The Abhi-Ash Syndrome

[deelight]

The  saccharin sweet story of the Knight in Shining Armour and the Princess of Bollywood is getting me quite queasy.

What's worse is that everything about this Ace wedding is so annoyingly traditional and steretypical that it makes me cringe.
One would think that the Bachchans would be a progressive and liberal but of course that's far from the truth

Comments

[deelight]

I'm sorry to put you through this since so many of you are unaware of this marriage overload. One tight slap is what they need. Hehehehe! That was funny.

[splitpeasoup]

I can't believe you didn't know this already! Whatever happened to the Queen Of Pop Culture? :-)

[quizling]

As with the recently concluded World Cup (or is it still on?) I have decided to simply ignore the Bachchan brouhaha. It's not too difficult -- a lack of interest in the event means I can flip pages or switch channels without being drawn in out of morbid curiosity.

But this tree-marrying thing does interest me, I'll admit. It's easy enough to talk of preserving our hoary traditions and how such things are a purely personal faith, but I disagree. If you are a much-loved public figure, you are expected to be a role model. Washing one's regressive spiritual linen in public is not a happy way to go about it.

It's sad to see Amitabh Bachchan regularly donating crores to the temple at Tirupati -- an institution that's filthy rich -- while doing next to nothing for (say) the street children of Bombay. It reveals how Indian notions of spirituality are based on innate selfishness.

[quizling]

Oh, perfectly valid. But then let's have the good sense not try and deify them please.

[enigmaticash]

ash is in "luv" with abhi so females in "luv" are reday to od anything ofr the guy. But i wonder if abho would have done all those for her. But again i guess its all to show off and ppl might be more liberal indreneath , its just to please majority of junta in india who still have back ward thinking ( many families in US still does so) clebrity or not wen it comes to trouble others we indias are no less, we woudl do naything to trouble d-I-L and others around. for all that u know :P abhi might start staying seperately with ash they might go abraod often etc etc :P to getaway from M-I-L :P again everythng is for publicity

[shri]

In this whole saga, Ash being manglik and the measures to which the Bachchan family has gone to avoid the 'Mangal' wrath is what has amused me the most. Being a manglik myself, neither my family nor my in-laws ever pressurised me or asked me to do all this religious hotch-potch. Hence, all these measures undertaken by the Bachchan family amuses me and disgusts me at the same time.

Jeez, it is so damn silly! I am also tired of all this publicity that their impending marriage is getting and just wish the marriage would be done and over with.

[on9thheaven]

LOL - exactly my thots. Being a "slight" mangalik myself, we never gave it another thought though my ILs are extremely religious, yada yada yada...

Thankfully in part of the world, all this hungama is not making any news!

[deelight]

I'm supposedly a Manglik too and I'd tie someone to a tree if they as much as suggested something as ridiculous.

[rummyj]

all of this has completely flown under my radar over in this part of the world. thank goodness. ugh.

[deelight]

Maybe Canada is the place to run to for cover.