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http://www.allbolly wood.com/ v2/bd/stc/ nws/2007/ 4/26/23566. shtml

Aishwarya Rai No More
By Krishna Jewel, AllBollywood. com Staff
Ever since Aishwarya Rai married Abhishek Bachchan last weekend, all
have pondered and speculated what surname she would choose to use.

Well, wonder no more...reports are that Ash has decided.

The newest member of the Bachchan household will take her new
husband's name - becoming Aishwarya Bachchan, said her father-in-
law, Amitabh Bachchan.

As a matter of fact, Ash has already signed an autograph as
Aishwarya Bachchan, Big B said in an interview to a daily published
on Thursday.

"She desires to use Bachchan as her surname," Bachchan said.

Bachchan also stated that the new couple would move in with him and
his wife rather than a home of their own.

"This decision came voluntarily from Abhishek and Aishwarya,"
Bachchan said.

As for his daughter-in- law's film career, Bachchan expressed that he
hopes she'll continue acting.

"Jaya and I have insisted that Aishwarya must continue with her
acting career," Bachchan said. "There is no problem or issue with
us."

Bachchan also denied reports that photos or film footage of the
wedding have been sold to anyone.

"No such offer has come and even if it did, we would reject it,"
Bachchan said.

kishore

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'I am now looking forward to spending time with bahurani'
Mohua Chatterjee and Mahendra Kumar Singh
[26 Apr, 2007 l 0109 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK]

CANDID CONFESSION: We never kept anything under wraps. The day
Abhishek informed me that he had proposed, we went across to meet
Aishwarya's family to confirm the union, says Big B (TOI Photo)

The wedding aroused intense curiosity but was scrupulously kept away
from public gaze. Now, for the first time, Amitabh Bachchan tells
TOI's Mohua Chatterjee and Mahendra Kumar Singh about the joy,
emotions and frustrations that came with the Abhiash wedding.

Now that Abhishek and Aishwarya are married, can you tell us why it
was the news of the wedding kept under wraps until Jaya Bachchan
confirmed it on the Filmfare night?

We never kept anything under wraps. The day Abhishek informed me
that he had proposed, we went across to meet Aishwarya's family to
confirm the union. This was confirmed to the media by me personally.
The date of marriage took time because many things were under
consideration. An auspicious date, availability of all concerned —
Abhishek and Aishwarya were tremendously busy and in between
shooting schedules, as was yours truly. Jaya was busy with
Parliament and UP elections as was Amar Singhji — that had to be
taken into consideration. Then the extent of the marriage. The
guests, the location, the numbers, who to invite and how. And most
importantly, how to execute all this with the sensitive issue of my
mother lying critically ill in hospital.

Well, are you happy now?

I am grateful to the almighty that everything went off well. We had
desired an intimate occasion with relatives and close friends. We
had desired a common invitation card, a common venue, common mutual
friends, certain sanctity, which all such occasions demand, and we
got all of that. It is not easy to conduct the happiest moment in
the lives of two people joining in holy and everlasting matrimony
without continuously thinking and worrying on my mother's condition,
who is lying critically ill in hospital. So you visit the hospital
in the course of the day and see your mother, the epitome of beauty
and vibrant energy, lying listless, still, gaunt, a sheer frame of
bones, not able to communicate or see or recognise anything or
anyone, not able to move a limb, fed by a tube which punctures her
stomach, to not be able to hear or respond to her son calling out to
her.

And you just stand there by her bedside, helpless and frustrated and
you walk out of the hospital, switch your mood diametrically to
laughter and gaiety and happiness, for the joy that a son's marriage
would bring to any father in the world to get involved and busy in
arranging moments of fun for the happiest and most important day in
his son's life. It's abnormal and it's tough and it takes everything
to be able to accomplish that with some amount of respect, dignity
and resolve. I never wanted to talk about this but I guess you have
caught me in an emotional moment and I shall succumb to it, knowing
full well that this shall be publicly consumed, perhaps without
empathy.

This was easily the most talked about wedding in recent times. How
did you feel about the way it played out in the media?

I will not comment on the media attention. But I will say a few
things. I, nor any other immediate family member ever asked for
media attention. We kept it personal and private. By continuously
writing about it, the media made it nauseatingly public. Not a
single detail carried had any endorsement from either family of its
authenticity. This is not the media's wedding, it is my son's and it
is my private affair. On the night of the wedding, Abhishek and
Aishwarya wanted to seek my mother's blessings. They were chased and
hounded and virtually made captive inside their car at the hospital
premises and were unable to come out of it. They had to forgo that
moment and left without being able to take the blessings of my
mother by touching her feet.

