Ash-Abhisheik's wedding - disappointment for fans & media

The wedding of Ash and Abhishek was a much talked about event of this year. With the media going to any extent to capture images of the couple and the celebrities attending the event. But the bachchan family rather decided to keep the whole event extremely private and almost completely barred the media from getting any sort of coverage. Its true that celebrities are also human beings and they too require some private space especially during an event like this. But the way the Bachchan family had completely eluded from the media is a disappointment for their fans.
Even the guest’s list attending the wedding was like pieces of a puzzle. Sadly the most high profile wedding of the year did not consist all the members of the film fraternity itself. The very same industry, which gave this family the position and the status, they enjoy today. Many of the Biggies in the industry were left out.
One can justify saying that the choice of guests attending the wedding is their personal choice. But depriving fans of their right to watch their favorite celeb’s getting married is truly not fair. The media too was snubbed, but the desperate media persons went to the end of their wits to capture any image they could. And all that they could manage to get was grainy images Aishwarya and Abhishek going in a car and Abhishek atop a horse! Its really sad that the Bachchan’s chose to disappoint their fans.

I just remembered the stark contrast with the Surya-Jyothika’s wedding that took place last year. Which was also a much talked about wedding in South India. They too decided not to entertain media persons during the wedding ceremony. But right during the time the wedding was announced, Surya’s dad, actor Siva Kumar had informed that the media will not be allowed, but photos and videos of the ceremony will be made available for the press within one hour of the ceremony and the media persons will have a briefing the following day. What a gracious way to conduct a ceremony like this, not disappointing anyone. All of the Tamil film industry seemed to be present there to grace the occasion and the media was not at all disappointed as they kept the word, the photos and videos were available all over in just few hours of the ceremony. There was no hullabaloo, no mistreatment of the press, whole Tamil film industry attended the ceremony and the fans got to get the glimpse of their favorite stars on their wedding day.








Seems like the Bachchan’s truly need a lesson to be learnt in respecting the media and fans. They are stars because of this very same media and the crores of fans who throng to see their movies. When their movies are going to be released they love the media to give them full coverage but it’s not the same story when it comes to their personal lives. Once they are celebrities it’s always difficult to lead a normal personal lives as others. People see them in the movies; they idolize them and like to know about them and the kind of life they lead. It is in return for all the fame and money these celeb’s get.
But the media never backs up. They still waited in capture all that their cameras could, speculated and aired the same material again and again in all news channels. But the fans aren’t impressed!