…random men everywhere who aren’t Aish/Bips/Shabana-devotees gnash their teeth and shake their fists at the sky impotently. Or not.
Oooooh, DRAMA! An anonymous tipster leaves juicy news on the…well, news tab (via SAWF):
Bollywood star Rani Mukerhee, 29, is all set to marry film maker Aditya Chopra, 36, son of Yash Raj Chopra. A commitment ceremony or “Roka” was held Monday at the Chopra bungalow in Bombay.
A source close to the family told the Hindustan Times: “The roka took place at the same Chopra bungalow where Chandni was shot. Around 60 people (family and friends) attended the ceremony that included Rani’s parents Ram and Krishna Mukherjee, brother Raja and his wife. Present from the Chopra clan were brother Uday, dad Yash Chopra and mum Pamela Chopra.”
Awww, that’s so cute! My last two german shepherds, who were litter-mates, were also named Raja and Rani. And no, I didn’t name them, so shut up.
“Rani wore a maroon saari with silver embroidery and Aditya wore a kurta-pyjama, both designed by designer Pallavi Jaikishan. Pam aunty didn’t seem very happy, as she has a soft corner for Adi’s ex-wife, Payal. Another function will take place at Rani’s house next week,” the source added.
Why do I care, when I am a clue-free Mallu ABCD who has gone on record as not paying attention to Bollywood? Because it’s JUICY. Duh.
Aditya was recently divorced from Payal Chopra, whom he married in 2001.
Ah, so THAT is why anonymous tipster namechecked Angelina Jolie! Apparently, Rani is a homewrecker, but my half- third- quarter-hearted googling found nothing. If the girl Big B got creepy with in KKKG really did break up this guy’s marriage, I’m sure one of you will edify us with confirmation of such sordid details.
According to the Mumbai Mirror, Aditya’s decision to divorce Payal, who is the daughter of a close friend of father Yash Raj, has strained relations between the father and son.
I can’t be the only one thinking…all this would make a great Bollywood movie? Life imitates art…? Annnnnd, I’m bored again. Who wants to talk about Obama, caste or saffron balls? Anyone?
Life imitates art – KANK.
saffron balls
Does Rani wear a vial of blood of any of her exes? Or french her brother? If she doesn’t, she’s no Jolie.
Google is filled with links to their affair….even though Aditya is much more of step down from Brad, than Rani is from Jolie.
http://passionforcinema.com/aditya-chopra-rani-mukherjee/ http://www.bollywoodmantra.com/1343_rani-and-aditya-chopras-secret-rendezvous.html
Did Rani get together with Aditya while he was divorcing Payal? If not, then she’s really not a homewrecker at all 🙂
I also agree that one must french their brother and wear a vial of blood to even be conversationally analogous to Angelina.
I don’t know about Rani, but if you want to talk about caste,
And in that photograph, are her eyes lighting up like saucers at the sight of that sweet, sweet moustache?
Sorry the link disappeared, but here is a caste related story
From what I heard she was dating Jr Bachhan but Big B never let it happen, for obvious reasons. Never heard of Aditya Chopra or his ex-wife associated with Rani’s name until today.
woah, she’s 29! i always thought she was 35 or older…
Didn’t MP-saab Govinda separate from his wife for a while to be with Ms. Mukherjee? Seems like someone has a thing for the taken man… cough cough Angelina
What are the obvious reasons?? 🙂
perhaps tattoos will get her into jolie’s league?
and she was subsequently not invited to the big wedding. (yes, i am big-time into bollywood gossip, but only because it’s far more entertaining than the movies themselves). but what re these obvious reasons?
Well apart from the ugly spectacle of BigB drooling big time over Aishwarya?
I don’t know what the other reasons are, but let me just say that Amitabh is a disgusting male chauvinist. And it bothers me tremendously that his adherence to troglodyte customs, superstitions, and practices is followed so closely by everybody, with nary a questioning remark in the press. Sorry for getting serious for a second, but this always gets under my skin.
As for Rani, she has a voice that sounds like it’s been subject to decades of Marlboros (Wills?) and Bud Lights, run over by a car, and then hung out to dry.
ak, I’m with you on the tattoos! Can’t believe I remembered the vial of blood but not the tattoos.
I want to know the obvious reasons! I have absolutely zero knowledge of Bollywood gossip, but this sounds funny.
Your just jealous! You can’t have her so ur eating sour grapez and stuff. LOL! Free Paris!
