Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri (now Bachchan) got married on June 3, 1973 in a private and simple ceremony. Jaya once revealed that her father did not want them to get married and was not ‘happy’ with her relationship with Amitabh. Amitabh’s father, poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, also mentioned this in his autobiography, in the afternoon of timeThis is what Jaya’s father told her after the conclusion of the wedding ceremony of the two actors.

Harivansh recalls his son Amitabh Bachchan’s wedding day in his book, “Before leaving I hugged my new daughter-in-law’s father and congratulated him on getting a son-in-law like Amit. I expected him to say the same thing about Jaya. But he said, ‘My family is completely ruined.'”

Harivansh Rai also mentioned the incident of 3 June 1973, when Amitabh and Jaya became husband and wifeGiven Amitabh’s popularity following the success of films like Zanjeer, Namak Haram and Saudagar, his family decided to have a small and private wedding ceremony to avoid the crowd of fans.

The famous poet said, “Jaya’s family decided not to hold the ceremony at their flat in the Beach House but at a friend’s house on the top floor of Skylark Building in Malabar Hills.” Harivansh Rai also shared that the wedding ceremony was planned in such a secretive manner that even their neighbours did not know about it. Only their relative, Jagdish Rajan and his family as well as the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her family were invited to the wedding, as Indira Gandhi and Amitabh’s mother Teji Bachchan shared a very close bond.

“Jaya’s parents wanted the wedding to be conducted according to Bengali rites, to which we had no objection. The first step was var-puja, the worship of the groom, in which Jaya’s father would come to the Mangal (Amitabh’s residence) with gifts and conduct a small ceremony; then I did the same for the bride at the beach house. I noticed something unexpected at the beach house: no one in the family showed even the slightest joy except Jaya,” Harivansh wrote in his autobiography.

in remembrance of the wedding dayThe poet further added, “We went up in the lift, Jaya was in bridal makeup and for the first time, I saw shyness on her face and realised what a special aspect of beauty it is.”

Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan have been married for 51 years now. They are parents to two children, Shweta Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.