Monday,
June
11,
2007
The
fallout
from
the
'Wedding
of
the
Year'
seems
to
still
be
reverberating
around
Bollywood.According
to
an
Indian
portal,
it
has
now
affected
director
Karan
Johar.
The
35-year-old
director
and
talk
show
host
is
caught
between
the
rest
of
Bollywood
and
Amitabh
Bachchan.
It
has
been
nearly
two
months
since
his
son
Abhishek
married
Aishwarya
Rai
in
a
grand
wedding,
but
Amitabh's
decision
to
leave
out
a
large
number
of
Bollywood's
denizens
from
the
nuptial
guest
list
is
still
stinging
for
some.
When
Karan
announced
that
he
is
casting
Aishwarya
and
Abhishek
in
his
new
project
-
the
duo
is
now
considered
to
be
a
box-office
goldmine
-
his
good
friend
and
frequent
collaborator,
Shah
Rukh
Khan
said
he
wouldn't
participate
in
the
film.
The
42-year-old
actor
has
worked
on
most
of
Karan's
films
under
the
latter's
company,
Dharma
Productions.
That
decision
could
also
be
attributed
to
the
simmering
rivalry
between
Shah
Rukh
and
the
64-year-old
Amitabh.
There
are
also
actors
who
don't
want
to
work
the
newly
weds
for
fear
of
being
overshadowed
by
them.
Meanwhile,
a
national
newspaper
reported
that
Saif
Ali
Khan,
who
had
apparently
agreed
to
work
with
Aishwarya
and
Abhishek
in
the
venture,
has
pulled
out.
While
his
busy
schedule
was
the
official
reason,
the
Indian
media
speculated
that
the
36-year-old
actor
might
have
been
afraid
of
having
his
star
diminished
by
the
couple.
The
newspaper
cited
an
unnamed
source
who
said,
"The
dates
could
have
been
adjusted.
But
(Saif)
decided
to
let
go."
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