After being chased by the film’s producers for a long time, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan is finally ready to become a Heroine. As the Bachchan bahu takes up Madhur Bhandarkar’s next, her kitty is going to be full this year, pushing Sanjay Dutt’s Satte Pe Satta (SPS) to 2

While Ash’s spokesperson refused to comment, it’s learnt that she is facing “major date issues” since she has already committed the rest of her time in 2011 to Ladies And Gentlemen with husband Abhishek Bachchan. Industry sources insist that in such a scenario, Aishwarya isn’t going to take up the SPS remake anytime soon. “Ash has such a challenging role in Heroine that she isn’t taking up any other film until she finishes it,” says a source who did not wish to be named.

Waiting for Ash
SPS director Soham Shah, too, has no idea about Ash’s inclusion in the film. “I have no confirmation whether she is doing the film or not. We are still working out the details. Only Sanjay sir (Dutt) can comment on the status of her participation,” says Soham, who informs that the film goes on floors in July. For some time now, reports have been rife that Ash has kept Dutt on hold for a long time to reprise Hema Malini’s role in the remake.

Later, it was suggested that Dutt was upset with Ash. But the actor insisted he is prepared to “wait till eternity for her,” adding, “It will be a pleasure working with Ash if she agrees to do Satte Pe Satta.” It is believed that the actor has informed SPS makers that she’ll be able to take up the movie only next year if they are willing to wait. Coming back to Heroine, Madhur plans to shoot his ambitious venture in a start-to-finish schedule. But he might take a break in July.
The movie was first offered to Kareena Kapoor who declined because she wasn’t happy with the intimate scenes in the script. Following her refusal, Madhur put the film on the backburner till UTV, the co-producers, decided to approach Aishwarya instead.

Recently it was the fourth wedding anniversary of Abhishek Bachchan and surreal beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and the duo celebrated it with their close friends and family members.

Post party I was in discussion with a bollywood industry analyst, and he shared that both Abhishek and Ash have done a fabulous job by creating a wonderful media image which is kind of an in-the-face to the people who were speculating various things like this couple would fall apart very soon. Rather Abhishek and Aishwarya are madly in love with each other.

From close friends of Abhishek Bachchan understand that Abhi always try to find space for Aishwarya and even if his usual day goes into shootings, promoting films, attending events, still he constantly keeps in touch with his wife.

Here is wishing the couple a long and successful life just like Amitabh and Jaya.

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After four years of marriage and an equal number of headline grabbing appearances on the French Riviera, Aishwarya Rai will be going solo at the Cannes red carpet this time, thanks to husband Abhishek Bachchan’s packed schedule.

The Bollywood beauty won’t have Abhishek on her arm this time around as he will be busy shooting in Russia.

“I can’t go this year to Cannes with Aishwarya. We were there together last year to promote ‘Raavan’. But this year I will be shooting in Russia that time,” Abhishek said.

This will be the actress’ tenth consecutive Cannes outing and Abhishek is proud of the achievement.

“I am very proud of her. I think she is the only Indian actress to have that,” said the 35-year-old actor.

The couple made their debut at the coveted film festival in 2007, while Aishwarya’s first appearance was in 2002 with her ‘Devdas’ co-star Shah Rukh Khan.

Stardom isn’t exactly a cakewalk for our celebs. Take the handsome couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan for example. The duo have had a busy year churning one release after the other and now they don’t even have time to take a holiday off for their fourth wedding anniversary!

Abhishek, who is looking forward to the relase of his film Dum Maaro Dum on 22nd April, will be busy promoting the Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar and Rana Daggubati starrer. And to add to his cramped dates, he will immediately start shooting for Abbas-Mustan’s Players after DMD with a huge star cast of Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Omi Vaidya.

Last year, Abhi had taken Ash to the US on their anniversary. The year before that, the two were busy with Mani Ratnam’s Raavan but had managed to take some time off for themselves. On their first anniversary in 2008, Aishwarya had joined Abhishek in Miami as he was shooting for Dostana with John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra.

But this year, Aishwarya Rai is taking it a bit easy and doesn’t have any projects in hand. We’re sure she can have a nice surprise planned for her hubby on 20th April. Any ideas?

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to re-launch her hit official website after almost four years; says she will talk to her fans and also reply to all mails

Her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan is a dedicated blogger, husband Abhishek Bachchan is comfortable on a micro-blogging site, but Aishwarya Rai Bachchan chooses to interact with her fans through her official website. She is in the process of reviving her website that has been defunct for the last four years.

More and more actors are now realising the importance of being connected to their fans.

Most B-Town actors now have a presence on one or more social networking sites and the number of ‘friends’ or ‘followers’ they have seems to have become a measure of how popular they are. Ash has stayed away from networking sites. The Bachchan bahu says, “My former ( Hollywood) manager had created a website (aishwaryaworldforever) for me way back, much before these sites became popular. It had many great tools, and my favourite was one where you could just chat. It was great. I thoroughly enjoyed that… But the year I got married, I actually shut it.”

