Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says he feels humbled after receiving the NDTV Indian of the Year award on Wednesday night.

This year, to coincide with its 21st anniversary, NDTV also honoured Indian icons of the last 21 years - among them, Amitabh Bachchan.

On his blog, Bachchan wrote about the ceremony, which he attended with his wife, Jaya, and his daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

“NDTV Indian of the Year acknowledging 21 years of the existence of the channel and simultaneously acknowledging Indians that have been an inspiration for the country in these 21 years!!”

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It is believed that the star is now being offered a whopping 10 crores for a film. Producer and National Award winner Bobby Pushkarna of Page 3 fame is said to have relentlessly pursued Aishwarya for almost three months to get her to agree to do his film. And it is believed that he had even decided that if Ash would not do his film, then he will not make it.

However you can’t blame the actress for becoming pricier by the day, if produces are willing to chase her around to work for them, one can’t blame her for superciliousness.

The leading lady is at present shooting for ‘Action Replay’, ‘Guzaarish’ and ‘Robot.’

By Jilawatan Life does strange things to people. Especially for people who are in the same proportion are more prone to life’s whimsical fancies. This is exactly what Aishwarya and Abhishek must have felt when they must have heard that they would have to go to a place after so many years where perhaps memories of yester years would be imbedded in every nook and corner.

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Recently Aishwarya has been really busy shooting for her forth coming films that she had to take a decision on the role in the film called ‘Crooked’ by producer Ritesh Sidhwani.This film has Abhishek Bachchan in the lead role with Sarah Jane Dias as his leading lady. The other actresses in the film are Shahana Goswami of the Farhan Akhtar Starrer film ‘Rock On’, Gul Panang. The role that Ash was supposed to play was poised opposite to Abhishek’s character.
In the film she was supposed to catch the gang of thieves and Abhishek was on top of the gang. Thus, according to reports, the role of coming bang opposite to Abhishek did not go well with Ash’s idea of acting in the same film as her husband, so she was not hesitant to give up the role which was lapped up by the Pakistani beauty Sonya Jehan.
Another version of the story goes that since the shooting of this film started on the 14th of January, Aishwarya was very busy with her other commitments and so she had to let go the gutsy role from her kitty. Some grapevine reports also suggest that the director and producer have confirmed the replacement saying that Sonya was brought in as she also has fair skin, light eyes and is very pretty, which fitted the character that was required for the film.

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Perfect hair, fit body and her ability to carry that red has made many of us spend hours before the mirror.

Natural beauty at its best – or is it?

It seems not. Our source tells us that she may be one of the most beautiful women in the world, but she still needed some help before the ad hit our telly screens. So what kind of help would an ex Ms World, who is known the world over for her gorgeous figure, light eyes and perfect beauty, need?

“Aishwarya’s assets have been enhanced. She does have a great figure, but her waist has been narrowed in. And her cleavage was given a little help too,” says our source. And we couldn’t help but notice the strong definition of her jaw line.

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If grapevine is to be believed, Karan Johar is toying with the idea of finally working with Aishwarya Rai, with whom he hasn’t made a single project in his over decade-long career.

“Karan said that Aishwarya is his ideal heroine and all the scripts that he writes are keeping her in mind. He also said that various reasons have veered them from working together. But he is hoping that it is the right time that he gets her to work in his production sometime soon,” said a source, who overheard Karan’s conversation with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

The two filmmakers were discussing Aishwarya at Sonali Bendre’s birthday party Dec 31.

“Sanjay Leela Bhansali was overheard telling Karan Johar that Aishwarya is very original and there is no one like her. He further said that if a director has not worked with her in his or her career, it’s a big loss for them. Sanjay also praised her work in Guzaarish,” the source said.

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In her recent Lux advertisement, the couple cashed in on the baby news too. Aish asked Abhi to reveal the good news to the world, but the news was about some gold coins.

The latest is that Aishwarya has written on her social networking site that she will be spending her time with her baby – Abhishek Bachchan in Goa.

What a way to keep the audiences guessing!

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Some scenes in the film will have Ash learning martial arts from the hero.

Aishwarya, who has done action scenes for ‘Dhoom 2′ and ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, is busy brushing up her action skills. She is learning Karate from Ramesh master so that she could perform her part naturally.

The big budget extravaganza, a science fiction made by showman Shankar, has Rajnikanth playing two roles: One of them is a scientist and the other, a robot he creates. A.R Rahman scores the music for the film.

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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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Aishwarya made up with Shah Rukh Khan at Karan Johar’s birthday party this year. Things went bitter between the two after SRK replaced Ash with Rani Mukherji in ‘Chalte Chalte’ in 2003.