Abhishek-Ash: A Strategic Alliance??? - Page 17

Created

Last reply

Replies

187

Views

9.3k

Users

32

Likes

1

Frequent Posters

chatbuster thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: raunaq



i was just looking at the same picture somewhere else, and i was so shocked, what happened to his look and whats wrong with him? 😆 😆 😆 i can't believe i fell for this guy 😭

haha, now i could always say "i told you so", but wont😛😆

waise, kitna kaha thha, naheen? kitna samjhaya bhee thha kee aur kitne ache options hain. par kisi ne baat naheen mani. sab behkee behkee baatein kar rahee thheen. ab dekh lo.😆

chatbuster thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: raunaq



😆 😆 😆 neetu i am very disappointed, my friend who admired abhishek gave up on him right after she found out he is marrying ash 🤢 🤢 🤢 but i still had some hope for him, but this picture is so cheap 🤢 🤢 🤢 is this the way he is carrying himself on his wedding day, the new look doesnt suit him at all 🤢 🤢 🤢

haan dekho. kal ek ke peeche, aaj kisi aur ke. yeh ladkiyan bhee😆

raunaq thumbnail
18th Anniversary Thumbnail Sparkler Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: Dabulls23


🤣Sure does look like that 🤣



with this new look he seems to be gullu's brother 🤢 🤢 🤢 qt, go ahead, take him, apna john chalega 😆 😆 😆
raunaq thumbnail
18th Anniversary Thumbnail Sparkler Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: chatbuster


haha, now icould always say "i told you so", but wont😛😆


waise, kitna kaha thha, naheen? kitna samjhaya bhee thha kee aur kitne ache options hain. par kisi ne baat naheen mani. sab behkee behkee baatein kar rahee thheen. ab dekh lo.😆





maaf karna, options kaun kaun se diye they aur kab?
mermaid_QT thumbnail
20th Anniversary Thumbnail Sparkler Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: mermaid_QT

really grosss manish.. so cheapp.... ewww
with all those men online and RL that I fought with for abhishek, .. my sincere apologies for a life-timee 😉



@ CB- Yeh nahee paddhaa?? Sorry bola thaa right away !!

Originally posted by: chatbuster

haha, now i could always say "i told you so", but wont😛😆

waise, kitna kaha thha, naheen? kitna samjhaya bhee thha kee aur kitne ache options hain. par kisi ne baat naheen mani. sab behkee behkee baatein kar rahee thheen. ab dekh lo.😆

@ CB - , chaliye ab bakee option bataiye, photo ke saath 😉 ! We need options for me, Raunaq, Mythili, Raksha and Priya I think 😆
Edited by mermaid_QT - 18 years ago
S a r a h thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail + 2
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: mermaid_QT

i pity myself for liking this- and that too not so long ago .. This is dulha's expression?? 😲 in his baaraat??
🤢

I am sorry of this is inapproriate but i cannot justify that expression.. Bye bye baby bachchan..



😉

QueTee ji ^^ is the effect & result of excessive exercise for his mobile phone advertisement😆😆😆

chatbuster thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: raunaq



maaf karna, options kaun kaun se diye they aur kab?

arre yaar. options kee koi kami hai? ab toh cloning ka zamana bhee aa gaya. made-to-order brad pitt se lekar john abraham aur arjun rampal tak mil sakta hai. 😆

yeh QTji ko bhee bata dein toh badi meherbani hogi😆

Edited by chatbuster - 18 years ago
uknaik99 thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail + 2
Posted: 18 years ago
Here is a article from Hindustantimes

The tamasha surrounding the marriage of Abhishek with Aishwarya Rai over the weekend appears to lend credence to the speculation that the Bachchans are dying to become the first family of India. The hype about the "most public private wedding" became overkill and showed the bankruptcy of the media as well as the control that marketing gurus have apparently managed to have over every single dimension of the media. The show put out for fans underlined the fact that Bachchans behaved as if they were shooting yet another film. The sanctity one would have normally attached with the actual wedding ceremony was put in the background.

