Aishwarya Rai rooted for husband Abhishek Bachchan dressed in a golden sari and green velvet blouse at Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey premiere in Mumbai on Thursday, December 2.

The sheer sari had floral gold and red border; she paired it with a green long sleeve embellished blouse.

Aishwarya Rai poses with Abhishek Bachchan and Ashutosh Gowarikar.

Aishwarya, 37, accessorized with a golden clutch and ethnic jewelry – gold jhumkas and bangles.

Her reddish brown hair was styled in loose waves with bangs framing her face.

Light pink lipstick, bronze eye shadow and sindoor on forehead rounded her demure looks.

Abhishek Bachchan with mom Jaya Bachchan.
Abhishek looked dapper in black sherwani and white bottom, the suggested dress code for males invites for the evening. Others similarly attired including Sikander Kher and Ashutosh Gowarikar.

Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.
Senior Bachchans and Aishwarya parents also turned out in support of Abhishek, with Amitabh Bachchan dressed in black sherwani and white bottom.

Apart from the cast and crew of the film, other attendees included Anupam and Kiron Kher, Hrithik Roshan, Genelia D’Souza, Minissha Lamba, Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja, Sidhartha Mallya, Vidya Malvade, Bhagyashree, Sonali Bendre and Goldie Behl.

Hrithik Roshan, the super hero of bollywood who plays the character of a paraplegic in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming flick ‘Guzaarish’ opposite gorgeous beauty Aishwarya Rai, has landed newcomer Monikangana Dutta in trouble due to his past escapades with Mexican beauty Barabara Mori.

So much so that Hrithik Roshan’s wife Suzanne Khan keeps visiting the sets of Sanjay Bhansali’s film to prevent any possible closeness developing between her husband and hot bong model Monikangana Dutta.

Sources close to director Sanjay Leela Bhansali say that Monikangana was feeling so uncomfortable with the presence of Suzanne Roshan that she requested Bhansali to excuse her from enacting the sensuous sequence with Hrithik. However, Sanjay Leela Bhansali refused to oblige her as the scene was an intrinsic part of the story.

Sources from the set of ‘Guzaarish’ say that Hrithik Roshan and Monikangana Dutta were required to give a sensuous hot sequence as they are playing husband and wife in the film. To get a real feel to the whole sequence, Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted Hrithik Roshan and Monikangana to spend some quality time together before giving the final shots in Goa.

It is this quality time therapy of Bhansali for the realism in scene that created problem and Hrithik’s wife Suzanne Roshan became extra vigilant in guarding her husband. The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Suzanne was in no mood to take the risk again by allowing Hrithik Roshan unrestricted freedom about his heroines.

It may be recalled that Monikangana Dutta is a hot and happening model in Bengal, who caught the eyes of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and he cast her opposite Hrithik in his new flick ‘Guzaarish’. Though the film has Aishwarya Rai Bachchan too, but she plays the character of a nurse to paraplegic Hrithik Roshan.

However, in the later part of the flick Hrithik Roshan falls in love with his nurse played by Aishwarya Rai. Before Bhansali’s flick, Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan had created magic in Yashraj Films’ ‘Dhoom’ and Ashutosh Gowarikar’s ‘Jodha Akbar’. Their on screen chemistry was terrific in the both the flicks but latter could not do much at the box office.

But, Hrithik Roshan’s wife Suzanne has problem with Monikangana and not Aishwarya Rai, as only the former have a sensuous sequence with Hrithik. The buzz doing he rounds in the industry is that Suzanne has become more suspicious due to Hrithik Roshan’s past closeness with Barbara Mori during the making of his earlier flick ‘Kites’.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, one of the few hot married actresses of bollywood and daughter-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan, who plays lead opposite Hrithik Roshan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming flick ‘Guzaarish’, has taken leave from the shooting for the premiere of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek, Vidya starrer ‘Paa’.

Sources close to Bachchan family say that Amitabh was finding it difficult to cope with the invitations and other formalities of upcoming premiere of ‘Paa’, as his better half Jaya Bachchan was in Delhi attending Parliament. Even Abhishek Bachchan was not available to help him in the task (shooting in Goa for Ashutosh Gowarikar), and Big B, at this age, was finding the going very tough for himself.

It was at this juncture that Aishwarya Rai, who has been busily shooting with Hrithik Roshan for ‘Guzaarish’, decided to take leave to help her father- in- law in his task.

However, Aishwarya Rai did not ask directly for the leave from director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, as she knew well that he was a very strict taskmaster in the matters of shooting schedules etc. In fact, she just made Bhansali hear to her expressions of helplessness in helping her Pa, Big B.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali got the cue and decided to re- schedule the shooting after consultation with Hrithik Roshan, who was expected to shoot with Aishwarya on those days. Now, Aishwarya will not only attend the premiere of ‘Paa’ with Big B, but also can oversee the final arrangements on the day, before that all important day.

In fact, ‘Paa’ is very important flick not only for Big B and Abhishek Bachchan but also for Aishwarya Rai, who has taken upon herself to market the flick before its release. The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that all major marketing decision about ‘Paa’ has been taken by the gorgeous bahu of Big B herself.

In fact, ‘Paa’ is going to be an important vehicle through which Big B and Aishwarya Rai want to revive their home banner ABCL. It is to this end that Aishwarya Rai has been taking special interest in this Balki- directed flick.

