Vitusha Oberoi / Mid Day
Mumbai, May 3: Shatrughan Sinha is not one to forgive and forget.
Miffed at not being invited to Bollywood’s wedding of the year, Sinha refused to accept the shaadi ka mithai that Amitabh Bachchan sent him after his son Abhishek’s wedding to Aishwarya Rai in Mumbai recently.
The sweets were sent to Sinha’s house thrice and all three times they were sent back by the Rajya Sabha member, who has had a three-decade association with Bachchan.
Though Sinha was not home when the sweets arrived, his staff returned the gift-wrapped boxes on his instructions. “Jab bulaaya nahin phir mithai kis baat ki? Amitabh had said those who had not been invited were not his friends in the first place. I won’t be put in second place and embarrass him by accepting the sweets,” Sinha told MiD DAY.
“The least I expected was that either Amitabh or someone from the family would call me up before sending the sweets. When that was not done, why the mithai?” added Sinha.
On why he had not been invited, Sinha retorted, “Hema Malini was not invited, neither were Dharmendra and Ramesh Sippy.”
“Half of the industry that has stood by the Bachchans through thick and thin. All of us are currently in second place as Amitabh is being guided by a misguided missile called Amar Singh.”
The guest list for the Abhi-Ash wedding has led to a lot of resentment and heart-burn, as many members of the film fraternity have felt slighted at not being invited.
About those people, Bachchan had said after the wedding, “If they are offended because they weren’t invited, then they weren’t my friends in the first place.”
Shaadi Sidelights: