By Jilawatan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has gone slow in signing any new films. This can be confirmed from the fact that the pretty woman doesn’t have a single (yes you read it right) film in hand right now. No, it isn’t because of ‘Guzaarish’, ‘Action Replayy’ and ‘Raavan’ biting the dust. The actress still has filmmakers queuing up to lap her on. However the lady hasn’t given a nod to any of them hence kick starting many a speculation.

“It isn’t surprising at all that Aishwarya has suddenly put brakes on her acting career,” says an industry insider, “Last year was quite tough for her when she had as many as four releases, including ‘Endhiran’/'Robot’. In fact for the Rajnikanth starrer, her only successful film of the year, she had invested more than two years. She couldn’t afford dedicate much time on her personal life.”

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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has always maintained a respectable relationship with megastar Amitabh Bachchan but the same cannot be said with ‘Bachchan bahu’ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The face-off started when Ash abandoned Aamir Khan’s project Mangal Pandey at the last minute. Then Aamir called up his good friend Rani Mukherjee, who finally appeared in the film.

Buzz up!
However, they finally patched up after so many years and that happened at the 10th wedding anniversary of Akshay Kumar and his wife Twinkle. Ash and Aamir had a cold war, since these years but now they have settled the issues.

Usually, Ash does not stay in any party for more than 10 minutes but when she came to know that Aamir and Kiran Rao are on their way, the beauty queen waited for them to reach the party. When the couple reached the party, Ash went forward and bonded with the actor like never before. They spoke warmly and discussed about Kiran’s upcoming movie Dhobi Ghat. After spending some time together, Aamir had to leave early. Soon after his exit, Ash also left the party.

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None can argue about the fact that blockbuster ‘Dabangg’ was the star at the Big Star Entertainment Awards held in Mumbai on Tuesday night as it went on to bag five major awards at the ceremony that was organized by Reliance Broadcast Network in partnership with Star Plus. The awards will be aired on Dec. 31 from 10 pm onwards at Star Plus.
The movie proudly went on to collect the awards for the best film, best director, best entertaining song, best actor and best male playback singer. The organizers said, “These are a complete people’s choice awards. Right from nominations to the final winners, the voting process has been spread across radio and online and has had India decide its favorite entertainers of 2010 as well as the decade.”
The event was glamorized by stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Rani Mukherjee, Aishwarya Rai and many others. Aishwarya had all the eyes set on her as she lloked absolutely stunning draped in a sheer net blue sari accentuated with a purple velvet border. Golden strappy heels and a black clutch completed the ensemble, which dazzled onlookers when she went on stage to collect her award for the Actor of the Decade (Female).
Check out Aishwarya in her dazzling best……….

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Unfazed by the fate of her films at the box office, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan counts her blessings as she reaps the fruits of years of hard work.

This year, except “Endhiran”, “Guzaarish”, “Raavan” and “Action Replayy” haven’t done too well at the BO. How much does that bother you?
Not at all. I got a great review for each of the films that I worked in, whether it was “Endhiran”, “Raavan”, “Action Replayy” or “Guzaarish”, so for me, it’s been a terrific year. Everything that I set out to accomplish when I took on these movies, as an actor, and in terms of the response I was looking for, I have been able to. Because, as an actor with so many years of experience now, you know when you take on a subject what potential the character per se holds. No one can ever preordain the destiny of a film and I say destiny because it’s literally that. After so many years, you cannot necessarily say that a great film is a superhit or it’s the other way around. I’m happy that the response from critics and audience has been so overwhelming for each of the characters essayed, no matter how different they were from each other.

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While on co-star Akshay Kumar’s competitive cooking game show MasterChef,

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan talked about her love of cooking and her favourite savoury cold Polish soup.

“Remember, you are alone in the kitchen, and no one can see you!” Julia Child said on her ’1960s TV show after a potato pancake fell on the floor, and she quickly put it back in the pan. Back home, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan reminded us of the cook when she donned a retro look and the chef’s hat, surprising participants on MasterChef by bringing a Polish Chlodnik soup, prepared by her, for the show.

