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Sweetshop owner to take laddoos for Abhi-Aish wedding Kanpur, April. 15 (PTI): The Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai wedding might be a quiet affair, but a sweetshop owner here is planning to present his famous 'laddoos' to the couple, though uninvited. Prakash Pandey, the maker of Kanpur's famous 'Thaggu-ke-Laddoo', says he would carry fifty one kilograms of his laddoo to Mumbai for the wedding. He said some scenes in Abhishek-Rani Mukherjee starrer 'Bunty aur Babli' were shot near his shop, during which the actors tasted and appreciated the laddoos. They had even taken packed laddoos to Mumbai. Pandey said Abhishek called him 'Mama' (uncle) when he was here. "Since director of the film Shad Ali, who is the son of former MP and CPI(M) leader Subhashini Ali, used call me 'mama', Abhishek also called me 'mama'. So being his maternal uncle, I am fulfilling my responsibility by taking laddoos to Mumbai on April 17."

Asked if he got the invitation for the marriage, Pandey said he had been taking laddoos for them to Mumbai. "I am known to Amitabh and Abhishek and there is no problem." Pandey added that the laddoos he is planning to carry will be made of 'kajoo' (cashew nut) and 'badam' (almonds) and those who taste them once would remember it for ever.

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The Big Fat Ash-Abhishek wedding

With Abhi-Ash's not-so-ordinary wedding just around the corner, the buzz outside Prateeksha, the famous Bachchan residence, has reached a fever pitch. From excited fans to the media, everybody is snooping outside the main gate to get a glimpse of what's happening inside. Abhishek Bachchan, the scion of Bollywood's first family, and Aishwarya Rai, one of the most beautiful women in the world, who got engaged in January following the premiere of their film "Guru", are set to tie the knot in the presence of close family members and friends at the Bachchan bungalow in the posh locality of Juhu, Mumbai. No stone is being left unturned by the Bachchans for the upcoming nuptials. From the 16-page gold-embossed wedding card to the Z-grade security ring with 300 guards and rumoured swipe cards for entry, the minutiae of the celebrity event have plunged all into a tizzy. Though the April 20 wedding date has neither been confirmed nor denied by the two families concerned, ongoing hectic preparations are proof that the mega wedding is going to take place as scheduled. The two Bachchan bungalows - Prateeksha and Jalsa - now resemble well-guarded fortresses and workers can be seen constructing the mandap (dais) within the bungalow premises. The ceremonies are set to start from April 18 with mehndi (henna), followed by sangeet (music) the next day. According to reliable sources, a special kind of mehndi has been ordered for the ceremony, like the one brought by Liz Hurley for her marriage with Arun Nayar last month. Aishwarya will wear a traditional hand-embroidered sari with intricate gold work on her wedding day, said the actor's favorite designer in an interview published on Tuesday. Neeta Lulla said, she designed the sari and a red and gold embroidered flowing skirt and cropped blouse for the actor to wear at a "mehendi'' ceremony on Wednesday. In Indian weddings, mehendi, or henna, is applied in elaborate tattoos on the bride's hands and legs. Lulla told Mumbai-based newspaper that while she had designed some of Rai's outfits, the actor would also wear a sari created by famous Indian designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla. A red and blue air-conditioned tent with huge mirrors is being readied in a garden adjoining the Bachchan's suburban family home for what is billed as India's "wedding of the year.'' The sangeet preparations are apparently entrusted to Abhishek's sister Shweta Nanda. Shweta's friends are queuing up to her, as they want to perform to the song "Kajra-re" from "Bunty Aur Babli" for the ceremony.. Ace choreographer Sandeep Soparker has been roped in to teach dance steps to Abhishek's friends for the occasion Both Rai and Bachchan have been practicing a dance routine they plan to perform before a selected group of relatives and friends during a musical ceremony on Thursday, the daily said. Security has been beefed up to 'Z' grade and over 300 guards are deployed to tackle any eventuality, like gatecrashers or crazy fans breaking in. Rumour has it that the guests will have to use swipe cards for entry. Some last-minute invitees are being included in the guest list, this time from the bride's side. The wedding card along with boxes of cookies-chocolates is now being dashed off to the bride's filmmaker-friends along with a personal request from the bride to be, her mother or her secretary. The wedding is going to be a close-knit affair as Amitabh's mother Teji Bachchan is ailing. Invitees have been sworn to secrecy about the wedding details and also about the contents and look of the wedding card, the dress code etc. "The fact is every guest is under an unwritten oath of secrecy. We aren't even allowed to talk about the wedding among ourselves. I'm not even discussing it with my wife. We're being offered money by sections of the media to divulge details. One newspaper, which wanted to be shown the wedding card, even offered me the equivalent of what I make for five days of shooting. I naturally refused," said an invitee. Among those invited are director Yash Chopra, filmmaker Karan Johar, industrialist Anil Ambani and influential politician friends of the Bachchan family. "I have not been invited to the wedding. Regardless, I wish the couple best," Shah Rukh Khan told Mumbai tabloid . "The Bachchans have asked us to keep this wedding a private issue and therefore we are maintaining silence," said actor Suniel Shetty, who has been invited to the exclusive function. Media reports said that jewellery for the Ash had been specially brought from eastern Kolkata city, while henna used to decorate the bride's hands came from Rajasthan state. The bride will also receive famed silk saris from the city of Varanasi, in northern Uttar Pradesh state. The wedding card is embossed in gold and personally signed by the groom's father Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya's parents. Gregarious pals of the Bachchans, like Karan Johar, have retreated into a shell, pretending to be immersed in work or shooting to avoid talking about the wedding.

