Big B's velvet jacket, a gleeful Mamata Banerjee and bored SRK at KIFF

[caption id=“attachment_1796955” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Why do the Bachchans look so disgruntled? Banerjee must have conveyed to them that what most Bengalis felt about Bachchan’s diction in ‘Ekla Cholo Re’ was much like what the rest of India feels about Pranab Mukherjee’s Hindi. Though SRK looks bored, he is secretly hoping she has never heard of a film called ‘Devdas’. 
PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1796953” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Mamata Banerjee inaugurate the 20th Kolkata International Film Festival. If you aren’t blinded by the velvet embossed jacket Bachchan is wearing, you might notice that the West Bengal CM looks as thrilled as one of us would be in that frame. PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1796963” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Giving her father-in-law stiff competition in the bling department is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Bachchan Sr should be really worried when the son looks far better than him in a photo - that’s an anomaly as big as Junior Bachchan’s latest film. PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1796957” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] It’s clear that Bachchan doesn’t consult his wife when it comes to clothes and vice versa. Which is why she looks lovely in the understated white saree. That apart, this picture is stuff tabloids daydream about and would kill to caption. All we could come up with is ‘awww’. PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1796959” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Mamata Banerjee: “Did people watch Happy New Year?” SRK: “They did, and how! I can now buy Dubai.” Mamata Banerjee: “That’s great! They should not mind paying to watch me paint now!” PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1796961” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Where Mamata Banerjee seems to be thanking Sr Bachchan for making up for the lack of party decorations on the stage. PTI[/caption]