India, July 5 -- Actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan remain one of Bollywood's most talked-about couples, yet they rarely speak publicly about their relationship. However, in a recent interview with Nayandeep Rakshit, Abhishek opened up about his first real-life meeting with Aishwarya and also praised her for playing a pivotal role in their daughter Aaradhya Bachchan's upbringing.

Abhishek recalled how, during a location recce for his father Amitabh Bachchan's film Mrityudaata, he was in Switzerland with director Mehul Kumar and their head of production, Shagun Vag. His mother, Jaya Bachchan, had sent him along since he had grown up and studied in a boarding school there, making him familiar with the locales. Coincidental...