Anil Ambani and wife Tina in a pink sari (picture by Anindya Shankar Ray) at a star hotel on Sunday afternoon and (below) Aamir Khan during his last visit to the city

What is the one offer Calcutta makes that the rich and the famous just cannot refuse? A wedding invite.

Super Sunday saw the star hotels overflowing with high-profile visitors as Calcutta played the wedding card with a double bill that brought Anil and Tina Ambani to town in the afternoon and Aamir Khan and wife Kiran Rao in the evening.

City-based industrialist Ghanshyam Sarda’s daughter Prerna’s engagement to Abhinav, son of Mumbai-based Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, a director in the Anil Ambani wing of the Reliance empire, was a “grand” vegetarian affair at The Oberoi Grand in the afternoon with Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Rajasthani and Thai on the menu and a parade of stars on the guest list.

The star guests from out of town? The Ambani couple, Union minister Praful Patel, stock market guru Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Bollywood’s Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Aamir and Kiran didn’t make it to the engagement, but turned up at the Sarda residence in Alipore in the evening. It was a zip-zap-zoom special appearance by the actor, who had last visited the city with Kiran and the 3 Idiots gang six days after the release of the film in 2009.

When asked by Metro on Sunday night about his city plans, the superstar texted: “I am actually on my way to the airport flying out to Bombay now. Aamir.”

While Aamir and Kiran were at the Sardas’, a party was playing at Taj Bengal for CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya’s son Avishek’s wedding. The suitable girl? Koeli, daughter of the late Shantanu Mitter.

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On the menu were more than 100 items ranging from Italian to Thai, Mexican to Indian (with many trademark Rajasthani dishes). The music menu had English ditties from the 1960s and ’70s with a sprinkling of recent hits.

With such a star shower, the city hotels saw a mad scramble for rooms this weekend in what is traditionally a dry season.