It is a known fact that the Bachchans, who always lived in the shadow of the Nehru-Gandhis, are keen to break away and establish themselves as the new icons of India. There is nothing wrong in aspiring to be Family No. 1, except that the road to the top has to be through the service of the nation and not by lending one's name to each and every brand that comes in the way. Amitabh's name has figured prominently in the speculation over who could be the country's next President, something that has been firmly denied by him and his close associates. Perhaps, he realises that to get anywhere near the august office, he will have to get support from many major parties other than the Samajwadi Party.

Bachchan has come a long way since he carried two letters written by Indira Gandhi, on persistent requests from family friend Teji Bachchan, to Nargis Dutt and Khawaja Ahmed Abbas urging them to give him a break in films. Abbas cast him in Saat Hindustani and Nargis asked her husband Sunil Dutt to help him out. Recalling his first meeting, Dutt told me some years ago that when Amitabh met him, he asked what his greatest asset was. "My voice," the young man had answered, at which point Dutt told him that he would cast him in the role of a 'goonga' in his film, Reshma Aur Shera. Bachchan was, however, first noticed in Anand and subsequently starred in many films which turned out to be flops. Blitz columnist Krishna used to repeatedly refer to Amitabh as the "Sarkari-made hero". But with Prakash Mehra's Zanjeer, there was no looking back for the 'Angry Young Man'.

But there is another sphere in which Bachchan does not exactly shine: politics. Old timers in the Congress recall that before her death, Indira Gandhi had advised Rajiv that he should never allow "Teji's son to enter politics". Indira Gandhi's advice was probably based on her experience. But Rajiv, who grew up playing with Amitabh, gave him the Congress nomination from Allahabad against H.N. Bahuguna after his mother's assassination.

Amitabh won the seat convincingly and soon became a power centre within the Congress. But he appeared to have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. V.P. Singh, for instance, constantly complained against him to Rajiv. Matters came to a head and a reluctant Bachchan resigned after a long meeting with Rajiv. Subsequently, his name (and that of his brother) was also dragged in the Bofors controversy. But nothing could be proved against him or Rajiv. Amitabh swore he would never be in politics again.

But the promise appears to have been shortlived now that he has got drawn into the glamour of politics once again through his close association with Mulayam Singh Yadav, an opponent of the Gandhi family. At one stage, wife Jaya made uncharitable remarks against Sonia Gandhi that a worried Amitabh tried to play down. After legendary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan died, Rahul Gandhi represented his family at the funeral. But now the break seems to be complete with the Gandhis excluded from the wedding guest list.

Big B has become the Bad B for the Congress, campaigning as he is on TV for his friend Mulayam. Jaya is already an MP on the Samajwadi ticket. It is a matter of time till even Amitabh could be on the political centre stage in some form or the other. It is evident that he may come on the Congress radar very soon and the political rivalry may commence from where political friendship ended many years ago.

Coming back to the Abhishek-Aishwarya wedding, not one known literary figure was invited to the marriage of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's grandson. The disaffection was pronounced as the Bachchans owe their identity to the Hindi language and the recognition the literary world accorded to the family. It is being pointed out that the wedding had a guest list that, among others, included fixers and the like, while it ignored members of the literary circle. There is also criticism that the Bachchans, synonymous with class at one stage, have allowed their thirst for undue publicity to get the better of them. "The wedding should have been a sombre affair. Look at the dignified way with which Mukesh Ambani celebrated his birthday," a once close friend remarked.

The show must go on and even an offering to Tirupati was made a public event. But despite the media, the Bachchans will have to do a lot more if they want to become the first family of India.


mittijalebi thumbnail
19th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago
oh god, someone took a pic when he wasn't looking and its a big deal. 🤢
blyton thumbnail
20th Anniversary Thumbnail Rocker Thumbnail Commentator Level 1 Thumbnail
Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: uknaik99

Here is a article from Hindustantimes

The tamasha surrounding the marriage of Abhishek with Aishwarya Rai over the weekend appears to lend credence to the speculation that the Bachchans are dying to become the first family of India. The hype about the "most public private wedding" became overkill and showed the bankruptcy of the media as well as the control that marketing gurus have apparently managed to have over every single dimension of the media. The show put out for fans underlined the fact that Bachchans behaved as if they were shooting yet another film. The sanctity one would have normally attached with the actual wedding ceremony was put in the background.

