When Aishwarya Rai Bachchan called Rekha 'maa'! - Page 4

Originally posted by: grounder

From what I've seen of my South Indian friends, it is pretty common to refer to ladies (young and old) as maa. I mean you basically call a gal by her name and maa added to it. And sometimes when people have known each other for a while, during conversations they simply say maa to each other. I don't know how common it is. But knowing that both Rekha and Aishwarya have south Indian roots, maybe it is just Ash's way of talking to Rekha.

I mean we don't worry when everyone refers to Mithun as dada because that is the word for older brother (I guess) in Bengali.

Also, in one of their earlier interviews together, Rani kept referring to Ash as Aishu maa. This was of course when they were besties.

But well I could be wrong. Ash might actually indirectly be acknowledging Rekha's hidden relationship with Amitabh. That will be a very weird thing to do though.

The maa part is usually used by Kannadigas and its more 'Amma' than just 'maa', "Maa" is something I have only seen northies use. Here in south India, Its always amma for women of any age and usually used by men as a respectful way to address women but as am from the same place of south as Aishwariya, I can tell you that using maa here to address women isn't a common thing, especially in Ash's mother tongue, ie. Tulu, it's not used in that way at all.

Originally posted by: rimi2983

I don't remember anyone touching feet on stage except Vidya Balan.

Ash is not about spontaneity. She must have thought of touching feet and calling Rekha Maa to tease ever frowning real Maa Jaya😆. Happy new year Sasu maa😛

Can someone confirm which award took place first - This or Rekha-Jaya hugging?

@Bold - I remember DP touching Rekha ji's feet when she won best actress at filmfare

OT - I heard it too and was shocked for a moment 😆😆 n the camera zoomed into the same expression on AB's face 😆 It was weird n funny 😛

Originally posted by: -MariaMars-

@Bold - I remember DP touching Rekha ji's feet when she won best actress at filmfare

OT - I heard it too and was shocked for a moment 😆😆 n the camera zoomed into the same expression on AB's face 😆 It was weird n funny 😛

Touching an elder's feet is a common Indian gesture of showing respect, isn't it?
I find only the "Maa" part weird... I would have liked to see BIgB and Jaya's face when this happened. 😆
Sasuma must have been maan hi maan cursing 😆

@Rinnie - Yes it's a common gesture and i wasn't surprised by it.. Just quoted that part since the member told hadn't seen anyone else apart from VB do it on stage.

n ya the Maa part was so weird.. Wish they showed the reaction of AB n jaya 😆

Originally posted by: -MariaMars-

@Rinnie - Yes it's a common gesture and i wasn't surprised by it.. Just quoted that part since the member told hadn't seen anyone else apart from VB do it on stage.

n ya the Maa part was so weird.. Wish they showed the reaction of AB n jaya 😆

They should have zoomed in on AB rather than JuniorB 😆
I guess they didn't wanna risk the Bachchan wrath later on.

Seriously? Didn't refrred her as "MAM" freaking 2rs media!

Yes, I heard it right then, and silly me, I was trying to reason that it must be ma'am and I might have heard it wrong.

Where did you guys watch this? Can someone please share the link of the video? Thanks!

Originally posted by: Piyatrix

Choti Maa

Bahurani ash lol gadbad kar di .