From what I heard she was dating Jr Bachhan but Big B never let it happen, for obvious reasons
Oh my. Sounds salacious. Tell me more!
what – that’s not sexy to you?
camille, i think it would be pretty cool if a desi actress was that into tattoos.
rahul, i did read an op-ed in a national newspaper about amitabh taking the country in a rather regressive direction. maybe it was a one-off thing, but even you must know how superstitious hindus can be.
Amen to that, Rahul. SRK has also gone on record in interviews several times about valuing his son more than his daughter and wife, etc., etc. Kind of amazing what politics are reflected among some of the most prevalent actors.
Agreed. 🙂 But they would also have to be cool tattoos — most of Angelina’s are cool, imo.
See, I don’t mind the people who are genuinely traditional/conservative (as much), what really angers me is hypocrisy. I lost all respect for him when I first learnt about the fact that he’d insisted Jaya stay in the kitchen right after marriage, but then philandered with Rekha. And with his mucking around with Rajiv and other politicians, playing all sorts of tax games despite his immense wealth, and also all his recent shenanigans with marrying Ash to a tree (or snake or whatever, I can’t keep track anymore), going around to astrologer after astrologer, and temple after temple, and his pretty pathetic drooling after Ash (which is what made him willing to do anything to get past the manglik crap), he’s done nothing to win it back. Other stars might be like him, but they are not as revered as he is, and I also think his behavior has been more egregious than others.
Did she have to marry more than one peepal tree?
It would be, if it spoke the words of Tom Waits.
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definitely. i’ve often thought of getting one myself, but fear that what looks cool to me now, is in reality uber cheesy. my best friend got a tweetie bird tattoo (bright yellow) when she was 16. enough said.
his most recent was fraudulently obtaining farmer status in two different states to hold land. in lucknow it was part of a government grant to poor villagers, so what pisses me off is that that land could have been allotted to somebody actually deserving of it.
Tattoo regret is not new.
yes, the NYT article is the most recent affirmation of my fear…
A friend of mine got a tattoo in Hawaii last year, as another customer was getting his removed. The other guy imparted one sage piece of advice based on his bitter experience: Never ever get a tattoo a girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse’s name.
btw, i find the name of this ceremony quite peculiar. i once asked one of my punjabi friends whether this meant what i thought it meant – to literally stop someone (from the hindi rokna)- and she said yes – it was to sort of put a ‘hold’ on the girl.
Doesn’t Sushmita Sen have some tattoos? She is the coolest among the current crop, in my opinion.
Coolest != Best actress, btw 🙂 Also, Google coughed this up.
seriously? i assume not seriously…
Are you asking if my not equals is not seriously? Too few negatives. NOT! I have no idea which direction your question was in.
Tattoos are taboo? I happen to have one (ok, three)…my mother chi-chi’d them, but I think they’re kinda cool.
I have to admit that I have been into Bollywood for quite some time and the fascination is starting to wear off. I feel as if I am finally waking up especially since I heard Shahrukh Khan will be endorsing a fairness cream for men. How disappointing, but it just goes to show how he will do anything for money. He doesn’t seem to care if he offends his dark skinned fans. Why would you endorse an alcoholic beverage and you claim you do not drink (Masterstroke)?
As for Rani, I believe she is into the fairness cream too. If this story is true it is quite sad. Couldn’t she get her own man? The only justice Aditya’s ex-wife will have is ‘what goes around comes around.’ Rani will get what is coming to her in the end.
With all do respect The Big B is a lying, greedy, land grabbing, … and I hope Mayawati continues to whip his ass!
OK…time for some gossip update. My Bro in law is a general manager of a 5 star hotel.., and its common knowledge that Amitabh Bachhan is a bigger womanizer than his son ever was. Another confirmed thingie is between Sushmita sen and the younger Ambani Brother. She’s his mistress, and has more property to her name than other top actresses combined. I would give her a pass…since she adopted an orphan, but……….such are ways of the desi glamour world. You gotta sleep with producers in order to make it. Another one that doesn’t have a good reputation among the hotelwalla’s is Preity Zinta. No wonder Maureen Wadia is putting her foot down on her son Ness’ engagement with Preity…(BTW Ness is Jinnah’s great grandson.)
oo..thanks for the juicy gossip Vic.
vic – that was awesome – way better than the usual gossip pages. your BIL should start his own blog. sen-ambani, eh? and all that property – i guess sush figured that it’s easier owning your own home than to be renting as a single female.
