Bollywood’s hottest husband and wife are sticking to a killer schedule.

Two days after former beauty queen Aishwarya Rai wed India’s most eligible bachelor Abhishek Bachchan in a flamboyant ceremony dubbed the “wedding of the century” by the Indian media, the couple flew to a temple town in southern India today.

Television channels were flooded with images of the couple, both sets of parents and several close friends and relatives entering the famous Tirumala temple in Tirupati, in southern Andhra Pradesh state.

Rai, 33, was dressed in a red and gold traditional silk sari and wore a mangalsutra, a necklace of black and gold beads, and sindoor, or red vermillion powder in the parting of her hair. Both are considered auspicious for Hindu married women.

Her new husband, 31-year-old Bachchan, wore a white kurta-pajama, a loose tunic with baggy pants.

At the temple, crowds of fans, media photographers and reporters jostled for space as private security and policemen created a protective ring around the couple and their entourage.

There were reports that a photographer sustained minor injuries after a scuffle with security staff on Saturday, and the groom’s father, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, apologised to photographers on today.

“I apologise for the inconvenience caused,” he told reporters in a brief appearance. “The wedding was meant to be a private affair.”

After two days of pre-wedding ceremonies and parties, the couple were married on Friday in a traditional Hindu ceremony at Bachchan’s family home in suburban Juhu in Mumbai, the capital of India’s Hindi film industry.

That was followed by a bidai, or giving away the bride ceremony, on Saturday.

With both the Rai and Bachchan families reportedly asking their guests not to speak to the media, few details about the various events were available.

News reports have said that the couple are likely to head to Venice for a month-long honeymoon.

The media frenzy has surrounded the two stars since they were engaged in a ceremony in January.

Rai shot to fame when she was crowned Miss World in 1994 and is the brand ambassador for leading cosmetic companies. Bachchan is a popular romantic hero and comes from a famous Bollywood movie family – his father Amitabh is an Indian movie icon, and his mother Jaya is also a famous actress.

London: In a real life twist to the familiar Bollywood storyline of siblings separating in childhood and meeting years later, a brother and sister reunited after 18 years when they discovered they worked in the same office.

Siblings Kay Lund and her half-brother Steven Philips could not believe their luck when a chance encounter at their workplace in Bradford brought them together for the first time since 1989. The story also has an India connection.

Lund, 23, who had spent the last five years searching for her older brother, said: “It is absolutely unbelievable to think I had been looking everywhere for Steven and we had been working in the same building for five months.

“It is like some kind of soap opera story line. It’s like our own little miracle.”

Philips, 33, and Lund last saw each other almost two decades ago after their father, also called Stephen, 56, lost contact with his son, who was from a previous relationship.

Lund, who was only six at the time, moved to India with her father and mother Rose, while 16-year-old Steven lived with his mother in Wolverhampton. By the time Lund and her parents returned to Leeds, the family had lost all contact with Philips.

On turning 18 she started a campaign to track down her long-lost half-brother, even asking customers at the lingerie shop in which she worked if they knew him.

But despite checking on Internet sites such as Friends Reunited and MySpace it was not until the pair started working together at Loop Customer Management that she tracked him down in March.

She told the Yorkshire Post: “When I started working at Loop I went through my usual routine of asking everyone if they knew a Steven Philips. I couldn’t believe it when I was told someone by that name worked here.

“My colleague pointed to a man at a desk on the other side of the room. I wasn’t wearing my glasses, but squinting I could see a man with grey hair and his back to me. I thought ‘No, there’s no way that could be him’.

“I then checked on the internal database which confirmed he wasn’t my brother as he spelled his name Steven and not Stephen. It turns out that I was looking at the wrong guy and Steven – who changed the spelling himself – was stood next to him.

“It wasn’t until a colleague came up to me and said I think Steven’s your brother. We checked parents’ names and it turned out we were related. I wanted to scream and shout but we were in work so we just hugged and chatted.”