It is a known fact that the Bachchans, who always lived in the shadow of the Nehru-Gandhis, are keen to break away and establish themselves as the new icons of India. There is nothing wrong in aspiring to be Family No. 1, except that the road to the top has to be through the service of the nation and not by lending one's name to each and every brand that comes in the way. Amitabh's name has figured prominently in the speculation over who could be the country's next President, something that has been firmly denied by him and his close associates. Perhaps, he realises that to get anywhere near the august office, he will have to get support from many major parties other than the Samajwadi Party.

Bachchan has come a long way since he carried two letters written by Indira Gandhi, on persistent requests from family friend Teji Bachchan, to Nargis Dutt and Khawaja Ahmed Abbas urging them to give him a break in films. Abbas cast him in Saat Hindustani and Nargis asked her husband Sunil Dutt to help him out. Recalling his first meeting, Dutt told me some years ago that when Amitabh met him, he asked what his greatest asset was. "My voice," the young man had answered, at which point Dutt told him that he would cast him in the role of a 'goonga' in his film, Reshma Aur Shera. Bachchan was, however, first noticed in Anand and subsequently starred in many films which turned out to be flops. Blitz columnist Krishna used to repeatedly refer to Amitabh as the "Sarkari-made hero". But with Prakash Mehra's Zanjeer, there was no looking back for the 'Angry Young Man'.

But there is another sphere in which Bachchan does not exactly shine: politics. Old timers in the Congress recall that before her death, Indira Gandhi had advised Rajiv that he should never allow "Teji's son to enter politics". Indira Gandhi's advice was probably based on her experience. But Rajiv, who grew up playing with Amitabh, gave him the Congress nomination from Allahabad against H.N. Bahuguna after his mother's assassination.

Amitabh won the seat convincingly and soon became a power centre within the Congress. But he appeared to have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. V.P. Singh, for instance, constantly complained against him to Rajiv. Matters came to a head and a reluctant Bachchan resigned after a long meeting with Rajiv. Subsequently, his name (and that of his brother) was also dragged in the Bofors controversy. But nothing could be proved against him or Rajiv. Amitabh swore he would never be in politics again.

But the promise appears to have been shortlived now that he has got drawn into the glamour of politics once again through his close association with Mulayam Singh Yadav, an opponent of the Gandhi family. At one stage, wife Jaya made uncharitable remarks against Sonia Gandhi that a worried Amitabh tried to play down. After legendary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan died, Rahul Gandhi represented his family at the funeral. But now the break seems to be complete with the Gandhis excluded from the wedding guest list.

Big B has become the Bad B for the Congress, campaigning as he is on TV for his friend Mulayam. Jaya is already an MP on the Samajwadi ticket. It is a matter of time till even Amitabh could be on the political centre stage in some form or the other. It is evident that he may come on the Congress radar very soon and the political rivalry may commence from where political friendship ended many years ago.

Coming back to the Abhishek-Aishwarya wedding, not one known literary figure was invited to the marriage of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's grandson. The disaffection was pronounced as the Bachchans owe their identity to the Hindi language and the recognition the literary world accorded to the family. It is being pointed out that the wedding had a guest list that, among others, included fixers and the like, while it ignored members of the literary circle. There is also criticism that the Bachchans, synonymous with class at one stage, have allowed their thirst for undue publicity to get the better of them. "The wedding should have been a sombre affair. Look at the dignified way with which Mukesh Ambani celebrated his birthday," a once close friend remarked.

The show must go on and even an offering to Tirupati was made a public event. But despite the media, the Bachchans will have to do a lot more if they want to become the first family of India.


👏 Now that sums why I started this topic in the first place....before it became a chat thread.😭

Related Topics

Top

Stay Connected with IndiaForums!

Be the first to know about the latest news, updates, and exclusive content.

Add to Home Screen!

Install this web app on your iPhone for the best experience. It's easy, just tap and then "Add to Home Screen".