Well. Is nobody going to say anything good about Rani Mukherjee? Then I will – I like her, her acting, her voice, her hairstyle, her smile – everything. In fact, I think Manmohan Singh and Musharraf like her too. Probably one of the few things they can agree on 🙂
In a handshaking lineup in 2005, Mushy (and Begum Sehba) and MS, and a random male member of the entourage, to say nothing of the cameraperson – all have their eyes locked on her even while Mushy’s now shaking hands with the next person in line. She grins broadly, knowing just what’s happening.
I can’t believe “don’t get your significant other’s name as a tattoo” is breaking news.
Anyone else got a tattoo?
Back in 1995, I was talking to a non-brown friend of mine who happened to be a tattoo artist in Memphis, and told him I’d wanted to get a tattoo, and he asked me what I wanted to get. I told him, “A Ganesha, which is the Hindu god of auspicious beginnings–“
He cut me off. “How about you come by my studio next week?”
A week later, I walk into the studio (Underground Art, if you must know) and he shows me into a room…and there are…HUNDREDS of sketches of Ganesha on the wall. Ganeshas upon Ganeshas. My jaw dropped.
“How about that one?” he says, and it’s a green Ganesha with four tusks and slanted eyes with no pupils or irises, holding a ray-gun. Subtitle: Alien Ganesha. “Or that one!” and there’s a sketch of a very delicate Ganesha, his body colored as if made of butterfly wings.
No, no, no.
But clearly I’d come to the right place. I had a statue that I’d brought with me. He turned it into a sketch, and it was an incredibly accurate representation.
I’ve been wearing it on my back for 12 years now. No tattoo regret at all. It’s faded quite a bit, but it’s still a beautiful tattoo. Maybe one day I’ll get it touched up.
That was the year of the Milk Drinking Ganeshas.
Girlfriend is NOT 29. Definitely not.
And also the year A Perfect Ganesh premiered on Broadway….
Not that either explains why a tattoo artist in Memphis had thousands of Ganesha designs…
Oops. That was the Broadway Theater, Milwaukee. Still, off-off-Broadway.
I must remember not to be more careful posting on SM after my solitary beer 🙂
Another addition: you have to be bisexual to fit the Jolie analogy. Pity none of the desi actresses are that adventurous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Shimizu
Karthik @ 21 : yes, Ash married a peepal tree AND a banana tree. There is a joke possible here somewhere. Where is that Badava Rascal (TM) Rahul? 🙂
I think a good rule is to want the same tattoo (design) in the same location for 1-2 years before getting it. I have a (geologist) friend who has a beautiful compass rose on her upper back. She’s wanted it for years, and it fits her perfectly. Another bit of advice I’ve heard is not to pick your design from a book if you have something more specific in mind.
And the guy 🙂
Karthik : sorry, I misread your question. I read this story about Amitabh Bachchan and Sheila Jones. I don’t know if it is true, but it might be. With marriages, the Big B is supposed to be somethin’ else -> the obvious reason referred to?
Abhishek’s attitude is exactly similar to that of his father. Amitabh Bachchan too was seeing a model called Sheila Jones. One good day Bachchan casually drove her to the airport in a Fiat. Sheila was not at all aware of what was going to happen that night. Bachchan kissed her goodbye at the airport and returned home. He then dressed up well and went ahead for an important event. He was to get married to Jaya Bhaduri that evening. Sheila was shocked to see news of Bachchan’s marriage with pictures the next day in the newspapers.
Badava Rascal reporting. I was out drinking beers to salve the wound of Vic #34 demolishing two of my lovelies in one little post.
A small part of me feels that we shouldn’t have any form of tattoo removal (yes, this goes against all of my feelings towards personal choices, getting people out of your private business, etc). If you feel that having to ink something on your skin is that important (and hopefully you’ve thought about it long and hard), then you should just be able to deal with it indefinitely afterwards. This whole teenage craze with tattoos just mystifies me. Ugh, I hope this doesn’t make me a closet conservative.
It’s funny – at many clubs/bars I’ve been to lately, the patrons without visible tattoos were outnumbered by those that did (and I’m not talking about places like the Blue Oyster Bar either [not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that place, mind you]).
this is better than any gossip blog…but i have to ask too, what are the “obvious reasons” rani wasn’t allowed to marry abhishek? i saw some reference to it in one of the articles i read. according to a lot of the sources, aditya chopra and rani have been together for some time. any other juicy gossip? do tell!
The question is, whom does she rent to?