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Gossip mills are working overtime when it comes to Abhi-Ash these days. Our wag is now claiming that Aishwarya Rai has now clearly told Abhi to try to do more films where they both can star opposite each other so that they can spend more time together. It was just that Aishwarya Rai did not have the required dates to be in the film Crooked and then in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Se due to her over busy diary and hence a lot of young actresses got an opportunity to be with the young actor. Guess it is time that Ash does allow a lot of these young actors to try and get a chance to be in the movies and act opposite her hubby. Or is it the case of Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai!

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Recently Aishwarya has been really busy shooting for her forth coming films that she had to take a decision on the role in the film called ‘Crooked’ by producer Ritesh Sidhwani.This film has Abhishek Bachchan in the lead role with Sarah Jane Dias as his leading lady. The other actresses in the film are Shahana Goswami of the Farhan Akhtar Starrer film ‘Rock On’, Gul Panang. The role that Ash was supposed to play was poised opposite to Abhishek’s character.
In the film she was supposed to catch the gang of thieves and Abhishek was on top of the gang. Thus, according to reports, the role of coming bang opposite to Abhishek did not go well with Ash’s idea of acting in the same film as her husband, so she was not hesitant to give up the role which was lapped up by the Pakistani beauty Sonya Jehan.
Another version of the story goes that since the shooting of this film started on the 14th of January, Aishwarya was very busy with her other commitments and so she had to let go the gutsy role from her kitty. Some grapevine reports also suggest that the director and producer have confirmed the replacement saying that Sonya was brought in as she also has fair skin, light eyes and is very pretty, which fitted the character that was required for the film.

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and the winner is or rather are Mani Ratnam and Delhi Belly director Abhinay Deo. The concern of these directors was to sign the duo of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan first in their movies.Mani Ratnam has already bounced up with the pair for his profect and shooting have been in the process with “Ravana” while Abinay has finalised January 4 as the D-day to start his film “Crooked” with the couple.

Anecdote about the film “Crooked” are that it is inspired from a Hollywood flick “The Bourne Identity”. The film will have a 40-day non-stop schedule in the beginning. The film is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment. It also stars Jimmy Shergill, Boman Irani and Gul Panag. It will be shot in Thailand, Greece, Turkey and UK.

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In Action Replay, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will look like an old woman. No, it’s not because she forgot to put on her L’Oreal foundation cream, it’s an essential part of the plot. Such is the perfection of Aish’s skin, it took six hours to get the make-up right. “Ash did her old age make up with Paul, a Hollywood make-up artist,” says director Vipul Shah. “When we did it the first time, it didn’t work out well.

When you are doing age make-up, you can’t correct it so it had to be removed fully and done again.” The movie is a love story, which also stars Akshay Kumar, and which travels backwards in time.

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A lot of people in the industry have been wondering why Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been working so hard lately even as she balances her time between her two sets of parents at Jalsa (the Bachchans) and La Mer (the Rais).

Fact is that Aishwarya is in a hurry to finish up all her pending assignments so that she can keep a part of the year 2010 free for family affairs, and that includes motherhood.

A source close to the couple said, “The two of them are fed up of relatives, strangers and relative strangers asking them when the stork is visiting. Secretly, they feel pressurised. It’s as if their parenthood is a public issue. Even when they are at airports waiting to board flights, over-exuberant ladies rush to them with an inquisitive look on their eager faces. Even before these fans open their mouth, Abhishek knows exactly what the question is, and he gets visibly annoyed. Aishwarya handles such over-inquisitive attention far more graciously.”

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BOLYWOD ’S favorite couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may have just returned from a grueling shooting schedule for Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavana’ (working title) but that hasn’t deterred them from signing yet another film together. Abhi-Ash would be starring in Excel Entertainment’s future project to be directed by Abhinay Deo (of ‘Delhi Belly’ fame). When will the film go on floors and where it would be filmed? “The film goes on floors on June 15 and we wrap up by October 8. We would be shooting in Greece, Istanbul, London and Thailand,” states Ritesh. But the film has met with a lot of speculation ever since that the film has been titled ‘Crooked.’ To get the facts straight, we got in touch with Ritesh Sidhwani of Excel. ‘Crooked’ is just the working title. We are still contemplating whether to use it or go in with a Hindi title.” The last time Ritesh had spoken to us, he had said that besides Abhi-Ash the film would also star four other actors. So have they signed anyone as yet, “Yes, besides Abhishek and Aishwarya, the film will also star Boman Irani and Jimmy Sheirgill. We are yet to finalize a couple of other actors and would be making an announcement soon,” signs off Ritesh. The film is a thriller and for a change Abhishek and Aishwarya are not paired opposite each other in this film