I know
only one person who’s married to a tree,and it isn’t Aishwarya Rai.
The only person I know who’s married a tree is Shabana Azmi. And no
it wasn’t the one that I recurred in Indra Kumar’s cinema.Wonder
what happened to Indjis ‘lucky’ tree, did it stop being lucky with
the flops? Or was the tree replaced by Fardeen and Vivek Oberoi in Pyare
Mohan? Shabana did marry a tree, though. It was in Aparna Sen’s film
Sati, recreating the ancient practice of marrying mangliks to trees
to rid them of their inauspicious aura.
Does anyone
really believe the progressive Bachchans to be guilty of such primitive
practices?Did the family patriarch really need to tell the world that
his bahu was never married to a tree?
For the
record, both Abhishek and Aishwarya are manglik. As far as I know this
confluence of two challenging horoscopes automatically cancels out whatever
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And by
the way, one of the most successful marriages in the film industry bonds
two mangliks Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. Has it made them any less successful,
collectively or individually?
Of course
the film industry has lately discovered in big way the comforts of astrology
and numerology. But I don’t think our film folks allow the stars above
to govern their lives beyond a point. For years Shah Rukh Khan has been
advised by friends and well wishers to move out of his bungalow Mannat.
It’s supposed to have brought SRK ill luck. But only good things happening
to Shah Rukh’s career and life. Ekta Kapoor does seem to outwardly
manifest and exude the most intense religiosity. And I respect her for
her beliefs. But I don’t think she for a minute believes that success
happened to her because she prayed hard. Ekta, Karan Johar and Rakesh
Roshan favour the letter ‘K’ as long as it works for them. The original
‘K’ specialist was Arjun Hingorani who believed in film titles with
3 Ks like Kab Kyun Aaur Kahan,
Kahani Kismat Ki. But he’ also made thundering ‘K’ flops like Khel Khiladi Ka and Kaun Kare Kurbani. When Subhashj Ghai decides to
put himself in one frame of all his fIlms, when Sanjay Dutt wears a
particular shirt to court or when Kangna Ranaut insists on looking at
her sister’s face before cutting any deal, I don’t think they are
being aggressively superstitious, it’s just homage they’re paying
to their comfort zones. In the fiercely competitive world of entertainment,
more and more people would resort to tikkas on foreheads, rings, beads
and amulets. If nothing else, they do look cool on a lot of Bollywood
folks.
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