Posts Tagged ‘Ashutosh Gowarikar’

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We know, we know. It’s not particularly newsworthy to say that mother-in-law Jaya Bachan loves her bahu Aishwarya Rai and thinks she deserved that Indian International Film Academy award for Best Actress much more than Priyanka Chopra! But it IS noteworthy that the Bachan clan is going on and on about this 2 weeks after the incident! Honestly, if you are considered the “The First Family”  of the industry, isn’t your head matriarch taking it a bit too far when she said that Aish deserved it more for Jodha Akbar than Piggy Chops did for Fashion?

A Quick Recap of this whole icky icky mess.

- Aclaimed filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar of Lagaan goes on-stage to accept at IIFA where he says: Priyanka I love you, but I don’t know how you got the award when Ash was nominated in the same category! Then he realizes what he just said and does damage control by further insulting her: You are really hardworking Priyanka but Aish is a natural.

- Priyanka keeps her cool, doesn’t comment and skips the IIFA afterparty (rightly so!) at the Aishwarya-Abhishek’s hotel suite.

However, it doesn’t end there.

See the sketchiest part of this whole thing is that Priyanka is the STAR of Ashutosh’s new movie Whats Your Rashee?. Yes the STAR. So when did publicly insulting your heroine in front of all her colleagues become acceptable?

And ontop of that Jaya was quoted in a recent interview where she admitted that she told Ashutosh to bring up why Aish wasn’t given an award: I suggested he (Ashutosh) bring up the question on-stage at IIFA. We were discussing why Aishwarya has not been given any award for JA. So when he mentioned my name, he wasn’t doing anything wrong. For all I know she (Priyanka) must be really good in the movie. I haven’t seen it…I don’t have objection to her winning the award. But I wonder why Aishwarya’s fine performance was ignored. I think she richly deserved recognition for their work.

So JB didn’t even watch Fashion yet she thinks her bahu deserved the award more.

SIGH.

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