Will Chiru accept younger daughter marriage?

Hyderabad: On a day of dramatic developments, megastar Chiranjeevi’s younger daughter ‘went out for a walk’ from their home in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday morning, but surfaced a little later at an Arya Samaj mandir in Secunderabad and married her lover of four years. Till late in the night, the hero’s family was waiting for Srija, 18, the youngest child, to return home, but there was no sign of the newly-wed couple.

A shell-shocked Chiranjeevi remained incommunicado and was reportedly not at his Jubilee Hills house. According to sources, he was watching the events unfold on news channels all through the day. Late in the evening, he sent his emissary, brother-in-law and producer Allu Aravind, to speak to the media.

“Chiranjeevi is in a state of shock. He is not in a state of mind to speak to his fans. He gave her (Srija) all the freedom. He was like her friend, we don’t know who led her astray,” Aravind said.

The drama unfolded at around 10 am when Srija, dressed casually in jeans, went out of the house for a walk and on the way wanted to meet her aunt. She left in a friend’s vehicle. An hour and half later, Srija surfaced at Arya Samaj mandir, New Bowenpally. Her lover Shirish Bharadwaj (21) was already there. The couple, both majors, exchanged garlands and took marriage vows as per Arya Samaj tradition at around 11.30 am in the presence of friends.

Soon after the marriage, the couple asked for help from police and the media as they feared for their lives. Speaking to the media, Srija alleged her family members forced her to discontinue the relationship from the time they came to know of it. “As soon as my parents came to know of my affair with Shirish, they forced me to discontinue studies. I was virtually confined to home,” Srija, who was a student of St Francis College, said.

The couple said, she was in a state of ‘house arrest’ after she turned 18 on November 9 last. Shirish Bharadwaj is reportedly an engineering student of MGIT, Gandipet. Their love story began some four years ago when they were still minors at Jubilee Club. The two nurtured the relationship over the years till the girl’s family came to know of it. In a interview to a news channel recently, Bharadwaj reportedly alleged that Chiranjeevi and his fans were threatening him.

The couple said they were waiting for the right time to get married since they wanted to stay together. Sources said, Srija probably feared her love story would meet the same fate as her sister Sushmita’s. Srija’s elder sister was engaged to upcoming hero Uday Kiran, but a few months later the wedding was called off citing “incompatibilty” between the couple. However, the real reason was Uday Kiran was forced out of the relationship, they added.

To pre-empt such a situation, the youngster quietly waited for an opportune moment and married her heart-throb. The couple said, “we had to do this because our families are against this inter-caste marriage,” Srija said. While Shirish is a Brahmin, Srija is a Kapu.

Now, it is for Chiranjeevi, who in his recent flick ‘Shankardada Zindabad’ promoted Gandhigiri, to accept the marriage and respect the sentiments of the young lovers or turn ‘Raakshasudu’.

Hyderabad: On a day of dramatic developments, megastar Chiranjeevi’s younger daughter ‘went out for a walk’ from their home in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday morning, but surfaced a little later at an Arya Samaj mandir in Secunderabad and married her lover of four years. Till late in the night, the hero’s family was waiting for Srija, 18, the youngest child, to return home, but there was no sign of the newly-wed couple.

A shell-shocked Chiranjeevi remained incommunicado and was reportedly not at his Jubilee Hills house. According to sources, he was watching the events unfold on news channels all through the day. Late in the evening, he sent his emissary, brother-in-law and producer Allu Aravind, to speak to the media.

“Chiranjeevi is in a state of shock. He is not in a state of mind to speak to his fans. He gave her (Srija) all the freedom. He was like her friend, we don’t know who led her astray,” Aravind said.

The drama unfolded at around 10 am when Srija, dressed casually in jeans, went out of the house for a walk and on the way wanted to meet her aunt. She left in a friend’s vehicle. An hour and half later, Srija surfaced at Arya Samaj mandir, New Bowenpally. Her lover Shirish Bharadwaj (21) was already there. The couple, both majors, exchanged garlands and took marriage vows as per Arya Samaj tradition at around 11.30 am in the presence of friends.

Soon after the marriage, the couple asked for help from police and the media as they feared for their lives. Speaking to the media, Srija alleged her family members forced her to discontinue the relationship from the time they came to know of it. “As soon as my parents came to know of my affair with Shirish, they forced me to discontinue studies. I was virtually confined to home,” Srija, who was a student of St Francis College, said.

The couple said, she was in a state of ‘house arrest’ after she turned 18 on November 9 last. Shirish Bharadwaj is reportedly an engineering student of MGIT, Gandipet. Their love story began some four years ago when they were still minors at Jubilee Club. The two nurtured the relationship over the years till the girl’s family came to know of it. In a interview to a news channel recently, Bharadwaj reportedly alleged that Chiranjeevi and his fans were threatening him.

The couple said they were waiting for the right time to get married since they wanted to stay together. Sources said, Srija probably feared her love story would meet the same fate as her sister Sushmita’s. Srija’s elder sister was engaged to upcoming hero Uday Kiran, but a few months later the wedding was called off citing “incompatibilty” between the couple. However, the real reason was Uday Kiran was forced out of the relationship, they added.

To pre-empt such a situation, the youngster quietly waited for an opportune moment and married her heart-throb. The couple said, “we had to do this because our families are against this inter-caste marriage,” Srija said. While Shirish is a Brahmin, Srija is a Kapu.

Now, it is for Chiranjeevi, who in his recent flick ‘Shankardada Zindabad’ promoted Gandhigiri, to accept the marriage and respect the sentiments of the young lovers or turn ‘Raakshasudu’.