hahid Kapoor had decided to make the event grander than any other movie events, but had made careful selections for the guest list. Which was much noted with the absence of the Royal bride, Kareena Kapoor or his ex-flame. But he chose to invite Priyanka Chopra and Vidya Balan who were allegedly having an affair with Shahid. As he snubbed his first celebrity love Kareena, some people decided to snub him back. The most prominent were both Vidya and Priyanka who were not present at the event.
The event did go colorful though with the leading stars such as Shahid and Sonam accompanied by Genelia D'Souza, Bipasha Basu, Sonakshi Sinha, Amisha Patel, Kangna Ranaut, Tabu, his Dil Bole Hadippa costar Rani Mukerji, Aayesha Takia and even Amrita Rao (who happens to be Shahid's ex-love as well). But the absence of Priyanka and Vidya did not go without discussion. The reason for which the actors failed to attend sounded quite genuine, a source at the function said "The two actresses are busy with their work, Vidya is working on Dirty Picture and Priyanka is at the award function at Delhi with SRK, so they did miss the premiere".
Although it is said that the co-actor for Vidya in Dirty Picture, Tushaar Kapoor had took few hours break to attend the birthday function of Hum Tum Shabana director Sunil Chainani, but this option did not go with Vidya for moving out of the camp. The fact that Priyanka could have also missed the award function did have a stir in the crowd.
The other two actors, Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor, who did make their names into discussion with their absence. Both Imran and Ranbir are close buddies to Shahid and this was the reason why their names got discussed too much. Imran Khan although had made his representation with his wife Avantikaa and she was accompanied by Ayaan Mukherjee. Although the miss of Ranbir was kind of expected with Sonam Kapoor, who was his ex-love, attending the function. A source mentioned "Shahid knew that Ranbir will be missing the function with Sonam attending it".
Although another person close to Ranbir did mention "Ranbir was scheduled to attend the function but is now tied to the shooting sets of Chandivili". Another silent rumour went out that Imran opted out of the function since the opening of movie Mausam was higher than Mere Brother Ki Dulhan. Although the opening profits were confirmed by the producer "Yes, we did a 15 per cent higher gross opening than Mere Brother Ki Dulhan's registered opening".
