DJ Aqeel is known for being the life of most A-list celebrity functions and parties. While he’s been in the business for many years, he’s also grown up with many of these celebs, thus shares a great rapport with them. In a recent interview, he has opened up on some celebrity wedding parties and how it was.
He recalled how Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai’s sangeet was at his house in Juhu and Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor had an intimate function. He said, “Saif and Kareena’s (sangeet ceremony) was very small, with only very few people there at the Taj. Abhishek’s was at his house in Juhu — it was a crazy party. Both were fun. They are all my friends.”
He further added, “I grew up with these guys. So, there was a sense of comfort, in knowing the whole crowd. It wasn’t like a stranger came in and performed. Most of them even attended my wedding.” Aqeel also said that he had performed at the wedding of Lakshmi Mittal’s daughter. He added, “Shah Rukh Khan and Saif were also there at that party in Paris, anchoring.”
For those not in the know, Abhishek and Aishwarya had a very intimate wedding in 2007 and many people were not invited. Some had even take offence at that. For instance, Shatrughan Sinha who had returned the sweets of the wedding as he was not invited. Abhishek and Aishwarya had spoken about it on ‘Koffee With Karan’. The ‘Ghoomer’ actor had said, “Very honestly, people are forgetting a very, very major reason why our family wanted to keep it very intimate. There was an ailing grandmother at the hospital and my father said that ‘You know, we do not feel good about going out there and having a big celebration.’ Did I want to invite? Did my family want to invite? Did her family want to invite the entire world? Yes. But our parents, all together, sent out a card seeking the blessings of everybody. And everybody was ok with that except for one person who returned that. And that was fine. That was Shatrughan uncle, he returned the card and that was fine. We accepted it back. You can’t please everyone.”