Knot now, darling
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The buzz is that wedding bells are ringing for Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan. Not to forget history, is it one of those false alarms?
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ASH, ASH ABY Will life take a leaf out of art? Does it matter?
It is front-page news. The telly is going breathless over coverage and analyses. And no, it is not about a wall of water that brought death and destruction in its wake.
It is the news that beauty queen, the Miss Perfect Aishwarya Rai and the most eligible bachelor in tinsel town, Abhishek Bachchan are seeing each other.
How can it be, seems the collective moan as bloggers fiercely debate whether the pair are made for each other or whether the plastic Ash is all out to ruin Abhishek like she ruined the other men in her life like Salman Khan (who apparently used to physically and emotionally abuse her) and Viveik Oberoi.
Bloggers are horrified that she is older than him, insist that she is dating him only because he is successful.
Die-hard fans of Miss Perfect leap to the beauteous Rai's defence maintaining that she is successful in her own right and doesn't need to ride piggyback on someone else's success.
Rani Mukherjee and Abhishek make a better pair others wisely conclude. The surprise is that mainstream media, which seems more excited than the celebrity duo themselves, have consistently deemed it as worthy of Page 1. Didn't we think this was the kind of stuff one read in the gossip magazines at a beauty parlour while waiting for the henna to turn your hair red or for those dainty feet to soak in warm water for an indulgent pedicure? Curse, public memory! Blame it on one English daily that came and spoilt it all. Ever since news has turned into a commodity, and has morphed into entertainment, we have people breaking into the Big B's hospital room for an exclusive and hanging outside Karishma Kapoor's marriage reception and reading matters of national import in those that attended and those that stayed away. Not to forget the recent Aamir Khan's wedding.
Ash has a super smart person handling her PR. When you look at hard cold facts, after the horrendous Bride and Prejudice (October 2004), Ash has appeared on screen only in the hugely successful Kajra re item number in last year's Bunty Aur Babli. Apparently there were sparrings, but then there are also reports about how romance bloomed in dusty Jodhpur during the outdoor shoot of Umrao Jaan.
Whatever. The fact is though Ash has not appeared on screen, there is always some news about her including the little murmur about being the Bond girl. Ash is never available for comment and it is invariably someone close to her that inadvertently leaks out little nuggets of information. Now with her battered wife movie Provoked playing at Cannes, where Ash made the most hideous fashion faux pas earlier, one wonders if AB Jr. would be called upon to divert the flak quite like good puppy Viveik did those many moons ago.
If Ash is a smooth cookie orchestrating media frenzy about every non-event in her boring as hell life, we are also partly to blame.
As we want to know every dull, dreary thing about our celebrities to vicariously live a life less ordinary, they are just claiming their pound of flesh in return. Oh, for a reclusive Garbo who just wanted to be left alone!
MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
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