With her can-do attitude, she challenged the contestants to taste the soup and guess its ingredients. While protesting that her reputation for healthy food is old hat the actress confessed her love for food and being a total foodie with a sweet tooth, revealing that she is plain lucky not to put on weight irrespective of how much she eats.

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Beauty queen Aishwarya Rai is compelled to endorse the films in which she acted namely Action Replayy and Guzaarish, through television shows. Aishwarya Rai, however, has her own reservations as regards the promotion of her films. She is reluctant to appear on television shows fearing her popularity would be affected. But, she did appear in a realty show hosted by Akshay Kumar, her co-star in the film Action Replayy.

Though the promotion of the films through the TV shows is mentioned as mandatory, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the director of Guzaarish, seems to have made an exception in the case of Aishwarya Rai. So he put aside the idea of pressurizing her to participate in the promotional event that took place in Dubai recently in which Hritik Roshan participated.

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Close to two decades of constant media attention, yet she remains a glittering icon, more symbol than real, defined almost entirely by how she looks.

Aishwarya Rai has an ‘adjective’ problem. She is reportedly the highest paid actress in Indian cinema with her pick of the best roles, banners and directors. Each of her movies in 2010 — Raavan, Robot, the recently released Action Replayy, and soon to premiere Guzaarish — is a five-star production that most actresses can only dream about. This is the face that has launched a thousand magazine articles, and yet not one word in them reveals the woman behind that immaculate visage. Nearly two decades of constant media attention later, she remains a glittering icon, more symbolic than real, defined entirely by how she looks. “I don’t know of anyone who is crazy about Aishwarya,” says filmmaker and critic Paromita Vohra. “[Hers] is a sort of empirical or quantitative success, by virtue of ticking off all the correct surface qualities.” And that perfect ‘surface’ is all that everyone talks about.

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Director Vipul Shah is on cloud nine these days. Even after his film starring Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ‘Action Replayy’, getting jolted at the Indian box office collections, the ace director does have a reason to smile.
The reports doing the rounds are that ‘Action Replayy’, has been given a place in the coveted library of the Academy of Motion Pictures. The director is busy making arrangements to have a copy of the movie sent to the Margaret Herrick Library.
If reports are anything to go by then this film will be kept in the permanent script collection of the library, and the students will be made to learn some tricks of the trade from this retro inspired flick. Director Vipul Shah is well known to make films which strike an instant chord with the International audiences. Even his film ‘Namaste London’ starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif had been given a similar invitation to be given a place in the well recognized library.

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Her Diwali release, Action Replayy, may not have left viewers impressed, but Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is unaffected. “Thanks to Vipul (producer-director Vipul Shah) I thoroughly enjoyed playing Mala. She’s in-your-face, chirpy and vibrant. I’ve never played such a character before. I was so

kicked about reliving an era in which my parents-in-law started working together. I’m really satisfied with the outcome,” she says.

Unique character
To portray authentically the 1970s, the period in which the movie is set, Akshay Kumar admitted that he had modelled his looks on a character played by late actor Sunil Dutt. Did Ash, too, inject into her character certain traits based on a female actor in the 1970s? “No, I didn’t do that because Mala is unique. She is a girl of the 1970s but clearly unlike any actor of the time,” says Bachchan, admitting she enjoyed her recent small screen debut with a performance on Zee TV’s Dhinchak Diwali to promote her latest film.

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Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s turning a year older today and on the cards is a dinner party with close friends and family. How hubby Abhishek’s making it all the more special for her, the actor’s not telling, but is looking forward to the surprise. By her own admission, she’s in a “very happy phase of life” and “thankful to God for whatever He’s given”.

“I feel blessed to be surrounded with so much love and affection from everyone around,” she says. So, how special are birthdays for her? “It’s a special day for me, because it means so much for those around me, who try their best to make it special for me. It makes me want to thank God for all the blessings even more,” says Aishwarya.