my fufa (dad's sister's husband)...is the real grandson of Yash Chopra's eldest brother...so he is actually very close to all the chopras...
everyone knows yash chopra is from jallandhar...so is my family...my bua (dads sister) met my fufa in jallandhar...after marriage shes been to mumbai and lived at B.R chopra's house, as well as Yash chopra's house for few weeks...many times over the years...
she told me B.R chopras house is bigger and more tradional...and they are more of a "family"...they try to have dinner together as a family and are usually in contact with eachother...they have middle class values still...
yash chopra's family also have middle class values, because of their mother pamela...but they arent as close as B.R chopras family...she told me she was at their house for about 3 weeks...and in those 3 weeks she only saw uday 2-3 times...aditya maybe 4-5 times...this was during the time when aditya was still married to payal...she said payal was a very sweet girl...very close to pamela...
she told me how they have a theatre at their own house or something...or like behind their house...they occasionally invite friends over to watch movies...they also gamble alot...like, in crores...my fufa is a big time gambler because he grew up with them basically...
they had given my bua and her family 2 rooms to stay in (one for my cousins)...they had 3 personal servants just for themselves...and 2 drivers just for themselves...they were strictly told they had to be there for my bua and her family for the next 3 weeks...
so needless to say...shes met many stars...shes met madhuri too during some shooting long time back, im guessing during dil toh pagal hai, or before that...she told me about madhuris skin, how it isnt as clear as it looks onscreen..but shes really sweet and down to earth...always smiling... my buas seen alot more shooting...
then during veer-zaara shooting...me and my family happened to be in india on vacation, we were in punjab...and my fufa called saying how the chopras are shooting in punjab as well these days, if u guys have time, i will arrange a meeting...and the very next day we ended up on the sets of veer-zaara, in a village 3 hours away from jallandhar...we saw srk, preity, big b and hema...and ofcourse the chopra family minus uday...we saw them shoot 2 scenes as well...i asked for rani (i was her big fan then), but someone from the crew told me she was there earlier, but shes gone for the day now...oh yes manish malhotra was there too...my friend got his autograph on a napkin haha 😆
then it was lunch time...and pamela called us over and told us to have lunch with them...we all were abit reluctant at first saying no no its okay...we didnt want to seem like we were intruding in their personal stuff...but pamela insisted and pulled us over...she told us there are 2 different stalls...one for non-veg, and one for veg...she also informed us navratri was going on, so she would only be eating veg...we were surprised she followed it 😆...we all had veg food too...i think priety also took from the veg stall...but duno if she went to non-veg or not...preity was hanging around with everyone from the crew...talking and joking around with everyone...she acknowledged us too, but we werent those "crazy" fans who were asking for autographs and pics and whtnot...we just smiled at her, while sitting on our seats...she smiled back and continued being herself 😆
srk, big b and hema all got food in their vanity vans...
oh yes, payal was there as well...she was riding the tractor during break time...preity also joined her 😆
we wanted to meet srk...but they said we cant meet them on the shoot...we can come to the dinner at night and meet all of them there...but we werent gonna stay that late...we had to leave soon...
thats about it...😆 wow that was long...sorry 😳
Edited by mango-frost - 12 years ago
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