The Bachchan's cold shoulder towards Aishwarya Rai - Page 4

Originally posted by: FingerFetish

He doesn’t have sausage fingers, I can confirm. He can use that excuse to the world but not to me, never to me.

Thank goodness for your finger inspection skills. Abhi's going to have to find another excuse for his slipup😆

Also, I turned on my signature settings a couple of weeks ago. Your Bobby Deol covid gif cracks me up. I pause my scrolling to watch it every time😆

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais

This!

Shweta is known to be separated from her husband & mostly lives in Bbay with her parents. Though anyone with eyes, can see, Shweta & Jr are impeccably brought up & loved deeply, you can see how much Sr loves Shweta from just the way he looks at her, and while a brilliant actor, even he can’t fake this much, lol. But it’s always struck me as super regressive how they just got her married off at what? 21-23? She was too young & in Delhi socialite circles, there have always been super strong rumours that her husband is not… Straight. The poor lady was too young to know any better. Am so glad to see she’s living her life now I hope, the way she wants to.

Exactly which is what I mean she has no life left of her own beyond her kids. And yes it is the Bachchan’s backwards thinking to blame. My father would never think of marrying me against my will. Marrying someone off at 21 is wrong. I am not sure if she consented to it. It seems like she doesn’t have a personal life left besides kids. And despite trying she doesn’t have much of a professional life. It not too hard to understand why Jaya and Big B (even though I hate him) would feel overprotective of her. It is probably also a guilty conscience.

We feel for Aish. But as many have said she will always be a living legend. No one can take that away from her. And yes, one can argue she was blessed with a one in million face but she is self-made. She has a loyal husband. And to the contrary every picture I have seen Abhishek and Aishwarya look extremely happy together.

trying to be a fair as possible despite being an Aish fan this doesn’t excuse Shweta’s snooty attitude towards Aish. Every video I have seen it is always Shweta snubbing Aish. Unless someone can show me otherwise. No amount of pain excuses projection or jealousy towards others. And she does look insecure around Aish.

Originally posted by: WittyFlair

Also, I turned on my signature settings a couple of weeks ago. Your Bobby Deol covid gif cracks me up. I pause my scrolling to watch it every time😆

Oh thank you.

I also stop and watch it sometimes. 😆

Bachchans were regressive AF. They married off Shweta too soon, too young. Shweta also seems to have less self confidence and seems awkward and pauses a lot in public. In all interviews and stage appearances she seems to be meek, takes lot of pauses and time to speak and is even more nervous or reluctant when her parents are around her. This is what I felt in Rendezvous interview and that women's event with Barkha Dutt.

It ia good Bachchans stand by her, help her do some work or write book or publish column or show publicly how they stand with her. It is good Abhishek loves his sister so much.

Very few daughters get such support and that too from so called trad families like Bachchans.

But their failure to balance between DIL and daughter shows. And it is not right to isolate or ignore DIL and paternal grand daughter and they roam separately while maternal grand daughter and daughter are seen separately.

To be honest even Ash seems to cold shoulder them equally and hardly speaks about Navya or Shweta or her in laws and husband anymore. She is mostly with her mom and daughter.

I have not seen her at launch of Shweta's book or at KBC or in Navya's podcast yet.

Abhishek seems to be typical spineless man unable to do much or take stand for wife. He is too much of a papa's, mamma's boy and didi's bhaiya to ever get into such quarrels.

I definitely think their marriage was arranged and not a love marriage.

Jaya is regressive AF and earlier used to wear ghunghat or pallu or head covering herself in family pics. It is clear she had issues with Ash working or her status. I somehow feel even Shweta seems to blame Ash for trolling her brother gets online.

Big B was earlier seen with Ash in Kalyan ads or at Cannes but he seems to cold shoulder her as well now. Rarely talks about her in blogs or invites her to family specials on KBC. No more stage shows or concerts like Unforgettable tour.

