Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan while recalling her 'sudden engagement' with Abhishek Bachchan in 2007 said, "We're South Indians, so, I don't know what a 'roka' is." She added, "Suddenly there is this call from their house to ours; 'we are coming'." After Bachchan family arrived at their house, Aishwarya asked her mother, "Is this an engagement? Like, what just happened?"