50 traditional cooks were flown in to Mumbai from Kanpur to prepare Shaad Ali’s traditional wedding lunch on Sunday afternoon. Shaad Ali’s wedding with his designer-soulmate Aarti Patkar at her Bungalow in Bandra on 6 January brought all traffic to a halt. In what could be regarded as an unprecedented public display of Bollyood’s First Family’s celebratory instincts, the Big B Amitabh Bachchan, junior B Abhishek and the Bachchan <em>Bahu</em> Aishwarya all danced on the street for Shaad’s <em>baaraat</em>.

In June last year (2011), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan opted out of Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV Movies’ Heroine because of her pregnancy. Now, almost a year later, it is heard that the beautiful and talented actress is ready to face the camera once again. And though many filmmakers have tapped her with several scripts, the actress has given her nod of approval to Mani Ratnam's adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's famous 1938 novel <em>Rebecca</em>.