By Jilawatan

ONCE THEY had good innings in Bollywood. They were young. They were never actresses but stars. But age caught up with them.

Refusing to give up on Bollywood, although it has given up on them, they try gimmicks to stick on.

Instead of growing up (mentally) and moving on, they simply will remain here by hook or crook. They refuse to hang their boots and welcome the next phase whatever it may be.

With their fewer or non-existent films, they resort to gimmicks to be in limelight. The current trend is to hit the networking circuit hard and be on page three.

This does make news if not careers. Socialising has its own fringe benefits.

Their movies fail big time. Now with hardly anything on their platter, is it anything surprising to find them becoming socialites and on the networking sites.

By Jilawatan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who fell ill on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish in Mumbai, has resumed shooting for the film. The actress, who was advised a week’s bed-rest after she caught a chest infection, took only a three-day break from the shoot since she did not want to disrupt the film’s schedule. Already, she had to postpone the first day of her shoot for Bhansali to accommodate an additional day in Kerala for Raavan. What’s more, though she has finished most of her portions for the Mani Ratnam film, she is expected to join him for two to three days’ work during the 40-day long schedule at Malshej Ghat near Nashik. Just one of the days translated into a no-shoot day for the film’s unit since the other two days saw Hrithik Roshan and other actors going ahead with their portions. Incidentally, Aishwarya was diagnosed with the infection on Sunday, which was a weekly off for the unit and hence, the unit saved on what would otherwise have been one more day’s delay.

By Jilawatan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might be all of 35 and is losing out on endorsement deals and positions to the likes of Kareena Kapoor and plastic actress gone lucky, Katrina Kaif, but she still is going strong in more ways that one.

Not just Ash, her contemporaries like Sushmita Sen, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Kajol too have been replaced by the likes of Kat, Bebo, Deepika Padukone, even Sonam Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza.

But Ash is doing better than her contemporaries. She may not be the face of Coca-Cola and Nakshatra diamond jewellery in India, but she still has successful and long-standing international endorsements.

She has completed nearly a decade of endorsing Swiss luxury watch brand Longines, international soap Lux and is the brand ambassador of global haircare brand L’Oreal since 2003. And unlike Shilpa Shetty and Preity Zinta who have moved on to businesses like IPL with rich boyfriends.

By Jilawatan

Following her trip to Tinsel Town and the release of ‘Pink Panther 2′, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan is back in Bollywood with a heavy duty call sheet in hand. The actress, who was recently felicitated with the prestigious Padma Shri award in Delhi, is set to resume shooting in Mumbai for Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replay’.

Meanwhile, she has her hands full with Mani Ratnam’s much awaited ‘Raavan’, opposite her hubby Abhishek. The movie is scheduled to be released in 2010, and is being shot simultaneously in Tamil under the title of ‘Ashokavanam’. Though the cast in the Tamil version differ slightly, the main characters are being essayed by the likes of Vikram, Govinda,Prithviraj Sukumaran, Prabhu Ganesan and Manisha Koirala. It’s being claimed that Raavan/ Ashokavanam is a modern day version of the Ramayana, with Ash as Sita.

By Jilawatan

Sanjay leela Bansali’s next Mega-Budget Film starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Hrithik Roshan in lead role, is titled as GUZARISH.After creating history by becoming the first Indian to bag the Oscar Award for best sound mixing for Slumdog Millionaire, Resul Pookutty is now looking forward to put his audio wizardry in Sanjay Bhansali’s next film featuring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan which is scheduled to start later this year.

Sanjay recalls his first association with Resul and says, “My assistant Vikram Motwane had suggested Resul’s name. For Devdas, Resul recorded the sounds of a hurling train for the climax, I hadn’t met Resul then. For Black, I worked with him for the first time on a complete film. I realised how meticulously he designed the sound and by sound, I also mean the way Resul uses silences on soundtrack.”

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It seems unusual that one of the most romantic off screen movie stories – that of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – has not been seen in a straightforward romantic situation on-screen since their marriage.

Soon, we’ll be seeing them together in a tale of forbidden love in Raavan. But the pair are quite happy with this situation. “It’s wonderful because even we as actors, over the years, have been gravitating towards experiences as characters in a lot of movies,” says Aishwarya.

As well as Raavan, Aishwarya has also been working hard on Endhiran with Southern legend Rajnikanth and she has talked about how excited she feels to have the opportunity to work with him.

“We’ve all grown up watching Rajinikanth films and all those moves – it’s been exciting, everyone around me was excited about me working with him,” she explains.

After Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa Akbar, the couple who starred in two dramatically different films is set to grace the screen again with none other than perfectionist Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Bollyspice earlier reported rumours of Hrithik Roshan signing Bhansali’s next with the possibility of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the cast as well. Recently, Hrithik Roshan confirmed this to Mumbai Mirror and expressed his enthusiasm about the film.

“Sanjay Bhansali’s film is the only film that I’ve accepted after Kites. I just jumped at it. We’re both very passionate film persons.Though there’s one other script that I’m looking at, nothing touched my soul except Bhansali’s script,” Hrithik explained.

He also went on to reveal that Aishwarya will also be part of the cast and adds that the duo’s chemistry will depend on what the script allows them to do.

The kid who once found it difficult to speak because of stammering is today the most good looking Indian film hero.

Today Hrithik Roshan has come a long way from the time when he was a 14 year old kid being treated for speech disability and one who fought against his handicap and defeated it fully.

Recently he met the same doctor Ramesh Ojha who helped him overcome his difficulty to speak at the Nanavati Hospital.

The Bollywood star had gone there to inaugurate the audio and speech therapy wing.

He also donated Rs.2 million for the treatment of the special children.

After the inauguration function, Hrithik talked to the media persons.

He said that although a child with a disability may be called as a special one, it is done only to make the kid less troubled about his shortcoming and only the child who goes through the physical or psychological disability knows the trauma that he has to go through.