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they didnt invite srk wat the hell is that.that is why there wasnt anyone at wedding

'Bunt'y, baraatis & bhelpuri!

It's going to be a wedding of mixed customs for Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. The ceremony will begin with Bunt rituals, after which North Indian customs will prevail

Dil Mango More: Aishwarya Rai Ab Haldi Karo: Abhishek Bachchan

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan will be joined in holy matrimony today at Prateeksha. The time for the baraat is 4 pm, while the shubh mahurat for the wedding ceremony is 5.30 pm. According to an insider, the couple will have not one but two traditional rituals for their marriage. Adds our source, "Ash's mother, Vrinda Rai, has obtained traditional mango leaves from a district called Kasargod in Mangalore for a ritual from the bride's side. Ash will wear a kanjeevaram saree for this particular ceremony." Mixed customs The first ritual will begin with Bunt customs, a South Indian community to which Aishwarya belongs. However, a major chunk of the wedding and saat pheras will be according to North Indian customs. Another source adds, "Rituparno Ghosh (the Bengali director) and Jaya Bachchan have planned a Bengali style pooja that will be performed with Ash. It's a ritual done by the mother-in-law to welcome the bride into the family, by buying her a nova (a gold wrist band). Rituparno picked up the bracelet on Jaya's behalf. Indira Bhaduri, Jaya's mother, has also been buying sarees and other accessories for Ash." Amitabh and the other men in the family will be sporting traditional pink turbans. "They've called special people from Jaipur who are experts at tying turbans. The turbans will be worn mainly by the groom's family, as Ash's family is not North Indian." Like every North Indian wedding, Abhishek will also have to endure a haldi ceremony that will be performed at Prateeksha, hours before the actual mahurat.

Ex and the city Both of Aishwarya Rai's high profile former boyfriends, Salman Khan and Viveik Oberoi, left the city earlier this week. The actors have chosen to be out of Mumbai on the day she ties the knot with Abhishek Bachchan. Close friends of Salman reveal that he has "gone for personal work to Dubai." Khan's present girlfriend Katrina Kaif is also in Dubai shooting for Abbas Mastan's Race. Viveik Oberoi too headed to Dubai last week, after wrapping up the shoot for Sanjay Gupta's Shootout at Lokhandwala. He is currently visiting his ancestral home in Nampally (close to Chennai) and has been joined by his parents there. The Oberoi family is expected to return to Mumbai on April 22, two days after Ash's wedding, to celebrate the birthday of Viveik's mother Yashodhara. Post that, Viveik is expected to shoot for a music video for Akbar Khan's Fool And Final.

