Abhishek Bachchan answers why Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan were serving food at Ambani wedding

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai (Photo: Instagram)


Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani got married to Anand Piramal recently and the celebrations were spectacular.

For almost a week social media was flooded with pictures and videos of the event. Bollywood celebrities like Aamir Khan with wife Kiran Rao, Abhishek Bachchan with mother Jaya, wife Aishwarya and daughter Aaradhya, Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri Khan, filmmaker Karan Johar, actor Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor with wife Sunita, Boney Kapoor with daughters Janhvi and Khushi, and many others graced the wedding celebrations.

Not only did the A-listers indulged in the merrymaking with the Ambani family but also served food to the guests!

Some videos of Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, and many other celebrities serving food went viral on social media.

It got a mixed reaction from the netizens: while some praised the actors for being humble, others raised questions.

Actor Abhishek Bachchan took to Twitter and explained to a user why the celebrities served food at Isha’s wedding.

“It is a tradition called “sajjan ghot”. The bride’s family feeds the grooms family,” he wrote on Twitter.

Isha and Anand, scions of the Ambani and Piramal business families, respectively, were married as per Indian traditions at the Mumbai residence of the Ambani family on 12 December.

The couple’s sangeet ceremony was a star-studded affair as the Bollywood celebrities took to the dance floor together. Even American pop queen Beyonce Knowles flew down for a special performance at the wedding.