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International Indian Film Academy or as it s better known as IIFA is out with its nominations list and the people who are on the list is really excited. Katrina Kaif and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are competing against each other in the Best Actress category as Katrina got nominated for Rajneeti and Aishwarya for Guzaarish. Vidya Balan has also been nominated for her out of beat role in Ishqiya. Other actress who will be competing for best actress award at IIFA and Band Baja Baarat girl Anushka Sharma and Kareena Kapoor.

IIFA is a very prestigious award and to get a nomination in this is in itself a great feat. The films that have got the highest nominations so far is Once Upon a Time In Mumbai which has got 12 nominations closely followed by Dabangg which has got 11 nominations.

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After Kareena replaced Aishwarya in Sanjay Leela Bhansali`s revived ambitious project ‘Bajirao Mastani’, it is reported that Ash bagged a role good enough to make Bebo go green with envy.

Buzz has it that, Ash has been offered a role opposite Kareena’s beau Saif in Vishal Bhardwaj’s next. Sources confirm that filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj approached the green-eyes beauty with an idea to cast her as the female lead for his upcoming film. It is also heard that Vishal has been chasing Ash for 14 years now, but the two never worked together owing to date constraints or because the project was not of Ash’s interest.

However, looking at Vishal line of work it is widely speculated that if Ash agrees to the film, it will be sheer joy to watch an interesting new pair on screen.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has decided to stay at home for two months and help her bhabhi (brother Aditya’s wife) Srima with her baby boy, who was born on November 26.

She will avoid most public appearances in the next couple of months, as she wants to spend as much time as possible at home. She will only attend those she had previously committed to.

Says a source, “Post-Guzaarish, she missed the promotions so she could be with her sister-in-law.

Everyone is very excited about the baby, Ash more so. She had warned all her producers, organisers and media manager about the situation.” She will play the doting bua to the hilt in real life now.

After a while Says a source close to Rai-Bachchan, “She deliberately finished all her film assignments by October. And she has not signed any film after Guzaarish.

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Director Vishal Bhardwaj seems to be too eager to sign Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan for his next film. The director recently met with Ash to show her the fresh script of his next project.

When he had approached Ash with the script last time, the actress suggested some changes in it. Bhardwaj, known for cult films like Omkara, seems to have realised that it is easier to rope in an A-lister actress than that of an actor of the same stature for his film. So the director, whose most films have strong female characters, did not mind doing some cosmetic changes in his script.

According to a source, Vishal faced a lot of trouble while working with the stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan right from the times of his narration of the film to having changes in the script. According to sources, Vishal had also met Saif and Shah Rukh to sign them for his films, but to no avail.

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Raavan starring Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan could not make it possible to float over the waves of box office but the leading lady of the movie, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is still in demand. She is still the ultimate choice. There is cluster of directors who aspires to have Ash in their movies. Vishal Bhardwaj is one such distinguished self who is craving to do film with Aishwarya Rai for long and has attempted at times but in vain. He intended to take her in his debutant directorial venture, ‘Timbucktoo’ but could not execute the plans.

Vishal Bhardwaj goes fortunate this time to employ Ash in his new project which is scheduled to be released in 2011. It is not that Aishwarya Rai’s refusals were deliberate; it was her dates’ dairy that could not help her as she was bound with other projects. That is why she even refused to do “Saat Khoon Maaf”

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Contrary to popular reports Bollywood’s favourite star couple Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan aren’t looking forward to start a family next year. Even though Aishwarya and Abhishek remain tightlipped on their personal life, buzz has it that Ash is in no mood to bid adieu to filmdom as the stunning beauty is quite occupied with her acting assignments.

Incidentally, Aishwarya is one such rare Bollywood actresses whose successful Box Office chase continues even after marriage! Indeed, Aishwarya is one of the most successful actress whose upcoming projects include ‘Raavan’, ‘Action Replay’, ‘Robot’, ‘Guzaarish’ and ‘Crooked’ to name a few. Apart from it, Aishwarya also has a couple of projects waiting for her approval.

Marriage seems to have proved lucky for Aishwarya as Bollywood filmmakers like Ashutosh Gowariker, Rohan Sippy, Rituparno Ghosh and Vishal Bhardwaj are eager to work with the green-eyed beauty.

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After Aishwarya’s giggles at various events and film sets became talk of the town, it’s Vidya Balan who is in news for the same reason these days.

Vidya has reportedly been conferred by a new nickname ‘Giggles’. While shooting for for Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Ishqiya’, Vidya apparently laughed so much on the sets that her co-star Arshad Warsi started calling her ‘Giggles’.

Confirming the news, Arshad said, “There’s a story behind this. Vidya laughs a lot and can’t control herself. She just goes on laughing like crazy. She doesn’t even need someone to crack a joke… she laughs JLT (just like that). Sometimes she used to crack up in the middle of a shot and then Naseeruddin and I had to wait till she finished… Man, that’s some talent she has! So we call her Giggles.”

No matter how much someone giggles, beating Ash in that category is quite impossible!

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Mumbai: It must be scary for filmmakers to approach a role to Aishwarya Rai as she can turn down the likes of Will Smith. May be the actress is finding our desi directors talented than the foreigners. The same kind a thing Ash did, as she agrees to do a film for the Omkara filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj.

More interestingly Ash didn’t read the full script. Well what’s wrong with Will Ash? When you are going to give him a nod? Will is still trying to wow her and rope in for some film, but Ash is not yet obsessed by his wows.

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It was Vishal Bhardwaj who took out the best from Tabu in ‘Maqbool’ and Kareena Kapoor in ‘Omkara’. Vishal took up direction in 2002 with the children’s film ‘Makdee’ and since then he had always wanted to work with Aishwarya Rai. He was the music composer on a project with her that got shelved.

Finally, Vishal and Ash have teamed up together for a film titled as ‘Timbuctoo’ that Vishal had approached Aishwarya in the past. But that film never materialized. Talking about the project with Vishal, Aishwarya said “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 would star in his film whenever he turned director”.