Splendor — and a suicide attempt — as super-celebrities tie the knot
 Reuters Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan, son of India's best known actor, Amitabh Bachchan, arrives at one of his father's residences for his wedding with Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai. The wedding will create Bollywood's ultimate power couple — Rai is a former Miss World and Bachchan is the heir to India's most celebrated film family. |
MUMBAI, India —Astrologers were consulted, the gods gave their blessings, the white stallion was ready and delirious fans milled around the marigold-bedecked home. The stage was set for Bollywood's "wedding of the century."Film-crazy India held its breath Friday as two of its biggest stars, the emerald-eyed former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, a romantic hero and son of an Indian cinema legend, celebrated their weddingThe affair, hyped by Indian media as "the wedding of the century," was filled with the melodrama so beloved in Bollywood, India's flamboyant Hindi film industry: secrecy, dance routines and even a suicidal fan who claimed to be the groom's jilted lover.
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