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.

By Jilawatan

Vipul Amrutlal Shah can at last heave a big sigh of relief. After being on tenterhooks for months because of a pending song for his time travel movie Action Replayy, the director has finally managed to winkle out some time from the film’s lead actors, Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar.

As we reported earlier, the movie’s shoot is complete but for a special retro song which Vipul hasn’t been able to shoot for reasons beyond his control. First, inclement weather in Manali, where the song was to be shot, played spoilsport. Later on, Ash and Akshay had no dates to spare for the song. Though Ash offered to shoot the song in London in May, the plan wasn’t feasible for Shah.

Now, after waiting for months, Vipul is reported to have got the required dates from both Ash and Akshay to shoot the song near Manali by the end of June.

By Jilawatan

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.

By Jilawatan

The summer sun has begun beating down relentlessly and the long shooting schedules have become a sweaty, tiring affair for actors and crewmembers.

However, while shooting for director Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s film Action Replayy with Akshay Kumar, the film’s leading actress Aishwarya Rai seemed unconcerned about the heat even though everyone on the sets sweated buckets. The director was obviously curious to know Ash’s secret of beating the heat, and find it out he did.

The secret was Ash’s mama Vrinda Rai’s homemade recipe – kokum juice. Yes, Ash’s mother would visit the movie’s sets with a pitcher of kokum juice for the actress. It worked wonders in fighting the heat.

“The only person who would be completely unaffected with the heat was Ash. That’s when we all realised about her kokum juice,” Shah is quoted as saying.

By Jilawatan

Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar were recently supposed to fly to Manali to shoot a romantic song for director Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s film Action Replayy. But to everyone’s shock it snowed in Manali in February, which none had expected. And since there was not a snowball’s chance in hell to shoot in such an inclement weather, Shah had to cancel the shoot.

Shah’s patience is surely being tested to the hilt. First, Ash’s extended shoot for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan delayed his film, and now that the principal shooting is over and only two songs need to be canned, weather is playing spoilsport.

The song to be shot is based on a 1970s melody by Pritam. It shows Ash and Akshay romancing in the winter of a hill station. Since the film’s story progresses backwards in time (hence the title ‘Action Replayy’) the song shows Ash and Akki as lovers in the 70s.

By Jilawatan

Rest assured that Aishwarya Rai isn’t going bald. It’s just that she would be seen donning a special wig designed by Hollywood make-up artist Paul Pattison for some portions of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s film Action Replayy.

Reason? Since the movie’s story progresses backwards in time, Shah wanted a unique look for the leading stars Aishwarya and Akshay Kumar for the sequences that are set in the 1970s.

After much discussion with the creative team and the leading pair, Shah roped in Paul Pattison since he didn’t want Ash and Akki to wear tacky wigs. Pattison has considerable experience working in a number of Hollywood films, including ‘Mission Impossible II’ and ‘Braveheart’.

In fact, we hear that Pattison is paying meticulous attention to the looks and hairdos of the extras and junior artists, too, on the sets at Nitin Desai studios in Karjat.