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EXCLUSIVE: Sonam Kapoor PERSONALLY invites Aishwarya Rai Bachchan over the phone to her wedding
Sonam Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were said to be in a cold war for quite some time. However, letting bygones be bygones, Sonam has invited Aishwarya personally for her and Anand Ahuja's wedding.
There has always been an element of competition between Sonam Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. But while the two actresses engaged in a cold war till a few years back, the two have been on cordial terms ever since the last couple of years.
Last year, when Aishwarya’s contract with a prominent jewellery house got over after three years, Sonam was roped in. Both their outfits at Cannes are hot topics of discussion among the Indian media and their fans, with debates and polls forming on who looked better. But now all that seems to be a thing of the past. It’s a happy event that is happening in Bollywood next week and one of the biggest weddings of the year when Anil and Sunita Kapoor’s daughter Sonam gets married to Anand Ahuja and bygones are best-left bygones. Sonam has personally invited Aishwarya to her wedding.
Says a source, “Last week, when Sunita Kapoor bumped into Aishwarya at the wedding reception of Saudamini Mattu, the niece of designer Sandeep Khosla, she made it a point to greet her warmly and personally invited her for her daughter’s wedding. After a couple of days, Sonam also called Aishwarya and invited her. They chatted for a few minutes after which Aishwarya graciously accepted the invitation. While the younger Bachchans (Aishwarya, Shweta and Abhishek) have been invited by Sonam too, the older ones have also been invited by both Anil and Sunita. Weddings are special moments, it’s a time to have fun and forget the past and everybody is doing just that for Sonam’s wedding. Abhishek has worked with her in two films – Delhi 6 and Players and both are good friends.” 
The rivalry between Sonam and Aishwarya started when Sonam was announced as the face of L’Oreal in 2009. She spoke about walking the Cannes red carpet but the company finally announced otherwise. Reportedly, Aishwarya had expressed her unhappiness on the younger actress walking the red carpet, especially as she was the international face of the company. It was reported that a deeply upset Sonam, on missing out her debut at the French Riviera, had apparently said, “Aishwarya is an aunty from another generation.” While Aishwarya chose to maintain a dignified silence on the matter, Sonam had later denied the comment saying she was misquoted. She had later walked the red carpet at Cannes in 2011 and since then, what Sonam and Aishwarya have worn has become a much-discussed topic among Indian media.
In 2016, when Aishwarya’s purple lips became a rage, Sonam again shocked everybody when she told PTI, “The whole idea of fashion and makeup is for people to discuss it and I guess she (Aishwarya) wanted to be discussed. She achieved what she wanted to achieve with it, which I think is great. I think it (purple lip colour) looked great and she (Aishwarya) carried it off with aplomb. I think it was great to do it in the 15th year, it’s cool. She was trending everywhere.”
In an interview with Anupama Chopra, when informed about Sonam’s remarks, Aishwarya said that it was premeditated at all. She said, “I cross my heart and I promise you that it was not premeditated at all.”
But truth is that Sonam and Aishwarya, despite their tongue-in-cheek witticisms towards each other and fashion rivalry at Cannes, have maintained their cordiality since 2012, when a patch-up was brought about by Aishwarya’s husband Abhishek in New Zealand. He and Sonam were shooting together when Aishwarya decided to visit him on the sets. Aishwarya and Sonam's alleged war has been much spoken about. Buzz is that Aishwarya and Sonam sorted out their issues at that time.
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