Oh! Bollywood!

It’s amazing how everything in India has to have a Bollywood connection…almost as if being connected to Bollywood gives the event an air of legitimacy that no historian can possibly counter. A case in point – while taking a tour of the Janjira fort, our guide gossiped about how the heir of the king of Zanzibar is now married to Saif Ali Khan’s cousin. And then of course, the rolling of the eyes – he’s after all the chote nawab of Pataudi.

The weird part was that my mom knew the exact relation – she quickly prompted – “Oh yeah, his atye baheen (dad’s sister’s daughter) got married to Siddi’s son recently.” Now I know where I get the uncanny knack of archiving and recollecting useless gossip from!