Superstar Amitabh Bachchan instantly fell in love with Jaya Bachchan, and they married on June 3, 1973, in Mumbai. Their wedding ceremony was so private that even their neighbors didn't know about it. However, their wedding pictures went viral and broke so many hearts.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father, once revealed that Jaya's father wasn't happy with Jaya’s marriage with Amitabh in his autobiography titled In the Afternoon Of Time: An Autobiography.
Jaya's father told Harivansh Rai Bachchan, "My family is utterly ruined," just after Amitabh Bachchan’s wedding to his daughter. According to Rediff's report, Harivansh Rai Bachchan disclosed that Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan's wedding was a very private event, attended by only a few guests.
The ceremony took place at a friend's apartment on the top floor of the Skylark building in Malabar Hills. The baraatis consisted of just five people, including Harivansh Rai Bachchan and political leader Sanjay Gandhi. He also mentioned that Jaya's family was not very excited about the wedding.
He mentioned, “Jaya’s parents wanted the marriage to be conducted in the Bengali manner, to which we had no objection. The first stage was the var-puja, the veneration of the groom, which involved Jaya’s father coming to Mangal (Amitabh’s residence) with gifts and conducting a small ceremony; I then reciprocated by doing the same for the bride at Beach House. I noticed something quite unexpected at Beach House: nobody in the family, apart from Jaya, showed even the slightest trace of pleasure.”
He recalled that Amitabh's Haldi ceremony, typically a lively affair, “The joy that was so confined by this constriction spilled out in a tingling of the spine and a tearful glimmering of the eye, especially in Teji’s case,” referring to Big B’s mother, Teji.
“When the neighbours asked what the long decorative strings of light bulbs signified, we explained that Amitabh would be shooting a film here the next night,” he mentioned. Harivansh Rai Bachchan described how the baraat was welcomed “without fanfare.” Upon reaching the mandap, they found Jaya Bachchan, then known as Jaya Bhaduri, beautifully dressed as a bride. Amitabh's father observed a sincere bashfulness on her face, recognising that it was genuine shyness.
After the ceremony ended, the poet recounted that the “five baratis had dinner and set off home,”leaving both families to finish the remaining rituals. “Before we left,” he wrote, “I embraced the father of my new daughter-in-law and congratulated him on gaining a son-in-law like Amit,” hoping he would say the same about Jaya. Instead, he replied, 'My family is utterly ruined.'"
Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan have been married for 51 years and have two children: Shweta Bachchan, who is married to Nikhil Nanda and has two children named Agastya Nanda and Navya Naveli Nanda, and Abhishek Bachchan, who is married to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Abhishek and Aishwarya have a daughter named Aaradhya Bachchan.
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