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| Bollywood celebrates star wedding |
| Two of Bollywood's biggest stars, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, have wed in the Indian city of Mumbai.
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| INDIA
, 21-April-2007
1:50:19 AM |
| Only about 100 guests were invited to the evening ceremony held at one of the groom's family's homes.
But outside, thousands of fans packed the streets trying to catch a glimpse of the couple and celebrity guests.
Ms Rai is a former Miss World, while the groom is son of veteran superstar actor Amitabh Bachchan and actress turned politician, Jaya Bachchan.
The marriage had been billed as Bollywood's biggest wedding in a decade, but the Bachchan family went out of its way to try to keep the proceedings a strictly private affair, erecting a wooden fence around the house to try to keep onlookers away.
But the BBC's Monica Chadha says there were chaotic scenes as a crowd of about 1,000 onlookers broke through barricades and climbed trees to try to get a glimpse of proceedings.
Police were forced to use batons to try to control them and a team of private security guards formed a human chain around the house which overlooks a main road.
There was drama late on Thursday when a woman claiming to be Bachchan's lover slashed one of her wrists outside his house. She did not appear to have been seriously hurt.
The ceremony began with a procession led by Abhishek Bachchan riding a white horse along the road from one of the Bachchan family bungalows to another, where Rai was waiting for him.
The couple were wed according to Hindu marriage rites, including a ceremonial walk around a fire seven times which signifies that the couple will reunite for their next seven births.
Eleven priests were reportedly called in to conduct the marriage.
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