Aishwarya Rai’s daughter, Aaradhya Bachchan’s gesture towards Shiva Rajkumar at the recently held SIIMA 2024 won the hearts of the fans across the country. Aaradhya and Aishwarya attended the event held in Dubai. The actress bagged the Best Actress Critics award in a leading role category for her 2023 film Ponniyin Selvan: II. Later, after winning the award, she along with her Ponniyin Selvan co-star, Vikram, can be seen walking hand in hand. As she descended the stairs, Aishwarya was warmly received into a tight embrace from Aaradhya. Shiva Rajkumar, who passed by, halted to engaged in small talk with Vikram.
After some minutes, Aishwarya walked up to Shiva and greeted him with a handshake. She then introduced her daughter to which Shiva Rajkumar responded by extending his hand, too. In respect, Aaradhya bowed down in greeting and then touched his feet. Shiva Rajkumar blessed her and folded his hands at Aaradhya.
A paparazzo shared the video on Instagram, to which the netizens reacted with comments such as, “Wow. Just wow. Why I am getting very happy. That’s so pure. Must appreciate sanskara (culture) of Aishwarya Rai’s daughter. Can’t find such teenagers anymore.”
“Nice gesture by Aaradaya. It is lovely to see shivanna, Vikram and Aishwarya in one frame,” commented an Instagram user. “Aradhaya did pranam instead of doing hand shake now that shows a real example of greeting in our culture. Aishwarya raised a very humble and cultured child,” wrote another fan.
