ISLAMABAD: The Aishwarya-Abhishek Bachchan “dream wedding” made waves in Bollywood crazy Pakistan with the media here going on a feeding frenzy over the event.
The wedding in Big B’s household remained a top story for several days on Pakistani TV channels like Geo and Ary which deployed special staff to anchor “exclusive” features highlighting various events of the wedding with footage from their Indian TV collaborators.
Struggling actress Janhavi Kapoor, who allegedly attempted suicide outside the Bachchan residence on Friday claiming she was married to Abhishek, also provided much fodder for the channels.
The channels aired live shots of the ‘Barat’ (wedding procession) on Friday.
The print media splashed the story on the front pages on Saturday, with photographs and details of the marriage.
Some channels roped in Pakistani actors to comment on the wedding of the Bollywood’s celebrity couple, whose movies have been vastly popular in Pakistan.
Bollywood has a large fan following in Pakistan even though the movies are banned in theatres.
CDs of Indian movies, most of them pirated, are released in Pakistan either on the same day or, on some occasions, even earlier before they are released in India.
Commenting on the wedding, popular actress Reema said Aishwarya and Abhishek were lucky to have a “dream wedding” in real life. “Film stars normally have such weddings in films. Very few have them in real life,” she said
“Both of them are excellent stars and wonderful persons. I wish them well,” Reema said over Geo TV as the channel showed the video of the high-profile wedding.
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