Anil Ambani leaves 'Prateeksha' after the Sangeet ceremony of Ash and Abhishek on Thursday morning in Mumbai.

Kajol, sister Tanisha and Karan Johar leave 'Prateeksha' after the Sangeet ceremony on early Thursday morning in Mumbai.

Abhishek Bachchan leaves 'Prateeksha' after the Sangeet ceremony on early Thursday morning in Mumbai.

The countdown to the Big Fat Bollywood wedding has begun. Aishwarya and Abhishek’s sangeet was held on Wednesday at the Bachchan residence in Juhu.

Amitabh Bachchan was dressed in a white crystal-studded sherwani played the perfect host, welcoming guests at the gates of his home Prateeksha.

He was accompanied by close friend and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.

The sangeet guest list included Anil Ambani, Subroto Roy, Ajay Devgan and Kajol, Preity Zinta, Sanjay Dutt, Karan Johar and Danny Dezongpa. Director Ram Gopal Verma and members of the Kapoor family were also spotted at the do.

After a gala sangeet ceremony on Wednesday night, the Bachchans and Rais are all set for the mehendi on Thursday.

This time the action has shifted from Bachchans’ residence Prateeksha in Juhu to Rais’ La Mer in Bandra.

But as Aishwarya gets ready for the mehendi ceremony, did you know that the occasion has a desert connection?

The special mehendi that will be used at the do comes straight from the organic henna fields of Sojat in Rajasthan.



Known to be auspicious for marital bliss, 15 kgs of henna has been ordered for Bollywood's first family. And the Mehendi traders of Sojat say they have all the reasons to celebrate.

“We are thrilled that a natural herbal product has been ordered by the Bachchans. We have the best quality and we are honoured to send it to the Bachchan family,” says a mehendi trader from Sojat, Nitin.

So, while mehendi traders of Sojat celebrate, there is a group of Manganiyar singers of Jaisalmer who, too, are singing in joy.

Gazi Khan Manganiyar, who floored the guests with his desert folk songs at the Liz Hurley-Arun Nayyar wedding in Jodhpur last month, has been invited to deliver another rocking performance at Abhishek-Aishwarya's wedding.

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Bollywood actress Jaya Bachchan arrives for the marriage ceremony of her son Abhishek at the family's residence in Mumbai. The wedding ensemble for entire Bachchan family has been designed by Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.

Sanjay Dutt arrives at the Bachchan residence to attend the Abhi-Ash wedding. The baraatis boarded seven luxury buses that took them to Prateeksha, the Bachchan family's other residence, where the wedding would be solemnised.