Bachchan denies ceremony to rid Aishwarya of curse
27 March 2007 | Actress | No Comments
Amitabh Bachchan has denied reports that his family performed Hindu religious ceremonies to lift a curse from Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai who is engaged to marry his son. "Nothing like this ever took place," the actor told this week's edition of the Indian magazine "The Week," calling the widespread media accounts of the ceremonies "intrusive and insensitive." …
Last November the family travelled with Rai to a temple on the banks of the sacred river Ganges in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi for what the Indian media reported were prayers to clear up mismatches in their stars. The Bachchans — known as the first family of Bollywood for their dominance of the entertainment industry — held the ceremonies to offset the curse of being a "manglik" hanging over the green-eyed Rai, according to media reports.
Being as a "manglik" is determined by where Mars falls in a person's horoscope and anyone marrying one could fall ill and die prematurely, say astrologers who play a huge role in everyday lives of Indians. Pictures of Rai and the Bachchans emerging from the temple were splashed in Indian newspapers and one well-known astrologer, Chandrasghekar Swami, said he had "advised both the families to perform this corrective puja (prayer)." …
Asked why he had not come out earlier with a denial, Bachchan, 64, a prolific actor known simply as the "Big B" to legions of fans in the movie-mad nation, replied his job was "to act and I guess I am doing fine." "I am happy and lucky that even at my age I get work," said Bachchan, whose latest film "Nishabd" (Silence) is about an elderly man's compulsive love for a teenage girl and has drawn parallels with Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel "Lolita." ….read more
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