Ash adds, “I wanted to change many things on the website because initially I was too lazy/busy and I didn’t sit on the design. It’s three-and-a-half-years now that I have put it off. I put it on the backburner while adjusting to the changes — career, marriage, etc. Now, I have started work on it and will re-launch it soon.” When she shut down the site, it used to garner approximately three million hits per day, a record by any Indian actor.

Till her site is not functional, she will use her husband and pa-in-law’s profile to clear the air about any rumours and controversies. “I can always go on there and say what I have to.” What about the trend of actors hiring managers to blog/tweet on their behalf, will she resort to that when busy? “You hear about a lot of colleagues having actually employed people to tweet. Is it honest anymore? You think people can’t see it? If they don’t, great for them but I can’t be doing that,” she concludes.

His long cherished dream of winning the world cup for India having come true, Sachin Tendulkar is now in the mood to celebrate.

The Little Master has apparently sent invites to some Bollywood folks as well, we hear. In fact, Amitabh Bachchan has confirmed on his blog that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have been invited by Sachin.

“I messaged Sachin and Harbhajan on their marvelous victory and true to their spirit they responded, as always. Abhishek and Aishwarya have been invited tonight to a celebration by Sachin. The joyous mood retains its vigor,” Big B wrote on his blog.

The mega star went on to add that sports and entertainment are two unifiers of people.

“A prominent author and thinker on a public platform admitted that sport and film were the two most fertile ingredients in bringing a nation together. Nothing could be truer. They always were and shall always be, a unifier!” Big B wrote.

Normally, the Bachchans used to avoid watching the cricket matches live because they harboured a superstition that watching the match would lead to India’s defeat. But they watched the final match on Saturday and after India’s win the trio of Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya took to streets to celebrate the win with aam aadmi.

Bollywood’s super couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are ecstatic at India’s victory against Sri Lanka in the World Cup final here Saturday. While Aishwarya says she screamed when India won, Abhishek reveled on the streets to celebrate the win.

“Delirious with joy! Screamed myself hoarse…Love India and love the Indian team. Full power and god bless…and Much love to Sachin…so so sooooo happy. Team India is the besssstttt,” Aishwarya said in a SMS released by her publicist.

Both Abhishek and Aishwarya chose to stay at home to watch the match, instead of going to catch the action live at the Wankhede stadium Saturday. However, Abhishek came out of his house wrapped in an Indian flag. He stood of the sunroof of his car, and celebrated with a whole lot of fans who gathered outside the Bachchan house late at night.

He danced with them, shook hands and waved out – to join in the festivities triggered by India’s second World Cup victory after 28 years.

Abhishek Bachchan took it upon himself to get Aishwarya and Sonam Kapoor into the friendship zone again…

Actor Abhishek Bachchan is full of energy, and is a great person to have on the sets. After starring with Sonam Kapoor in Dilli 6, Abhishek and Sonam will be seen sharing screen space once again in the movie ‘Players’.

While they were shooting in New Zealand for the movie, Abhishek’s wife, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan decided to visit him on the sets. Aishwarya and Sonam’s alleged war has been much spoken about. There were rumours that Ash didn’t want Sonam to walk the red carpet with her at Cannes, and there were also reports that Sonam went ahead and called her ‘Auntyji’, those both have been refuted by now.

There were reports that both these actors made up in the course of time and all was well between them. However, once Aishwarya reached New Zealand, Abhishek, we hear, did everything to sort out the issues. Ash and Sonam became friends and even went shopping post that, is what we hear.

So while there camaraderie seemed superfluous until now, Abhishek ensured that his co-star Sonam, and his wife Ash share some ‘real’ moments.

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was the first choice to be cast opposite Abhishek Bachchan in the recently released ‘Game’, informs Abhinay Deo. She had even read the script and liked it. However, by the time he finalized the rest of the casting Aishwarya had already given away her dates.

That’s when Abhinay decided to cast a new face instead, and Sarah Jane Dias was introduced to Bollywood. It can be remembered that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan don’t do very many movies together just for the sake of doing them. They require substance and a certain sort of conviction.

However, it wasn’t like Ash was not convinced about ‘Game’ insists Director Deo, who is keen to cast the light-eyed beauty in his next. Will Ash be ‘game’ for that one now?

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan were last seen together on the big screen in the film Raavan. Well fans of the couple will be pleased to hear that they are now set to star together in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Ladies & Gentleman, that tells the story of an unfaithful husband and his wife.

This film will see a few firsts for the couple; Abhishek will play a womanizer for the first time in his career and will be seen romancing several ladies, it will also be the couple’s first romantic-comedy together.

The role was offered to Aishwarya five years ago but due to lack of dates the actress had to turn down the role.

On speaking about Aishwarya’s role in the film, director Raj Kumar Santoshi tells the media that, “Aishwarya is perfect for this film. Though Aishwarya has done comedy before, this is a new genre for Abhishek and for them as a pair.” He goes on to say that “This comedy takes me into the same genre as Andaz Apna Apna and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. But the humor here is not slapstick.”

Ladies and Gentlemen will also see Raj Kumar Santoshi start a new banner named after his late mother who passed away last year. Shooting for the film is set to start in July.