What Ash's mehendi function was like

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai

Thursrday was low-key at the Bachchan residence.

There was more action at Aishwarya's building, La Mer than at Bachchan houses Jalsa and Prateeksha. Thursday was the mehendi, which takes place at the bride's house. The mehendi was brought from the groom's house to the bride's. But first Aishwarya's brother, Aditya, his wife and mama brought the shagun to Abhishek's house.

Later Shweta Nanda, Abhishek's sister, applied mehendi on Abhishek's hand. Then Jaya Bachchan, Shweta Nanda and Amar Singh set off for Aishwarya's home with shagun, mehendi and haldi in a white Mercedes and a Volvo full of women.

For those of who don't know, 15 kg of henna was brought from Sojat, Rajasthan for the mehendi ceremony. Apparently this is the best mehendi available in India, which appears as a particular shade of maroon.

Sushmita arrives for Ash's mehndi

After some rituals at La Mer, the entourage returned to a small dinner function at Jalsa, attended by a few close friends like Sanjay Dutt, JP Dutta, Karan Johar, Kajol, and Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sons of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.

On Thursday, Prateeksha was cleaned up and the decorations removed from the gate -- making way for a new design for Friday's festivities. Around 50 huge bundles of orange and yellow marigolds arrived in a tempo for decorating the mandap, where the function will be held

Apparently, Aishwarya will move from La Mer to Prateeksha on Friday, while the Bachchans will go with the baraat from Jalsa to Prateeksha, where the grand wedding will take place at 5:30 pm.

Ash-Abhi wedding: The festivities start

he first day of the elaborate three-day wedding saw a lot of excitement at the Bachchan homes, Prateeksha and Jalsa, even as the Rai residence was relatively quiet.

Fans thronged the gates, hoping for a glimpse of their favourite stars, while the security worked twice as hard keeping people at bay. After a whole day of waiting, we were treated to a Mercedes, which drove up to Jalsa at about 5pm. Aishwarya Rai was rumoured to be in it.

The car stayed behind the gates of Jalsa for a few minutes, and then proceeded towards Prateeksha.

o will Ash arrive for her wedding in a doli (palanquin)?

Eyebrows were raised, as a silver doli was spotted at the Bachchan residence.

n elaborate chandelier made it way through the gates of Prateeksha.

As a worker commented, 'the wedding decor is grander than the Taj Mahal.'

Is this Ash-Abhishek's new home?

It is not known if this building on the left, NaiVedya, will be the home of the soon-to-be-wed Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, but there may be reason to believe it is.

NaiVedya, a rather old structure until three years ago, is undergoing brisk renovation.

Located at Carter Road in the suburban area of Bandra, Mumbai, the building is a 10-minute drive from Ash's current home on the 12th floor of the La Mer building, where Sachin Tendulkar also lives.

Bandra's Star Homes

When photographer Rajesh Karkera was about to shoot a picture of the building, the watchman said, "Please don't shoot a photograph; it does not belong to Abhishek Bachchan."

A strange comment considering we had not even asked who the building belonged to.

Further enquiries revealed the watchman was tired of answering questions if the building belonged to the Guru star. He indicated it was owned by someone settled abroad.

"I don't know who the owner is except that it is not Abhishek Bachchan," the watchman said.

Abhishek's parents Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan own two bungalows in Mumbai -- Prateeksha and Jalsa in the city's suburban Juhu area.

Abhishek arrives on horseback for wedding

After much partying, rituals and tradition, Abhishek Bachchan is finally getting ready to marry Aishwarya Rai at his father's home, Prateeksha.

The road outside his home is filled with fans, media and onlookers, as one of the biggest weddings this year is about to start in a few minutes.

