You can’t expect to be taken seriously in Bollywood if you don’t know how to throw a tantrum.
You can’t expect to be taken seriously in Bollywood if you don’t know how to throw a tantrum.
You can’t expect to be taken seriously in Bollywood if you don’t know how to throw a tantrum. Luckily for Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan, they have some practice! Reliable sources reveal the couple drove the organisers of a recent awards ceremony nuts with their crazy demands. Taking full advantage of the fact that international guest John Travolta had expressed a desire to meet the former Miss World, the actress and her husband are believed to have laid down an impossible list of conditions in exchange for attending the event. Not only did they insist on knowing the entire guest list, the seating arrangement and the flow of the event well in advance, they also refused to pull into the venue and step onto the red carpet before other celebrity guests were seated.
Once there—fashionably late—Abhishek and Aishwarya worked the red carpet, doled out crisp, rehearsed bites to fawning camera crews and settled down comfortably at their table, a safe distance from the one that seated Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor.
Aishwarya was invited to present the award to Travolta, and both she and Abhishek received an award each themselves. But they were upstaged by Aamir Khan, a rare sight at award ceremonies, who received his Icon Award from Travolta, who said he was familiar with Aamir’s work and was particularly a fan of Lagaan, which he’d voted for when it was nominated at the Oscars. Travolta also pledged to support Peepli Live when the actor-producer embarks on his Oscar campaign in Los Angeles shortly.
Clutching their trophies, Abhishek and Aishwarya sportingly posed for the shutterbugs on their way out. It was Aamir, though, who was invited to spend some private time chatting with Travolta. You can’t argue with an Oscar nomination.
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