Actors Hema Malini and Dharmendra’s second daughter, Ahana Deol married businessman Vaibhav Vora in Mumbai in a big fat Bollywood wedding on February 2. Two familiar faces were missing from among the celebrity guests who came dressed in their best – the bride’s elder half-brothers Sunny and Bobby Deol.Their’s was an expected absence, however, and was not remarked on as it was in 2012 when both skipped Ahana’s elder sister Esha’s wedding, raising eyebrows.
According to sources, step brothers Sunny and Bobby’s absence was expected as both Hema and Dharmendra did not want to hurt Prakash Deol (Sunny and Bobby’s mother), and hence decided it was better if both the brothers skipped the wedding. Dharmendra, who converted to Islam to marry Hema, never divorced his first wife and has maintained two separate families ever since.
Sunny and Bobby’s absence was more than made up for by a large contingent of VIP guests including the Bachchans, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and others.