It is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s birthday today. The actor, who married Abhishek Bachchan in 2007, had opened up in an old interview about being part of the Bachchan family and said that she was grateful for the way she was ‘embraced and loved’.
After their grand wedding in 2007, Aishwarya opened up about it in an interview with ABC News. She said, “We both have gotten married and we're happy, very blessed with the wonderful sets of parents. And so, we both keep saying that now we have two sets of parents. Having gotten married into his family, I find, you know, I'm so at home."
She added, "So, when they say they have invited a daughter and I feel I've got a new set of parents. It's literally, it isn't that new or different of an ambiance. Even though, yes, for the world it is the premier family of the film industry.”
Aishwarya said that the family has cultural values. “These are the values I have been brought up with, this is the family ambiance I've grown up in. So, I'm very comfortable."
When the interviewer asked her, “So your illustrious father-in-law (Amitabh Bachchan) is just that, your father-in-law?", Aishwarya replied, “For me, personally, yes. And I don't mean to undermine it by saying 'just that'. I'd say he is that with ultimate love, regard and respect. Him and Maa (Jaya Bachchan), I mean, they are Paa and Maa to me and I'm just thankful for the way I've been embraced and loved."
During another interview with Oprah Winfrey, Abhishek had opened up about the time when he proposed her. “I was filming in New York, and I used to stand on the balcony of my hotel room and wish that I could be with her. Some time later I took her to the same balcony, and she asked me to marry her,” he said.
Later, when Oprah joked that it must be hard getting a divorce after such an elaborate wedding. Aishwarya quickly replied and said, “We don’t even try and entertain that thought.”
On the work front, Aishwarya was last seen in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan.