I always felt Aishwarya's career and her earlier highly visible public life, go getter, achiever avatar was gonna be blunted after marriage in Bachchan household. Ash of 90s and 2000s was a different person compared to what she is now.

Robot is last film of Ash that Sr B promoted and probably that too because he is family friend of Rajinikanth. Otherwise I have not seen Bachchans promote her films or accompany her to Cannes anymore. They seem quite cold at award shows and parties, red carpets as well.

Ash may not like social media. But Amitabh and Abhishek do.

Why they never post about Ash's films? The way they attended book launch for Shweta's book or promote each other's films?

That is what makes people think about family dynamics.

Not even to cash on or boast of Bachchan brand, they talk of Ash's work.

Ash is not a stay at home mom either.

She has worked in ADHM, Sarabjit, Fanney Khan, PS1 and done ads, regularly attends Cannes.

She may have cut down on work but is not SAHM either.

You underestimate impact of regressive, dominating Bachchans, especially that aggressive MIL like Jaya.

You all talk as if Aishwarya is a disenfranchised woman without any choices. Yes, the bachchans snubbed her but she wields her own power. she is in her own secure space with her mom and daughter.

Abhishek should be a stay at home dad, and let Ash shine. He may actually gather more respect from the public if he does that.

Abhishek does not even have ONE movie where he carrier the film or did well. Ash has excelled in MANY movies.

Originally posted by: Lord_Voldemort

They are insecure of her.. ALL of them, and I include Abhishek in this. Initially I used to think he was not like AB Sr, Jaya and Shweta, but I later realized he too is like them. There are many instances where I observed this. Earlier he wasn't like this, the time he married Ash, he was pretty successful, so he used to really support Ash's success too - this was the time he would accompany Ash to international platforms like Cannes, Oprah show, Oscars etc.

But after Raavan bombed, I thought something changed in him. While Raavan flopped, its Tamil version starring Ash and Vikram was a hit. It was the ultimate rejection... that people didn't reject the content, they rejected him. And after that, he stopped being supportive to Ash.. he stopped going to Cannes (he wen to Cannes every year with Ash from 2007, 08, 09 and 10, and stopped going after the 2010, the year Raavan released).

Ash had got the ultimate offer to star opposite SRK in Happy New Year as her comeback film. Imagine that kind of commercial role in a potential blockbuster... but since Abhishek wasn't cast opposite her but SRK, he couldn't stand it and she had to lose that offer. Imagine, Abhishek was just playing a second fiddle and not even the lead role). This is not the first time something like this happened; she had to bow out of Dostana as well because of Abhishek.

Ash rejected the leading role in Hollywood hit Hancock opposite Will Smith because just before the film was about to roll, Abhishek's grandmother Teji Bachchan passed away. He never made such sacrifices for her though..

After Aaradhya was born, Ash stayed away from limelight for 5 years. Abhishek was already shooting for films in outdoor schedules when Aaradhya was all of 2 months old...

There are many more such examples I can give...

BOTTOM LINE: Ash is too good for Bachchans, but now with Aaradhya in her life, she is her ultimate priority and she doesn't give a fuck about their family.

They are typical sexist desi in laws.

I bet Ash getting more attention at Cannes when she went with AB, JB and Abhishek or western media recognising her more also pissed off Bachchans.

And the way some younger fans say casually that Amitabh is not known abroad (which is not true BTW) or that Bachchans became more known abroad, due to Ash, must have also pissed off the snooty seniors in family.

Ash has NO family like Ranveer and Deepika to gush about her success or take pride in having more successful, popular or elite clan wife and DIL. And the fact that Abhishek totally failed in profession also adds insult to injury. He is already burdened with comparisons with dad and mom. And now comparisons and expectations due to wife have also bogged him down further. Maybe Bachchans themselves want Ash to keep low profile or she herself does it on purpose to avoid burdening husband with comparisons to her.

Some comedians joking that Amitabh's biggest achievement in life was Aishwarya Rai or that Abhishek has no identity except wife and father, seem to have pissed off Bachchans more or put more pressure on Ash to dim her shine or step back.