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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan poses for a picture during a promotional event for a watch company in Mumbai on Wednesday.

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Actress Aishwarya Rai might be pitted against Ben Kingsley’s wife Daniela Lavender in his dream project “Taj”, a film about Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his quest to build the Taj Mahal.

“Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play Mumtaz in the movie, if she approves the script and loves it. Daniela would be playing Kandahari Begum, Shah Jahan’s first wife in the film,” Kingsley told reporters in Panaji Monday.

The actor, who is here as guest of honour for the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), said he will play the emperor in the film.

But he feels that making “Taj” won’t be easy.

“I suppose it’s very foolish or very brave attempt to do a movie on Shah Jahan. If I can show him in a human way, if I can portray him as a man amongst us — I might be able to add to many explanations on how Taj was built,” Kingsley said.

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Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan is throwing her toys out of her cot again.

According to bollyspice.com, the actress is giving Vipul Shah a tough time for their upcoming movie Action Replay.

Reports say Ash has refused to dub for the film because she’s not happy with the way the scenes have turned out.

However, some insiders have rubbished the reports saying the shoot stalled because Shah was busy promoting London Dreams. Now that that movie is out, he’s ready to give Action Replay his full attention again.

Ash stars alongside Akshay Kumar in th

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Bollywood may not be kind to married actresses, but they sure have a special place in the ad world. Their marital status helps these heroines sell a host of goods, especially household products like soaps, biscuits and washing machines.

While Kajol is the brand ambassador of products like Knorr Soups, Olay cream, Alpenliebe candy and Whirlpool appliances, Juhi Chawla has Kurkure snacks, Ashoka pickles and soft drink Rooh Afza in her kitty.

Karisma Kapoor endorses products like Khaitan Fans, Shaktibhog flour and Priyagold biscuits. Then there is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who boasts of a glitzy lineup of products like Lux soaps, L’Oreal beauty products and Longines watches.

So what makes married actresses a hot favourite in the advertising world?

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, while endorsing a watch brand recently, said in the press meet that her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan is her inspiration when it comes to punctuality. The actress has been quoted as saying, “his commitment and dedication is an example for everyone to follow.”

The former beauty queen, who recently completed the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, has moved on to the sets of Guzarish where she will be sharing the screen space with Hrithik Roshan. Guzarish is directed by Sanjay Leela Bhasali.

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Is this what the Bachchan bahu is trying to say? In the Capital on Monday night to attend the launch of a new collection of an international watch brand, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan drew more criticism than praise. At the event held at Taj Palace Hotel, the actress looked more than a little out of shape.

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AISHWARYA Rai Bachchan has opted out of Crooked, a thriller in which she was meant to be paired opposite Abhi- shek Bachchan, as her dates were clashing with Vipul Shah’s movie about time travel, Action Replay. A search is on to replace to the actress for this movie that also stars Farhan Akthar and will be directed by Abhinay Deol, the new director in Bollywood who is also making Aamir Khan’s next home production, Delhi Belly

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The entire town is curiously looking out for Rajnikanth’s magnum opus “Endhiran –The Robot’. The film is under production for past 15 months and probably will take 4 more months to complete. Meanwhile we hear it from closer sources of unit that producers are planning to release the film by March instead of April 2010.

Recently, action oriented sequences between Rajnikanth and cops were filmed at the busiest roads of Kathipara Junction in Chennai. Peter Hein has choreographed the stunts in an extraordinary style that involves cars clashing over the air and bombs blasting continuously.

As of now, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has completed shooting for her talkie portions and has got couple of songs to be completed.

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Oscar-winning British actor Ben Kingsley, who portrayed Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi, this week announced that he will be returning to India to film Taj,a movie about India’s Mogul emperor who, for the love of his wife, ordered the construction of the famous landmark, the Taj Mahal.

Kingsley will play Shah Jahan while India’s Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will take on the role as Mumtaz Mahal in the US$30 million production, Kingsley’s production company SBK Pictures announced.

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At a time when there is a virtual scramble for first State Dinner of US President Barack Obama on November 24 in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a US news outlet has come out with its own top 10 wish list of the invitees.

Topping the list released by Politico – known for coverage of the Capitol Hill and the White House – is top industrialist Mukesh Ambani, who met the President early this year. He is followed by writer-turn activist Arundhati Roy.

“As India has assumed a larger role on the global stage, Roy has spoken out against globalisation, Indian poverty and the country’s nuclear weapons programme — though she has often stirred up controversy,” Politico said and put Thomas Friedman, author of ‘The World is Flat’ next on the list, followed by Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.