Philips said he was delighted, and added: “I’d resigned myself to the fact that we would probably never meet again. I can’t wait to get to know my sister properly. We have so much to catch up on and I’m sure we are going to be great friends.” -IANS

KYA LOVE STORY HAI easily qualifies as the shortest ever Bollywood flicks. After all it lasts just 6 minutes – a minute spent into the title roll immediately followed by Kareena’s five minute appearance in ‘It’s Rocking’. Once the song gazes through and the opening shot of the actual film begins with two sex starved sidekicks romping on a bed and bath tub respectively with stuffed plastic dolls, you know that it is only going to be downhill from hereon.

So bad is debutant director Lovely Singh’s effort that calling KLSH a cliché would be a cliché in itself! Even though the film is just 120 minutes with 30 minutes consumed by 6 songs and further 30 minutes dedicated to the sidekicks trying to make love to anyone and everyone who comes in their way, there is nothing at all to tell in remaining 60 minutes. Even a tele-serial may have fared better!

To add to the woes, Ayesha Takia has all the reasons to be sidelined! And no, it is not due to Kareena Kapoor being more prominent on billboards, posters and other publicity material but a certain South African blonde called Martha! Reason? As Ayesha’s snooty to-be-husband’s [Karan Hukku] secretary, she makes it into the record books to be spending more time with her boss discussing business deals and contract sign-offs. Considering the man is touted to be one of the most successful entrepreneurs around, whatever happened to good old ‘art of delegation’!

Well, talking of art, even our very own lead actor [Tusshar] boasts of prowess in one form of art – that of architecture. He can make out the wrong symmetry of a building in one look and even declare that what looks good from distance may not quite be the same when close. Alas, the entire audience (or whatever little number present in the auditorium) understood the reference but poor Ayesha doesn’t quite till the film’s end!

Ayesha’s characterization itself is a paradox of sorts, as is the entire film in fact. On one hand she proclaims at the film’s start itself that she is career oriented, wants to start early, grow early and be big, while on the other hand at an age of 20 she is willing to marry a ‘perfectly-wrong-stranger’! In the times when even small town girls are willing to give themselves some time before taking a plunge into marital hood, it is comical to see her falling pray to her ’sapnon-ka-rajkumar’ fantasies on the first given opportunity.

Now let’s talk about ’sapnon-ka-rajkumar’ who is perhaps modeled straight on the ever-so-snobbish-and-high-headed Prince of SHREK series. He is rude, he is angry, he has a constant frown on his face, he fires people because they spell him as whatever-Uberoi instead of whatever-Oberoi, he calls a girl who shows him a mirror as ‘over smart’ and he kicks and hurts Ayesha’s good-friend Tusshar in a beach rugby match! But guess what? The girl forgives and forgets (well almost)!

She says, “I am confused”! Girlie, what’s there to be confused about? Just kick him aside and move on! What is anyways there at all in this model-trying-to-look-like-an-entrepreneur who doesn’t come personally to pick his girl for his first date, asks his secretary to choose flowers for her and heck, even asks one of them to write a so-called personal note! And by the way, when he takes her out eventually, he is supposed to make an audience believe that he is having fun while dancing amidst tanks, soldiers, choppers and bikes, all in the middle of a city!

So what happens to the ‘good-friend’ eventually? Well, he gets a ‘dhakka’ of his life when his ‘good friend’ tells him that he needs to have an identity. So off he flies, gets an identity in around 15-20 days flat, wears a ‘mehnat-ki-kmaai-se-earned’ glares, walks out of an airport in slow motion and walks back to somewhere with a tear in his eye after realizing that his ‘good-friend’ is now engaged to someone. To add to his horror, the girl has even changed her hairstyle for the occasion by knotting her hair back!

He supports her decision, girl starts seeing her dreams shattering as she comes close to Mr. Model, Mr. Model refuses to grow up, eventually he realizes that two ‘good friends’ love each other, he sportingly backs out, ‘good friends’ say “I Love You’ to each other, I clap and eventually the 22 odd people in the auditorium wake up and ask – “Picture is over, is it?”

I say ‘Yes’, they say ‘Thank God’ and we all leave! And no one is singing ‘It’s Rocking’ en route to exit doors even though the song blazes on for the second time in two hours!