By Jilawatan

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.

By Jilawatan

Crooked, a Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani production is due to start filming from January 14 next year. The film was going to see Bollywood couple, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles, but the latest news is that Aishwarya has opted out as her dates coincide with another project – Vipul Shah’s Action Replay.

Action Replay will see Aishwarya sharing the big screen with action man, Akshay Kumar. Since she’s given this film priority over Crooked, it leaves the producers and directors without a leading lady. Sources reveal that Sarah Jane, former Miss India (2007) has been casted in the film which is apparently inspired by the Matt Damon-starrer, Bourne films.

When asked about her role in the film, Jane refrained from commenting and just said, “Yes, I did meet the filmmakers. But I can’t say anything more than that, because I don’t know. It’s up to them to confirm the news first and make the official announcement.”

By Jilawatan

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.