The love story of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan was a simple one. For the former, it was love at first sight. The couple tied the knot on June 3, 1973, in Bombay. Though the couple’s wedding photos went viral, not many people knew about their private wedding ceremony, and even the neighbours were unaware of it. However, it was Harivansh Rai Bachchan, who once openly spoke about the details of Amitabh’s wedding and shared that Jaya Bachchan’s father was not happy with his daughter’s decision.
Amitabh Bachchan was only five cheap for his wedding with Jaya Bachchan
It seems the Bachchans love to keep their weddings private. Once, late poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan shared details about his son Amitabh Bachchan’s wedding in his autobiography titled Late afternoon. According to a report by Rediff, Harivansh Rai Bachchan revealed that the wedding was an intimate affair attended by only a handful of people.
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Harivansh Rai Bachchan also revealed that his son Amitabh cheap Only five people attended the wedding, two of whom were the poet and political leader Sanjay Gandhi himself. The wedding took place at the home of a friend of Amitabh and Jaya, on the top floor of the Skylark building in Malabar Hills. However, Jaya Bachchan’s family was not happy with the celebration.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan revealed that Jaya Bachchan’s family showed no signs of joy at the wedding
The famous poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan wrote in his book that Jaya’s family wanted a marriage according to Bengali tradition, to which the Bachchans never objected. He revealed that the first ritual was the var rises, In which Jaya Bachchan’s father visited Amitabh’s house with gifts and performed a small ceremony. Later, he did the same at the bride’s beach house. However, to Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s surprise, no one showed any trace of pleasure.
Amitabh Bachchan’s Haldi ceremony, which was a very secret event
In the same autobiography, Harivansh Rai Bachchan revealed that Amitabh haldi It was a very hush-hush affair. She revealed that not even the neighbours knew about Amitabh’s wedding and that the family had lied saying that the decorations were already ready and that the superstar had a photo shoot the next day.
She wrote: “When neighbours asked what the long strings of decorative bulbs meant, we explained that Amitabh would be shooting a film here the following night.”
Harivansh Rai Bachchan revealed the shocking words of Jaya Bachchan’s father
Harivansh Rai Bachchan further wrote in his autobiography that after the ceremony was over, he greeted his daughter-in-law, Jaya’s father, and congratulated him on having a son-in-law like Amitabh Bachchan. And while he was expecting similar words, Jaya’s father Taroon Kumar Bhaduri exclaimed, “My family is completely ruined.” The excerpt from the book reads as follows:
“Before we left, I hugged my new daughter-in-law’s father and congratulated him on having a son-in-law like Amit, expecting him to say the same about Jaya. But he said, ‘My family is completely ruined.’”
For the uninitiated, Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan have been together for 51 years. They are parents to Shweta Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, and are even the proud grandparents of Aaradhya Bachchan, Navya Nanda and Agastya Nanda.