Ash arrived with her mother Brinda at 2:10 pm, in a grey Mercedes car decorated wtih roses and white flowers. The car pulled right into Prateeksha and a posse of security guards surrounding the vehicle so that the media could not get a glimpse of the bride. Ash's brother Aditya followed in another car, while the rest of her family arrived in a Volvo.

Apparently, the bride has chosen a maroon Kangeevaram sari for her special day.

The bungalow has been decorated in South Indian fashion, with orange and yellow marigold flowers, and banana leaves and fruits. Ash, for those who don't know, hails from the Bunt community.

The Ash-Abhishek wedding

Amitabh Bachchan's close friend Amar Singh was among the first to arrive at Prateeksha. Other first arrivals were filmmakers J P Dutta (on the sets of whose film Umrao Jaan, Ash and Abhishek apparently fell in love) and Romesh Sharma (who directed Amitabh in Dil Jo Bhi Kahey), Shammi Kapoor and his wife, and Danny Denzongpa.

Band players, in white uniforms and colourful turbans, played loudly, while traffic outside the bungalow virtually came to a standstill. Later, dancers, dressed in traditional Punjabi wear, joined them, and danced as the Bachchans arrived at Prateeksha.

Abhishek, in a gold-embroidered white sherwani, made his way on horseback for a portion of the distance from Jalsa to Prateeksha. Shweta's son Agastya sat astride with him, while Amitabh, Jaya and Shweta danced to film songs like Kajra re and Aaj Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai.

Later, the Bachchan family got into a Volvo, and travelled the rest of the distance to Prateeksha in that.

The male members of the baraat like Sahara Group Chairman Subroto Roy, Ajay Devgan, A R Rahman, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Dutt and Abu Jaani wore orange turbans; while Anil Ambani wore a red one. Tina Ambani, Dimple Kapadia, Sonali Bendre and Shweta's mother-in-law Ritu Nanda also arrived in one of the buses.

Preity Zinta arrived with Ness Wadia.

Kajol, who seems to be close to the Bachchan family, arrived in a mehndi-coloured sari with a blue shimming border. Ashutosh Gowarikar, who is presently directing Ash in the historical Jodha Akbar, arrived with his wife Sunita.

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray arrived much later with his wife.

By the time the baraat had entered Prateeksha, the crowds went ballistic, and police were forced to raise their sticks to control the crowds.

Ram Gopal Varma was one of the first guests to exit.

Big fat Bachchan wedding --- hits controversy

May be 'TheBig B' feared controversy and hence made the wedding a very private affair and decided to keep the media at bay, but who can stop controversies when a girl slits her wrist for being dumped by 'Aby Baby' right in front of the doors of Prateeksha (Amitabh's Bungalow in Juhu, Mumbai) were the most talked about marriage of Abhi-Ash is going to take place on Friday. Jahnavi Kapoor – who played a small role in Abhishek-starrer Dus - claimed she had tried to commit suicide after hearing of the nuptial. The guest list for the evening includes vip's like Mulayam Singh, Amar Singh, Bal Thaceray , Anil Ambani, Subhroto Roy,Sanjay Dutt ,Ajay devgan and Kajol. Strict security Surveillance is observed by police and security guards deployed around the vicinity, so that everything goes smoothly. Grand arrangements have been made for the marriage. A media enclosure has been put up across the adjacent 10the Road and the adjoining lane has been closed for traffic. The last ceremony ahead of the wedding, the mehendi, was held at La Mer, Aishwarya's residence in Bandra on Thursday night.

Hot News: ABHISHEK AISHWARYA TO DANCE IN THEIR SANGEET

It takes two to tango and this time the two of them are Dulhe Miyan Abhishek Bachchan and Dulhaniya Aishwarya Rai.

The couple will perform a latino dance in their sangeet on the 18th of April. Currently the couple is busy with getting the steps right…Ahem Ahem!!

Among the other performers are some of the industry's best performers barring the Khans. An event which is going to capitalize the whole of Mumbai on the 20th of April