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This Valentines,we recall some of the out-of-the-box tokens of affection that B-town celebrities presented their better halves with.
Aamir Khan doesn8217;t wait for a reason to throw a party for his lady-love or surprise her with a sudden holiday plan. On their third anniversary,being the perfectionist that he is,Aamir Khan insisted on booking a chopper to take Kiran Rao from Mumbai to the hill-station. That8217;s not just it8230;the loving husband also planned a romantic ski-holiday at the Chamoix Valley in France for his better-half.
Saif Ali Khan surely knows how to make his lady-love Kareena Kapoor feel like a million bucks. The actor wears his heart on his sleeves,or let8217;s say his hand. To express his love for Bebo,Saif got himself a tattoo with her name inscribed in the Devnagari script! While couples all over seal their love with identical finger-bands,Hrithik Roshan and wife Suzanne did it with similar star-shaped tattoos sketched on their wrist.
Circumventing all the controversies surrounding their marriage,the tattoo seems to have served as an ever-lasting bond holding the duo together. As for Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,the duo claims to know each other really well and yet,they never fall short of planning surprises for each other.
On Abhishek Bachchan8217;s birthday,Aishwarya didn8217;t go for the clichéd gift for her man. Even though she had a hectic schedule,the actress planned a surprise visit to New Zealand,where Abhishek was shooting for Abbas-Mustan8217;s Players. Surely diamonds are nice but a little creativity and thought work wonders. Vivek Oberoi,who was so much in love with Priyanka Alva before their marriage,penned a poem for his lady-love. In a world of only two people who are each others world 8217; are a couple of lines from the verse he wrote for Priyanka. Age is just a number for Javed Akhtar. The lyricist is young at heart when it comes to expressing his love for his better-half. On his wife,actress and social activist Shabana Azmi8217;s 60th birthday,Jadoo as Shabana calls Javed fondly used his creativity to gift her something so different 8211; a cake that was a replica of a Mumbai slum,as Shabana has fiercely stood up for the rights of the slum dwellers in Mumbai through the years. That8217;s not it. Remember the song Kathai aankhon wali ek ladki8230;from Duplicate? Well here8217;s a secret. Javed had penned that song for Shabana when he was courting her. Lovey-dovey couple Arbaaz and Malaika Arora-Khan is known to regularly spend on gifts but Arbaaz upped the ante after the huge success of his Dabangg. On her birthday,he gifted Malaika,an all-expense-paid holiday to Koh Samui in Thailand.
Later,from the beaches of Thailand,Malaika and Arbaaz headed to America. As Malaika had not packed for the weather Arbaaz,who did not want her to battle the cold weather gifted her a warm fur coat.
Here8217;s a countdown of such tokens:
Kareena Kapoor 8211; Saif Ali Khan:To express his love for Kareena,chhote nawab Saif Ali Khan got a tattoo on his left hand with her name inscribed in Devnagari script.
Suzanne 8211; Hrithik Roshan: This couple does not believe in going solo. They got themselves similar star tattoos sketched on their wrist,from a Mumbai-based tattoo artiste.
Shah Rukh -Gauri Khan: Gauri knows how to pamper her man. She flew to Rome with kids,Aryan and Suhana,to bring in SRKs birthday. SRK was in Rome for the screening of My Name Is Khan at a film festival held in the Italian capital.
Imran 8211; Avantika Khan: Avantika gave Imran the gift of a lifetime by requesting the Pakistani band Strings to perform live for the actor on his birthday.
Vivek 8211; Priyanka Oberoi: The lovestruck Oberoi Jr. used to pen poems for Priyanka before the duo got married.
Abhishek 8211; Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan especially flew to New Zealand to celebrate Abhisheks 35th birthday.
Ajay 8211; Kajol Devgn: Kajol is very fond of cars and on her birthday Ajay Devgn gifted her a white Audi Q7. Her earlier car,a Mercedes,was also gifted to her by Ajay when their daughter Nysa was born.
Aamir Khan 8211; Kiran Rao: To make Rao feel special on their third wedding anniversary Khan booked a chopper to take her to their holiday home at Panchgani.
Shabana Azmi 8211; Javed Akhtar: Kathai aankhon wali ek ladki this song from the Shah Rukh -Juhi Chawla- starrer Duplicate was written for Shabana Azmi by Javedsaab when he was courting her.