‘Paa’ is a film about father-son relationship, wherein Amitabh Bachchan enacts the character of a 13-year-old boy for the first time in his illustrious acting career. Another curious factor for the audiences will be Abhishek Bachchan playing the part of Big B’s father in the flick, while Vidya Balan essaying the part of his mother.

Rajnikant’s mega budget next Endhiran starring him along side Aishwarya Rai seems to have garnered a lot of curiosity as the makers are keeping the production a close guarded secret. But the audience interest about it seems to be multiplying day by day as inside details are being leaked out. We managed to find out one such inside info about Aishwarya Rai’s character in the film.

Our sources reveal, “After having learnt sword fights for her English movie The Last Legion, Aishwarya has been training herself in Karate for Endhiran. A noted stunt master Ramesh who has been running a Japan Shito-Ryu karate school in the South for over 30 years, which is affiliated to the World Karate Federation is training the actress for the movie. Ramesh is teaching Aishwarya the basics of Karate for now. In the movie Aishwarya Rai and the other girls in the film will be learning Karate from her hero. Rajnikant is already trained in Karate so he will not have to train himself. Some interesting scenes were shot recently in the VIT University in Chennai.”

Aishwarya Rai has always been a quick learner. Even during the making of the The Last Legion Aishwary Rai had trained herself in the sword fight. She took her skills forward in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar. Her trainers have always been enamoured by her quick learning skills. Apparently Ramesh was also charmed that the actress was able to repeat the karate movements easily.

Ramesh has also acted in Mani Rathnam’s Iruvar (1997) which was Aishwarya Rai’s first ever film. He has also acted in over 400 movies made in South India since 1986 with almost all the leading heroes of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages. -

Rajnikant’s mega budget next Endhiran starring him along side Aishwarya Rai seems to have garnered a lot of curiosity as the makers are keeping the production a close guarded secret. But the audience interest about it seems to be multiplying day by day as inside details are being leaked out. We managed to find out one such inside info about Aishwarya Rai’s character in the film.

Our sources reveal, “After having learnt sword fights for her English movie The Last Legion, Aishwarya has been training herself in Karate for Endhiran. A noted stunt master Ramesh who has been running a Japan Shito-Ryu karate school in the South for over 30 years, which is affiliated to the World Karate Federation is training the actress for the movie. Ramesh is teaching Aishwarya the basics of Karate for now. In the movie Aishwarya Rai and the other girls in the film will be learning Karate from her hero. Rajnikant is already trained in Karate so he will not have to train himself. Some interesting scenes were shot recently in the VIT University in Chennai.”

Aishwarya Rai has always been a quick learner. Even during the making of the The Last Legion Aishwary Rai had trained herself in the sword fight. She took her skills forward in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar. Her trainers have always been enamoured by her quick learning skills. Apparently Ramesh was also charmed that the actress was able to repeat the karate movements easily.

Ramesh has also acted in Mani Rathnam’s Iruvar (1997) which was Aishwarya Rai’s first ever film. He has also acted in over 400 movies made in South India since 1986 with almost all the leading heroes of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages.

Jaya Bachchan, the veteran bollywood actress and mother-in-law of gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, has created a storm by supporting Ashutosh Gowarikar in questioning Priyanka Chopra’s best actress award while ignoring the claims of her daughter-in-law at IIFA in Macau.

Jaya Bachchan feels that Aishwarya Rai’s character of Jodha Bai in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s directorial venture ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ was more deserving of the best actress award than Priyanka Chopra’s role in Madhur Bhandarkar’s flick ‘Fashion’. Though the veteran actress claimed in the same vein that she was yet to see Priyanka Chopra’s film ‘Fashion’ , but it did not make her wait before passing a judgment on Priyanka’s histrionics prowess vis-à-vis Aishwarya Rai.

Sources say that Jaya Bachchan’s displeasure was more pronounced as all other principal actors of ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, including Hrithik Roshan, had won awards in their respective categories. Only Aishwarya Rai and cinematographer Kiran Deohans could not manage to get any awards at the function and this despite the fact that Big B was the brand ambassador of the IIFA function.

It may be recalled that Ashutosh Gowarikar had raised objection at IIFA stage in Macau to Priyanka Chopra getting the best actress award for ‘Fashion’, despite of the fact that Aishwarya, too, had been nominated for the same award category for her role in ‘Jodhaa Akbar’.

This had shocked Priyanka Chopra, who was also present at the award ceremony. The actress was furious with Ashutosh for questioning her acting capability but decided to maintain a dignified silence as she plays the female lead in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s upcoming flick ‘What is Your Rashee?’

However, this did not prevent Madhur Bhandarkar, who had directed Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Fashion’, from slamming Ashutosh Gowarikar for his rude comments and spoiling the golden moment of her actress.

The buzz is that now when Jaya Bachchan has come openly in support of Aishwarya Rai, the whole controversy is bound to take a worse turn for IIFA awards. Sources say that already Shah Rukh Khan and other biggies of the industry avoid this award function, terming it to be a Bachchan family show.

After recent controversy involving Jaya Bachchan, Aishwarya and Priyanka Chopra, it is more likely to be perceived as Big B & family affair, where others do not stand a chance to win any award. This will certainly induce other actors to keep away from this award function, leading to further lowering of credibility.