Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan has denied reports that his family performed religious ceremonies to lift a curse from the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai who is engaged to marry his son Abhishek Bachchan .
“Nothing like this ever took place,” Big B told this week’s edition of “The Week,” calling the widespread media accounts of the ceremonies “intrusive and insensitive.”
The marriage of 33-year-old former Miss World Ash and 31-year-old heartthrob Abhishek is expected to be Bollywood’s biggest wedding in years, but no official date has been announced.
Last November the family travelled with Ash to a temple on the banks of the sacred river Ganges in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi for what the media reported were prayers to clear up mismatches in their stars.
According to media reports, the Bachchans carried out the ceremonies to offset the curse of being a “manglik” hanging over the green-eyed Ash.
Pictures of Ash and the Bachchans emerging from the temple were widely splashed in the newspapers and one well-known astrologer, Chandrasghekar Swami, said he “had advised both the families to perform this corrective puja (prayer).”
Astrologers also said Ash might have to marry a tree or an idol of the Hindu God Vishnu to rid herself of her reputedly unlucky status.
Asked why he had not come out earlier with a denial of the ceremonies, 64-year-old Bachchan, replied his job was “to act and I guess I am doing fine.”
“I guess people still want to see me on screen and I am lucky that even at my age I get work.”
