Abhi - Ash now inseparable: Top astrologer from Mulky

18 January 2007

Who is this man revered by the country's most wanted and chased celebrities, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan?
Why would Bollywood's iconic family travel from Mumbai's 'Jalsa' to this man from a small town, Mulky, in Karnataka — Chandrashekar Swami?
Who is this self-professed Swami, what makes him tick?
TOI probed into his life and times and the Swami spoke from Mangalore. "Lot of people challenged that the marriage of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan would never happen. Aishwarya's horoscope has a 'kuja dosha' but it also has 'raja yoga'.
It is an extraordinary horoscope with fantastic qualities. I have performed 'homas' for Rai's family, I know her father Krishnaraj Rai for 10 years now. It is once in 600 years that you come across such a horoscope as Aishwarya's."
And what about the typical tales of celebrity couples headed for splitsville sooner or later? "This is a God-made couple, no force can separate them. Aishwarya has a powerful presence of Venus in her, beauty and buddhi (intelligence), she knows exactly what to talk where.
Amitabh Bachchan's career soared to great heights after his marriage. Similarly, every film of Abhishek Bachchan will be an extraordinary hit because of the influence of Aishwarya," he declares.
Bollywood's most watched wedding, he says, is slated to be sometime between February 1 and March 7. A decision would be taken after February 5, which is also Bachchan Jr's birthday, says Swami.
Chandrashekar Swami's meteoric rise to overnight fame is not unprecedented. His clientele extends from the dunes of Arabia to the bylanes of Mulky, a town in Mangalore.
Sample some names — Vijay Mallya, Delhi-based industrialist Vijay Srivastav, Mahendra Sharma, Congress politico D K Shivakumar, H Vishwanath, G Parameshwar, the Saudi prince, thespian Dr Rajkumar's family.
Reading and analysing planetary positions was not a one-day task for him. Having completed his schooling and college from Vijaya College, Mulky, he went to a small town in Kerala to study Atharvana Veda and has been honing his skills for over 13 years now.
His USP, as some of his 'clients' talk of, is suggesting remedial measures for 'defects' in horoscopes and the environs of people. Even a week ago, he performed a 'homa' for the benefit of former home minister Subodh Kanth Sahai.
(Times News Network)