At the time of the bidai, we were running against time. Aishwarya
had to step into the house, auspiciously, before sunset. A cruel
traffic jam on the highway delayed us. There was another emergency
in the car — Amar Singhji took seriously ill. As we neared
Prateeksha, photographers mobbed us, stood in front of the car,
preventing its movement. In the scuffle that followed with the
security, there were unfortunate injuries. I regret that this
happened. I have, with folded hands, apologised on behalf of my
security to the media. The security involved in the incident was not
my personal hired security. Still, they threw stones at my house,
they abused me through slogans outside my house throughout the
night. I have done whatever best we could do in these circumstances,
with utmost dignity. If that is still an issue with the media, I am
sorry I cannot do more. I read today that despite all this, they
wish to boycott me and my family. What can I say, it's a free
country, everyone has the freedom of his or her rights. I shall
respect their decision. Me and my family are not worth it in any
case.

Why was the wedding kept such a low key affair when public interest
in it was obvious?

My mother's critical condition.

Your marriage was also a private affair?

Yes, that's the way Jaya and I wanted it. Abhishek and Aishwarya
left it to our discretion and decision how the wedding was to be
conducted.

There is a buzz that the exclusive world rights of the marriage
visuals have been acquired by a foreign magazine? Do you plan to
release them?

This is false and incorrect. No such offer has come and even if it
did, we would reject it.

There must be considerable heartburn among fellow actors and others
in the industry over the restricted invite list...

We did what we felt right under the circumstance. If they understand
it, fine. If they do not, it's also fine — they were never friends
in the first place then.

Would you like Aishwarya to continue with her acting career?

Yes, no problem or issue from us. In fact, Jaya and I have insisted
on Aishwarya that she must.

Will the newly-wed couple move out into their own apartment or
continue to live with you?

They will live with us. And this decision came voluntarily from both
Abhishek and Aishwarya.

How will you feel if she continues to use her maiden surname?

She desires to use Bachchan as her surname. And she signed her first
autograph in Tirupati as Aishwarya Bachchan.

There is a lot of curiosity about the rituals that were followed.
Was it a mixed affair? Your marriage was also a cross-cultural
affair.

The marriage rites were held according to the bride's desire, in
their culture, through their pandits, with their rituals. One pundit
did it. One from our side gave the couple blessings after the formal
rituals were over. Yes, my marriage was cross-cultural. As a family,
my father never believed in caste or cultures. He, a Kayasth,
married a Sikh in 1942. I married a Bengali, my brother Ajitabh
married a Sindhi, my daughter married a Punjabi, and now my son a
south Indian.

Were you really concerned about her being a Manglik?

I do not know what a Manglik is or means, or whether I need to be
concerned about it. To me, when two individuals make up their mind
to marry, that's all that matters.

Just before he proposed to Aishwarya, Abhishek along with you and
Jayaji had walked all the way to Siddhivinayak temple to seek the
blessings of Ganpati. After marriage, the first thing that the
family did was to visit Tirupati to seek the blessings of Balaji.
You also offered prayers at Varanasi's Vishwanath temple and at
Vindhyachal. Is any of these your family deity?

I do not know what is the meaning of a `family deity'. I and my
family respect all faiths and religions. My father habitually built
little handmade temples in every house we lived in. Apart from
temples, I regularly visit the Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai. We have
been to all the temples you mention but the reasons given and their
timings are all wrong. We walked to Siddhivinayak because we felt
like going there, we have done it before on several occasions. We
went to Tirupati, twice recently within a week. Varanasi was to
offer prayers on my father's birth anniversary on November 27. We
have been holding a kavi sammelan in Lucknow on that day since his
passing away. Last year we could not hold a celebration because my
mother was in hospital, so Jaya suggested that it would be nice if
all of us went to Varanasi to pray instead. So we all got together
there. Aishwarya, in Delhi then, expressed a desire to visit the
temple. So we took her along — not for some Manglik puja as
incorrectly reported. Vindhyachal is the temple where Amar Singhji's
children had their `mundan' ceremony and it is sacred to him. Yes,
Aishwarya went too because by then the engagement was announced and
she had become family. The `sindoor in the maang' speculation was
wrong again. It was a tika from the temple. But yes, the sindoor
from the deity there is considered sacred and we did bring some for
the wedding. Abhishek put that sindoor in her maang.

Now that the wedding is done, what are you looking forward to?

The extreme joy of coming back home from work to spend time with my
bahurani.

mohua.chatterjee@ timesgroup. com

mahendra.singh@ timesgroup. com

kishore

Apparently, there were 11 pandits at the wedding.

Also, it appeared that the wedding had a strong sense of Bunt -- the community to which Ash belongs -- traditions.

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Abhishek Bachchan, wearing a beautiful jewel-studded sehera, enters Prateeksha, where his bride--to-be awaits.

The 31-year-old actor arrived in a well-decorated white horse, while the baraat came in seven Volvos