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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.”

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Exclusivity has always been the buzzword in tinsel town. And the same holds true for Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. The story goes like this, Ash’s ex-international celebrity manager Simone Sheffield, wanted to represent actor Mallika Sherawat, along with Rai-Bachchan, in the international movie world. “But

I couldn’t do it because there was a conflict,” says Simone. “Ash preferred me not to represent anyone else from India as long as I was working with her.” Ash’s India-based spokesperson, though, calls the news “totally untrue.”
Often touted as India’s best import to Hollywood, Ash is no longer associated with Simone. After nearly ten years, she has officially terminated her relationship with Aishwarya as her international representative. “I really don’t want to get into what happened between us. But it was the right time to part ways. Aishwarya and I have worked long enough making it a wonderful association. I am happy that I introduced her to the international market and wish her well in life,” says the LA-based celebrity manager.

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I haven’t spoken with Rituda recently, the last was during the National Awards,” says Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. She however confirms that the she’s discussed a screen adaptation of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s famous Bengali novel, Devi Chaudhurani, with the director with whom she had earlier collaborated on Chokher Bali, adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s Binodini, and Raincoat, inspired by a short story by O Henry.

Devi Chaudhurani was first published in 1884 and later translated into English by Subodh Chunder Mitter. It chronicled the revolutionary charge by a woman at a time when most were still behind purdah (veil). Threatened by Devi Chaudhurani’s patriotic fervour that brought more women out on the streets, the British banned the book. The ban was lifted only post-Independence.

Rituparno had reportedly approached Aishwarya for the Hindi-Bengali bilingual when they were filming Chokher Bali and got a nod from her when she was in Kolkata last year to accept a Best Actress award for Raavan.

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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani missed the opportunity to meet his favourite Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as she was not there at Mohali to watch the World Cup semi final.

Pakistan PM is a die hard fan of Ash. He has also penned down his admiration for Ash in his book that he had written at the time of imprisonment during the rule of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff.

Pranab Mukherjee’s former aide stated “Gilani has clearly written in his book, Chah-e-Yousuf Saay Sada, that he used to watch Rai-Bachchan’s movies on his laptop while he was in prison (during 2001-06) during the Pervez Musharraf regime.”

He said further, “Since then, he’s been an ardent fan of the actor. We had discovered that while doing our research in scheduling his meeting with the then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee in 2008.”

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Earlier we reported about the Indian beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan honoring Hollywood’s wolverine Hugh Jackman at FICCI Frames and now following the event, two are even planning to work together.

At the event SRK and Hugh got together and interacted about cinema and also how the gap is narrowing between Hollywood and Bollywood. At the backstage Ash met Hugh’s wife Deborah and bonded quite well with her. They both chatted and even exchanged numbers to stay in touch with each other.

Earlier also Ash has worked with the likes of Colin Firth, Steve Martin, etc among many other Hollywood stars.

Let’s see when Aishwarya will be seen with Hollywood star Hugh Jackman.

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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.

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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?

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Excuse moi while I answer this call on my kaaliberry. It’s a parinda from Andheri’s Lokhandwala Complex, claiming to have a nugget on Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The global beauty was sporting enough to sing a few lines of the track, All that jazz… at a FICCI event recently.

Seems like Manasi Scott, who was crooning the chartbuster, was encouraging every one in the audience to join her.

While Karan Johar excused himself saying he had a sore throat, Shah Rukh Khan politely declined. That’s when Ash agreed to sing a few lines, inspiring Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman, who was also present for the function, to join in.

Chalo, badhiya hai.

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Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in the remake of his 1982 classic Satte Pe Satta along with Sanjay Dutt and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. While Sanjay Dutt and Aishwarya Rai will take over from Amitabh and Hema Malini, director Soham Shah will be taking over from Raj Sippy.

Soham, who directed Luck and Kaal, convinced the Big B to introduce all the seven brothers in the beginning of the film. While we don’t know about the female ensemble cast, the brothers include Shreyas Talpade, Kunak Khemu, Rajpal Yadav, Tusshar Kapoor, Siddhant Kapoor and Omi Vaidya.

The original ‘Satte Pe Satta’ was “inspired” from the 1954 Hollywood comedy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

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It is a known fact in Bollywood that off screen couple performs miserably in box office and seldom do any of their films becomes a success. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan is no exception to the rule. Right from Dhai Akshar Prem ke to Raavan nothing for this happy couple has done any wonder in the box office. However, both the couple would again try their luck in their latest movie Ladies and Gentleman which has an interesting storyline. It is about a cheating husband and his wife.

Considering that the two Aishwarya and Abhishek can’t even now keep their hands off each other it would be a very different kind of movie where Abhishek would be cheating on Aishwarya on screen. Raj Kumar Santoshi is the director and he wanted to do the film for a long time.