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Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has finally given the nod to veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal.

The film to be shotnext year would be an out-and-out female-oriented subject to be shot atone stretch.

Says Aishwarya, “I’ve been working so hardthis year thatI haven’t had achance to look at scripts. Butyes, the one that Shyam Benegal hasgiven meisveryvery special. We’ve beenmeaning to work with one another for years.”

Aishwarya wasearlieroffered Benegal’s Chamki,his screenadaptation of Georges Bizet’s classic French operaCarmen.
Laughs Aishwarya, “I don’t know how many times that has come to me. He needed to catch the moodduring winter in Rajasthan. And somehow I never had that window inmy schedule.”
The new Aishwarya-Benegal project takes the actor intoa different time zone.

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We already showed you the first poster for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s and Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movie Action Replayy and now more posters are out! Akshay took to Twitter to share the new pics and asked fans to comment, so take a look at them and share your thoughts!

Aishwarya and Akshay have had lots of fun on the set of their new movie Action Replayy. From disco dancers to fun loving hippies, the cute Jodi has tried on several different looks for Vipul Shah’s new flick.
Action Replayy is based on a 1994 Gujarati play and tells the story of a man who travels back in time to the 70s when he was young and handsome. Kishen and Mala are constantly fighting but they manage to rekindle their love on their 33rd wedding anniversary.

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Bollywood star Akshay Kumar says that Action Replayy is his first romantic comedy with Aishwarya Rai and he was blushing through the making of the retro cool movie.

“It is my fifth film with director Vipul Shah and definitely another one to remember. Ash and I had a brief romantic interlude in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Khakee, but Action Replayy is our first romantic comedy together. Believe me, I was blushing through the making,” Akshay said in a
statement.

“There’s a lot I wish to tell my audience about. But Vipul wants me to keep things under wraps for the moment.”

Akshay says he was thrilled to be a part of “Action Replayy” that is set in the 1970s when his father-in-law Rajesh Khanna was hailed as the first superstar.

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Looks like someone is having a lot of fun on the set of Action Replay! From disco dancers to fun loving hippies, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her Action Replay co-star Akshay Kumar have tried on several different looks for Vipul Shah’s new flick and now new pics of the acting duo rehearsing on the set have leaked!

The movie is about a man who travels back in time to the 70s when he was young and handsome. Both Ash and Akshay have worked with some of Hollywood’s best makeup artists to get into character and Ash even set a record in dress changes! The actress changed outfits over one hundred times while shooting a number the movie: “In one song, Aishwarya Rai changes costumes 125 times. Since this is necessary for the song, she did it. I think this is a record in Indian films,” Vipul Shah told reporters.

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It’s romance in rewind mode. It’s a trip back to the glorious 1970s of the flower power generation, of the bell bottom trousers, gaudy clothes, long hair and, of course, the Lambretta scooter.

Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar take the joyride on the vintage two-wheeler in director Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s film Action Replayy.

The movie is about two bickering senior citizens who rediscover love on their 33rd wedding anniversary. Then on, the romantic tale of the two old lovers is told in action replay, spooling back to the 1970s and spanning decades.

This is Ash and Akshay’s second film together. They had first paired briefly in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Khakee. Action Replayy is the duo’s first full-on romantic film. The film’s shoot is nearly complete. Just a song and some patch-up work needs to be shot.

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Aishwarya Rai, the gorgeous Bachchan bahu who plays the lead in Vipul Shah’s upcoming flick ‘Action Replay’ opposite Khiladi Akshay Kumar, is all set to tickle your funny bone in July with her first ever comic role in this venture.

Though, Aishwarya Rai’s another flick ‘Raavan’ directed by Mani Rathnam will be releasing on June 18, Vipul Shah feels that it would not affect the box office prospects of his ‘Action Replay’. The confidence of the veteran director comes from the fact that ‘Action Replay’ was as different from Mani Rathnam’s ‘Raavan’ as chalk and cheese, and hence, they would have different segments of patrons for them.

In fact, ‘Action Replay’ is out and out comedy, wherein Ash will be showcasing her comic talent for the first time, while ‘Raavan’ is based on the mythological story of Ramayan with modern interpretation to suit the contemporary times. Trade sources say that despite of all differences between the two movies, Vipul Shah is likely to consult director Mani Rathnam before deciding upon the final release date of his flick.

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Akshay Kumar, the action guru of bollywood who plays lead in Vipul Shah’s upcoming flick ‘Action Replay’ opposite Aishwarya Rai, will be gyrating to a mushy romantic number in the film which will have steps taken directly from John Travolta’s super duper hit ‘Saturday Night Fever’.

Akshay Kumar is a big fan of the Hollywood icon and watched the flick several times to imbibe the spirit and style of the number. Sources close to production house say that Akshay Kumar- Aishwarya Rai number has an exuberant energy and a fashion sense of that era which was so popular at that time. As the Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replay’ is about the nineteen seventies and moves backwards, the Travolta style fitted in theme of the film perfectly.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the stunningly beautiful bollywood hottie who plays lead in Vipul Shah’s upcoming flick Action Replay opposite Akshay Kumar, has been rejecting music composer Pritam’s song repeatedly, thereby delaying the project.

Sources close to Vipul Shah reveal that the Bachchan bahu has already rejected Pritam’s composition for three times and has again asked him to make something special to fit the bill. In fact, the song number is to be filmed on Aishwarya Rai at the time of her entry in the film, and so she and filmmaker Vipul Shah insist that it has to be something special and not any run of the mill stuff, churned out by the music director and lyricists.

Now, music director Pritam and two lyricists Irshad and Kamil(have already written songs for Saif Ali Khan’s home production ‘Love Aaj Kal’) are starting all over again from the scratch to render the number, which can satisfy Aishwarya and Vipul Shah.

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After getting fabulous performances out of Tabu in Maqbool, Kareena Kapoor in Omkara and hopefully, Priyanka Choopra in Kaminey, Vishal Bhardwaj is all set to team up with the one actress he has always wanted to work with.

Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan and Vishal Bhardwaj are finally getting together after many false starts. The project will go into production at the end of the year.

Says Aishwarya, “Vishal and I have wanted to work together ever since he was the music composer on a project that got shelved. We had promised one another that I’d start in his film whenever he turned director.

Right after his directorial debut in the children’s film Makdee Vishal had offered Aishwarya a film called Timbuctoo . That got shelved.