By Jilawatan

For a few months, till Vipul Shah announced November 5 as D-Day, the grapevine had been buzzing about Action Replayy lining up for an Eid opening. And setting up a moonstruck clash between Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Salman Khan, whose Dabangg had also zeroed in on September10.

However, the producer-director denies this, “Ash versus Salman? Eid was never an option. We had earlier locked on July 23 but the post-production is taking longer than expected because the film has a lot of special effects. So another Akshay Kumar starrer, Khatta Meetha, opened last Friday,” says Shah. “Diwali is a good time for our fun film.”

By Jilawatan

Finally, after many cancellations and much shifting in schedule dates, the retro song featuring Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar for Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s movie Action Replayy is going to be shot in Manali.

Vipul Shah has been keen to shoot this song since the end of winters but the shoot has been getting postponed for one reason or another. First, it snowed in Manali when the unit was set to fly there. Then, Ash and Akshay got busy with other projects. Ash even suggested shooting the song in London in May, but Vipul did not find it feasible.

Now, all things have come together just right for the song to be canned at last. Aishwarya has a few free dates and Akshay too has a few days to spare before he gets busy with the promotions of Khatta Meetha.