Monday, January 21, 2008
Ash Forever For Her Lovers Across The Globe
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan World
Refuting the reports about Aishwarya Rai's pregnancy, Abhishek Bachchan has made clear it amply clear that his wife is too busy to start a family.In fact, she is going to be very busy shooting for the next two years. Just after completing the shooting of Sarkar Raj, the actress will fly to Europe for her third Hollywood venture which is a sequel to Hollywood blockbuster Pink Panther. It is also reported that the actress will be playing the female lead opposite Steve Martin. Actors Andy Garcia, John Cleese and Alfred Molina have also joined the crew of Columbia Pictures/MGM's ‘The Pink Panther 2’.Ash will star as a detective along with ‘Spiderman 2’ villain Molina and Garcia, who join forces with bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau, to be played by Martin, to catch the thief who has been stealing artifacts around the world. Cleese will play Clouseau's superior chief inspector Charles Dreyfus in the movie, according to reports.Agent Cody Banks director Harald Zwart will be directing the film, which was penned by Scott Neustadter, Mike Weber, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Steve Martin.The film will be produced by Robert Simonds and Ira Shuman will be executive producer.It is also learnt that Ash will start shooting for a film with Abhishek Bachchan to be directed by Tarun Mansukhani for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions early next year. With a such packed shooting schedule ahead Ash might just be glowing with work only.
Ahs with Hrithik During Dhoom2 Shooting
Dream Girl Ash 4 All Her Fans!
Aishwarya Rai was born in the south Indian state of Karnataka in Mangalore on 1st Nov 1973. She was younger of the two siblings, her brother being 3 yrs elder. When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay permanently. Her father worked as a merchant navy officer. Aishwarya did her schooling at Arya Vidya Mandir, Santacruz. Academically, she did very well and earned her position as the head girl of her school. Ash chose the science stream while at DG Ruparel College, her favorite subject being Zoology. Aishwarya wanted to do medicine, but circumstances didn't let her. Instead she chose Architecture and passed the interview at Raheja College with flying colors. By this time, Aishwarya had started getting modelling assignments. She then decided to take a break from architecture and concentrate on modelling. From that point there was no looking back. Ash became a household name with the pepsi ad campaign. She was crowned Miss Femina World and went on to win the Miss world title at Sun City in 1994. Ash had now joined the Bollywood film industry and working under many prestigious banners.
Her film debut in Mani Rathnam’s ‘Iruvar’ (1997) received critical acclaim and her performance in Rahul Rawail’s ‘…Aur Paar Ho Gaya’ (1997) garnered her the Best Female Debutante Award. In 2000 she was awarded Best Actress by FilmFare and Zee Cine for her work in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”, in that same year, nominated for Best SUPPORTING Actress for her special appearance in Aditya Chopra’s MOHABBATEIN. In 2001 Ash was nominated for FilmFare’s Best Actress Award for Satish Kaushik’s “Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai”.
Ash’s star continued to rise in 2002 working again with Sajay Leela Bhansali in ‘Devdas’. ‘Devdas’ is the most ambitious and most successful film in Bollywood history. It became the first Bollywood picture to ever receive a special screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and broke box-office records in India and the United States. Daily Variety’s (06/12/02) Derek Elley describes ‘Devdas’ as “…some of the most sumptuous production values in Bollywood history…” Elley describes Ash as “almost Audrey Hepburn-like”, Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann says “I loved her in Devdas” and Julia Roberts calls her “the world’s most beautiful woman”.
Some of her new films to be released in 2007:
# Singularity (2006/I) (in production)
# Bhopal Movie (2007) (in production)
# Chaos (2007) (in production)
# The Rebel (2007) (announced)
# Sarkar 2 (2007) (pre-production)
# Jodha-Akbar (2007) (filming)
# The Heart of India (2006) (filming)
# Guru (2006/I) (post-production)
# Dhoom 2 (2006) (post-production)
Ash-Hrihik's Jodha Akbar Music Release
Jodhaa Akbar’s music launch at Grant Hyatt, Mumbai saw a beautiful touch of royalty as Art designer Nitin Chandrakant Desai ensured that princess Jodhaa’s bridal doli and King Akbar’s sinhasaan (royal chair) welcomed the guests right outside the entrance of the ballroom where the music launch was to happen. “We wanted to give a romantic as well as royal touch to the music launch of this magnum opus and that’s why we thought of reminding everyone of the wedding of Jodhaa and Akbar. What better than a Jodhaa’s doli to symbolize that? Also just keep watching we have even planned to give a war backdrop to the movie premiere of this film which is scheduled to happen next month.” The renowned art designer however played safe when asked for details. Will you have people dressed as warriors for the premiere we asked? “Lets see if that works out”, said he as if to cover up for the secret he had revealed. We also cornered Ashutosh’s wife Sunita Gowariker for the same but the lady as if to keep the plans under wraps tried hard to deny the news. “Well, nothing concrete has been planned as yet. Besides, the film is a story which showcases how romance evolved between Jodhaa Akbar. So we’d rather have a romantic backdrop, don’t you think”, said Sunita. We are waiting with baited breath to attend the premiere of this lavish looking film to know the truth!
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