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Raavan brought together Tejaswini Kolhapure and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and the actresses reconnected after a long time.

Tejaswini gushes, “I was working with Ash again after our modelling days and it was great. She is just as warm as she was earlier, still loves to talk and is extremely helpful. We chatted like our old days. We spoke about our common friends, colleagues and how fashion has changed over the years as well as the shoots that we had done together,” she adds. Charmed by Ash’s professionalism, Tejaswini could not stop raving about her. “There was a scene where I had to drag her along with the rest of the people and she had to hold herself back and she performed like a tigress. In order to cope with her, I had to drag her even harder but at the back of my head all I could think of was I hope I don’t hurt her by mistake,” remembers Tejaswini.

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In her latest film Raavan in Hindi and Raavanan in Tamil, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan plays Ragini, the wife of a police officer who is abducted.

It’s a role which involved working in tough terrain, heavy rains and amongst creatures of the jungle. In this interview, she speaks about her role, the challenges of working in a bilingual and her co-artists. Excerpts of a teleconference.

All about your character in Raavan and Raavanan
There has been a lot of talk that my character is based on a modern day Sita from “Ramayan”, which is not true. I think all the stories can be drawn parallel to our epics because at the end it is all about inter-personal relationship. My character Ragini is Mani’s perception of this strong willed woman abducted by Beera. And the story is about the dynamics between the three characters- Beera, Dev and Ragini.

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Recently, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was spotted at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai shooting for a commercial for a hair oil brand. She had bright red sexy outfit on and looked gorgeous as ever. Only that we wondered after endorsing the likes of Longines, Nakshatra, Coke, Lux and others, the Bachchan Bahu has now come down to doing commercials for hair oils!!

Take a look at red hot Aishwarya Rai Bachchan adding to the soaring summer heat this season!!

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They are becoming a habit with each other. The husband-wife duo of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan confess that they thoroughly enjoy working with each other.

Guru, Sarkar Raj and now Raavan… this couple has been having a field day working together. But the beauty of this combination is that they don’t carry their work home. When curious journos asked this superstar couple whether they discuss movies in the confines of their bedroom, the couple jointly said, “No, we leave our work behind in the studios. Home is our personal space… and we have a lot to talk about other than work.” They sound quite like Kajol and Ajay Devgn, another couple that revels in each other’s company at home. No shop talk there.

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They are the most sought after onscreen and offscreen couple and individual stars, but Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan say they would never rate each other professionally.

Having worked in six films together, the couple is going to rub shoulders again for Mani Ratnam’s upcoming movie Raavan and analysing each other at work is the last thing on their mind.

“We don’t rate each other. We just like working with each other as co-actors,” Aishwarya, 36, said via telepresence from Mumbai late Friday night.

“Abhishek is a very free actor. He breaks himself free. He works as a team member and doesn’t act as a male lead or anything of that sort (on work),” added the former Miss World-turned-actress, who was wearing a white salwar kameez and a pink dupatta.

“He is a team mate fulfilling his director’s vision in every which manner he can and a pleasure to work with,” she added.

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It seems actor Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan is now looking to stamp her presence over the tennis court. Recently, Aishwarya was specially invited to France to dine with two of the most attractive women tennis players to have walked the sporting pitch — Steffi Graf and Mary Pierce. Aishwarya bonded with both of them at the charity dinner and the trio spoke about tennis, Bollywood and even world movies.

After the event, Pierce was so overwhelmed to meet Aishwarya that she invited her to come to her Mauritius villa along with her family and friends for a vacation. Sources say Aishwarya graciously accepted the request.

In this special event, Aishwarya was the guest of honour to felicitate Gustavo Kuerten, retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. A source says, “Gustavo Kuerten received an honorary award for his ground-breaking work for the disadvantaged children at a charity dinner. Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan was specially invited by the authorities to join Stefanie Graf and Mary Pierce at the event. She also gave away the prize to Gustavo whose work for the needy has impressed her a lot.”

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan had an interaction with tennis gems Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi when she attended the French Open with her parents Krishnaraj Rai and Vrinda Rai. She was present there as the brand ambassador of Longines. She handed over the Longines Prize for Elegance award to retired former World No. 1 Brazilian player Gustavo Kuerten. It was an altogether difference experience for Mrs Bachchan because award functions, party, events are common affair for Ash but standing on the tennis arena and being in the company of great tennis players like Steffi, Andre and Kuertan was a different feeling and experience.
Being the brand ambassador of Longines, Ash was given the responsibility to hand over the award to Kuertan. After retiring from the tennis world, he served for disadvantaged children. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001 and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. He retired in May 2008.
Aishwarya had a chat with Agassi and Steffi and had a charity dinner after the event. Mary Pierce, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf also endorses Longines.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gave the IIFA awards a miss, instead choosing to attend the French open in Paris on Saturday. Dressed in a bright blue gown, the actress roamed the grounds at Rolland Garros, before sitting down to watch the womens’ final, sporting a hat, sunglasses, and casually waving a fan. Ash, who was accompanied by her parents Krishnaraj and Vrinda Rai, did not stay till the end of the match.

Surprisingly, Ash got anything but a VIP treatment at the match — the cameras did not focus on her even once. “She wasn’t given any coverage… I saw the entire match,” posted a blogger afterwards. “They didn’t even show her on telly!” posted another.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s arch rival and may-be-successor Katrina Kaif may have broken up with her Godfather & mentor cum boyfriend Salman Khan (most certainly, due to a visible age difference with Salman’s skin fattening up and head balding up). But, the Raajneeti actress has found a new love in her life.
Ranbir Kapoor, this may interest you. Kat has confessed her newly found love and unfortunately it has got nothing to do with you. Uncanny & bizarre it may sound but Katrina has fallen for a mouse (and no! We are not referring to the cute, lovable Jerry who has a love-hate relationship with Tom just like a Salman-Shahrukh). The mouse we are referring to sits stationery at Katrina’s house responding only to her touch. (Zara Zara Touch me touch me baby……..)
Actually, ssshh…..but the closely guarded secret is that Katty has been smitten by her computer mouse who takes her along for shopping and ensures that the beautiful maiden doesn’t has to face the hassles of public gaze and fan frenzy.