Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan got married on June 3, 1973. Jaya's father Taroon Coomar Bhadhuri shared the details of their wedding in a 1989 article, reports 'India Today'.
In an article for the 'Illustrated Weekly of India' in 1989, Jaya's father Taroon Coomer Bhaduri mentioned that he was impressed with Amitabh and knew that he was not marrying his daughter because she was a big star.
“I felt he was not the run-of-the-mill Bombay film star. There were vicious people who said that Amitabh married Jaya because she was a big star, but it’s totally untrue.
He waited for Zanjeer to be a success. But Jaya would have married him anyway. I know that for certain. She is not a fickle-minded person.
She is a very determined individual, bent on having her way since childhood. It is difficult for me to say what drew them together,” he wrote.
Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan's wedding ceremony on June 3, 1973, was an intimate affair with only their family members and friends in attendance.
Jaya’s father, journalist (onetime with 'The Statesman), Taroon Coomar Bhadhuri, in an article, shared how the Bengali priest at the wedding objected to the union of a Bengali Brahmin (Jaya) and a non-Bengali non-Brahmin (Amitabh). Taroon also put to rest the rumours of him being unhappy with Jaya's wedding to Amitabh.
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After they decided to marry each other, Amitabh called Jaya's mother and arranged for their travel to Mumbai. “And presto, we were in Bombay the next day to make arrangements for a ‘secret marriage’ on June 3, 1973.
There is no point now in going into the details of how the whole affair was kept secret and the marriage arranged in the flat of friends of our family, the Pandits, at Malabar Hill. But there is something more to it,” Jaya’s father wrote.
Since it all happened quickly, they had difficulty finding a Bengali priest in Mumbai. Taroon continued, "A Bengali marriage is usually a long-drawn-out but highly interesting affair. The Bengali priest (who was located with great difficulty) at first protested against having to preside over a marriage between a Bengali Brahmin (Jaya) and a non-Bengali non-Brahmin (Amit).
After a lot of hassle, this was sorted out. Amit went through all the rituals, offending no one, and the ceremony went on until early the next morning.
He did with sincerity all he was told to do. The following day, they flew to London. On their return, I held a reception at Bhopal, and again Amit did whatever he was told to do,” Jaya’s father wrote.
Addressing the rumours of him and his wife not being happy with Jaya's decision to marry Amitabh, he wrote, "I would like to know just one good reason why my wife or I would have been opposed to the Bhaduri-Bachchan alliance.
Amitabh was, and is, a lovable boy.
He struggled hard to come up in the world of films. Initial failures did not deter him, and with a Teutonic doggedness, he pursued his career.
"He proposed marriage to Jaya only when the film Zanjeer clicked, and he has not looked back since. So, what reservations could we have? That he was not a Bengali and was a non-Brahmin? How ridiculous!"
"Another daughter of mine too is married to a non-Brahmin, and if it is any consolation to my detractors, my second daughter is married to a Roman Catholic. Apart from my wife and me, my elderly parents also not only joined in the marriage celebrations but blessed all three couples, in view of scores of invitees.
And my father was a very proud Brahmin. His words still ring in my ears: ‘It is their life. Who are we to throw a spanner in the works? If they are happy, so should we be’," Taroon concluded.
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