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Farhan Akhtar production Crooked has been in the news because it was supposed to star real life couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. However, he was told that Aishwarya had date problems and couldn’t do the film.

Names of Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone were speculated as replacements for Ash. But surprisingly, it was VJ-turned-model and former Miss India Sarah Jane who has been signed for the film. Sarah is currently doing a southern film.

However, director Abhinav Deo and producers Farhan and Ritesh Sidhwani are unwilling to comment.

They plan to announce details soon in a grand launch. The movie also stars Gul Panag.

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With ‘Baby’, who? It’s Aishwarya Rai’s dear hubby. The commonly used endearment is the way Ash loves to call Abhishek.

Pleased as a punch and shouting ‘baby, baby’, Ash was cheering Abhishek Bachchan at a recently held fashion show, when he walked the ramp. So the secret was out, Abhi is ‘baby’ for Ash.

What else? The busy-bee Ash has stolen some time to be with her ‘baby’ for this New Year and where is the couple heading to? It’s the same place where half of the Bollywood is gathering for the 31st night celebrations. Yes, Goa!

Ash has disclosed her plans on her networking site. Guess who else are in Goa for this New Year – Vivek Oberoi and Salman Khan.

Hai na twist!

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Barely has the Big B concluded hosting Bigg Boss 3, we hear that he has been roped in for the next season, apparently at a much heftier fee than the reported Rs 1.5 crore he was paid per episode. The show begins in the second-half of 2010, after Abhishek’s game show Bingo plays itself out.

Amitabh Bachchan says, “There are some other television offers. I’m considering them. It wouldn’t be prudent to mention their names at this point. Yes, the channel has expressed a desire to continue the relationship.”

They are also going all out to woo Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, apparently to host a chat show. Convincing Aishwarya at this stage of her career when her calendar is full is proving to be problematic.

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Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan will ring in the New Year in Goa. A source from the unit says, “Abhishek is shooting for Ashutosh Gowariker’s Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, in Goa. It has been a month-long schedule. Although it is almost over, the cast and crew will be shooting till the evening of December 31. So Abhishek has decided to bring in New Year in Goa with Ashutosh and others. Aishwarya Rai will be joining him.

Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya’s presence in Goa is not too sure as they are both busy. However, Amitabh, he might just join them at the last moment. Deepika Padukone is not present in the current schedule and won’t be a part of the New Year celebration. Since Hrithik and his family will also be in Goa, one might see the Roshans and Bachchans bringing in the year together.” Abhishek’s spokesperson says, “He is not shooting on December 31 but he will be spending the New Year with his family.”

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Well, what can one say when an astounding beauty like Aishwarya Rai is shooting right under one’s nose? Nothing except admire her for her beauty of course.

That’s not what our chocolate boy hero of bollywood did when he had seen her several years ago shooting for his dad’s home production.

The film was Aa Ab Laut Chale, this was Rishi Kapoor’s film and it starred Aishwarya with Akshay Khanna among other artists.

It so happened that Ranbir Kapoor would go to see the shooting everyday and he really became an ardent fan of her. So, he started to make paintings of her during the shooting itself. He hid himself and painted to avoid embarrassment. But, Aishwarya knew about it and she also did not want to embarrass the teenager so she said nothing to him.

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The handsome Kapoor boy, Ranbir met Abhishek & Aishwarya at the premiere of Paa and he was caught blushing!

The story is that Ranbir first met the gorgeous actress a decade earlier when she was shooting for Rishi Kapoor’s Aa Ab Laut Chalen. Ranbir was assisting his father at that time. Being her ardent fan, Ranbir was completly star struck! As Rishi and Ash were busy discussing a shot, teenage Ranbir started making a quick sketch. Laterit was Rishi Kapoor who had impulsively pulled away his notepad and discovered that there was a sketch of Aishwariya!

Ranbir blushed while Ash narrated this incident to Abhishek at the premiere!

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She is complimented as being “the most beautiful woman in the world” in the same breath as she is criticized for being a “plastic face who can’t act”. But that doesn’t deter Aishwarya Rai Bachchan much. With big-ticket international projects such as Bride & Prejudice, The Mistress of Spices, The Last Legion and The Pink Panther 2, she has already become the most popular face of Indian cinema globally. Early this year, she was awarded the Padmashree, and was also invited to accept the second-highest Order Of France, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, which she refused to collect as she didn’t want to leave the bedside of her ailing father. When she made an appearance at Cannes with “hardly recognized” husband Abhishek in tow, it made quite a story back home. But, Ash handled it with elan, having metamorphosed into the perfect bahu, who made the right sounds about pa, ma and hubby. Clearly, a beauty with brains!

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There were news that actress Aishwarya Rai was being unprofessional which and she was delaying Vipul Shah’s movie ‘Action Replay’.

But the director defends her saying that the actress is being targeted.

Shah says, “It is really annoying. We are used to gossips but this seems like a personal attack on Ash. ‘Action Replay’ has been shot in sync sound so no dubbing is required. So where is the question of her refusing to dub for it?”

The director has informed that just 12 days work is left in which three songs and couple of scenes is to be shot.

Folks, there were reports that said, Ash has refused to shoot a Pritam’s composition. But shah says, “Not even Amitabh Bachchan or Akshay Kumar were present at music sittings. When these reports started, Ash was shooting for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan in Kerala.”

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The cinematic genius Ben Kingsley and the world’s most beautiful lady Aishwarya Rai are coming together to re-ignite history’s most passionate & profound romance as they portray Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal in the former’s next production ‘Taj.’

27 years after captivating the cinematic world with the projection of the revered Mahatma Gandhi in the Oscar-winning film ‘Gandhi’,Ben Kingsley has chosen to play the mighty Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the $ 25-30 million production under his company SBK pictures. Abhishek was rumored to play the emperor’s part but quenching all those rumors, Ben has publicly announced his ultimate decision. “With my passion for India and the Taj Mahal now becoming one of the seven wonders of the world, I am compelled to ask ‘why’ and ‘how’ this scream of grief frozen in marble came into being,” he quipped.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, one of the few hot married actresses of bollywood and daughter-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan, who plays lead opposite Hrithik Roshan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming flick ‘Guzaarish’, has taken leave from the shooting for the premiere of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek, Vidya starrer ‘Paa’.

Sources close to Bachchan family say that Amitabh was finding it difficult to cope with the invitations and other formalities of upcoming premiere of ‘Paa’, as his better half Jaya Bachchan was in Delhi attending Parliament. Even Abhishek Bachchan was not available to help him in the task (shooting in Goa for Ashutosh Gowarikar), and Big B, at this age, was finding the going very tough for himself.

It was at this juncture that Aishwarya Rai, who has been busily shooting with Hrithik Roshan for ‘Guzaarish’, decided to take leave to help her father- in- law in his task.