Aamir Khan dodges diet, relishes makki di roti and butter at Geeta Phogat’s wedding

Aamir Khan took a break and flew to Haryana to attend Geeta Phogat’s wedding. Geeta is the daughter of wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat, on whom Aamir Khan’s character in ‘Dangal’ is based.

This was like a personal occasion for Khan and he carried a bunch of gifts for the beautiful bride and her family. But the best part was when gave a miss to his regular diet and enjoyed makki di roti, home-made butter and yummy sweets!

“Aamir loves home-cooked food, but at the wedding he was like a child. White butter made at home was ladled heavily all over the food. He doesn’t like gajar ki halwa so he usually avoids it, but as Geeta’s family insisted he tried some, and after the first bite he had three helpings of it! He even kept urging Sakshi who eats sparingly, to have it,” an insider said.

“He had bought huge thaalis of dry fruits and saris and clothes for Geeta’s entire family. He had wanted to gift her the wedding jodaa too, but as it has to come from the girl’s mama, he didn’t. Aamir individually met and greeted all the 200 guests present there at the wedding,” they added.

Geeta is the first woman wrestler ever, to have qualified for Olympics.

‘Dangal’, helmed by Nitesh Tiwari, releases on December 23.

Ranjini Maitra

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