It was a 2-hour stopover in Patna for Aamir Khan. But he won more hearts in those two hours than Shah Rukh Khan did on that seriously botched-up visit to advertise Don 2 in Patna last December.
Confirming his proximity to the grassroots Aamir swept in to Patna post-noon interacted with area people and left by late afternoon by road to wait his friend's wedding in Varanasi.
Aamir was so one can attend the marriage of a Varanasi autorickshaw driver Ram Lakhan's son. Ram Lakhan had travelled to Mumbai to personally invite Aamir.
Says a member of his entourage, "Aamir had never visited Patna. He took a flight from Mumbai to Patna, mingled with the locals for 2 hours after which left by car to achieve his friend's son's wedding the similar evening."
In Patna he took day off to prevent at a roadside dhaba to have the Bihari delicacy litti-chokha. The incredulous and ecstatic food vendor served Aamir a plate stuffed with 5 large littis. Aamir had two litti. He then requested the litti-wallah to let him take the remainder three littis to eat within the car.
Aamir then sped away at the highway from Patna to Varanasi with the promise of returning to the Bihar capital within the near future.
