Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is busy in the coming days. Aishwarya is the leading lady in Mani Ratnam’s much talked about ‘Raavan’ and ‘Guzaarish’ by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Both the films are slated for release this year. Both these films are graced with Ash giving a career-best performance, is what the critics are saying who have seen the rushes.

Ash’s third film this year is Vipul Shah’s Action Replay along with Akshay Kumar. In this film, Aishwarya, for the very first time will be trying her hand at a full-fledged comedy. It will be really a challenge for Ash to make her fans accept her in such a comic role for the first time. So now the question is, which Ash will we get to see?

The upcoming Vipul Shah’s new flick ‘Action Replay’ staring Akshay and Aishwarya has created much hype in the glam-town and to spice it up more the filming unit has added a musical number in the film offering tribute to the famous pairs of the1970s. The star duo plays tribute to the elderly couples of 1970s like Amitabh – Jaya, Dharmendra – Hema, Rishi – Neetu, Rajesh – Mumtaz and Shashi – Parveen in a single song. Pritam has composed the music and the theme song ‘nakhre nakhre’ would capture the mind of the mass, the director believes.

Vipul Shah says, “This song, which will be shot in Manali, starts in a playful manner and then goes on to salute the stylish romance that was a trademark of the 1970s.”

It is rumored that the film is based on Hollywood’s Brad Pitt starrer ‘A Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’ Let’s see if Akki-Aish screen chemistry works well with the fans.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is well known for her size-zero physique but she has a secret fetish which would shock her contemporaries. She likes and takes lots of sweets and chocolates but nobody knows where the extra calories are loaded. She is still slim and cute. Her dietary regime is a top secret which resists her from picking up some extra kilos even though she takes her lovely sweet delicacies and ‘mithais.’ She sinks her pearly teeth in sweets and chocolates everyday and she even stashes them up for munching during her shoots, at home and hoards up even in her refrigerator.

It is said that ‘mithai’ is her favorite and she can’t resist the temptation until she teethed it. It is almost a year or two post marriage and she still has her gorgeous curves and flat tummy and remains a top actor in the tinsel town. What’s your big secret Aish?

The MSN conducted a Decade Special for Bollywood online poll for the ‘Hottest Bollywood couple of the decade.’ A whooping total of 38000 polls were recorded and the Salman – Katrina pair bagged the first place with 36 percent of total votes leaving the Abhishek – Aishwarya couple to 27 percent of the votes. Actor couple Bipasha – John scored 13 percent and big surprise came last. The Saifeena couple scored only a mere 6 percent of the total votes despite their best efforts to publicize their pairing.

Besides the ‘Hot couple’ category MSN also had other categories like the ‘Hottest liplock of the decade’ and the ‘Superstar’ of the decade. The Emraan – Mallika liplock in ‘Murder’ bagged 39 percent of total votes and topped the list.

Voting is also conducted for the ‘Worst film’ category and Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Aag’ topped the list along with the sci-fi movie ‘Drona’ with nearly 48 percent of the total votes.

The filming of Maniratnam’s ‘Ravan’ is over and post production works are in progress. Initially the director had some reservations in making Aishwarya dub for the movie but on hearing her mouthing the language he was very much impressed. Throughout the filming of ‘Ravan’ she was tutored well in Tamil. The dedicated pupil learned it fast and she expressed her proficiency at the dubbing studio and raised the eyebrows of many.

She made her debut in Tamil with the same Maniratnam’s team in the earlier flick ‘Iruvar’ and at that time the language was Greek to her. They say it takes tough practice to become fluent in Tamil. The lady has mastered the language in few months and expressed her dedication in work to everybody’s awe. She was appreciated by the film unit not only for speaking in Tamil but also for using the right accent in the right places.

The blue eyed diva of Bollywood Aishwarya is goading her mother-in-law Jaya Bachchan to tweet her feelings in the net through Twitter. She recently tweeted in her account as “A big hello from maa, I am insisting her 2 join Twitter.” Jaya Bachchan celebrated her 62nd birthday on Friday and it Aishwarya took the occasion to insist on her joining to Twitter. Jaya Bachchan has so far remained only as a family woman and did not take part actively in social networking. On April 9th, Big B, Aishwarya and Abhishek wished her a very happy birthday in their Twitter accounts. Amitabh also wished Sharmila Tagore who also was celebrating birthday on the same date. Abhishek who is busy in Goa tweeted as “Today is the birthday of the mothership! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ma! Love you (sic).” Though everybody is insisting on joining her into the micro blogging site, we haven’t seen any message from her yet.

British actor Sir Ben Kingsley, well known for his Oscar-winning performance as Gandhi (1982) is set to play the role of Shah Jahan, who built the famous Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Mumtaj, in the upcoming film ‘Taj.’ It is said that Aishwarya Rai plays opposite to Ben Kingsley in this film as Mumtaj. The shooting is scheduled to start in the month of July and the prime location of shooting is said to be Agra, where the actual Taj Mahal is located. The film is planned to release in 2011. Kingsley’s wife Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender plays the role of Shah Jahan’s first wife, Gandhari Begum, the Persian princess. Kingsley’s company, SBK productions is producing the film. The story of the film has important role for Shah Jahan’s first wife, who was active in the king’s household matters. It is said that Aishwarya is very much delighted and immediately accepted the offer for the role.

The latest news in Bollywood is that Aishwarya and a south star Vikram luckily escaped a bomb blast while shooting for the Maniratnam’s film ‘Ravan.’ For the shoot, it is said that they used a petrol bomb and it was hurled from a distance of 25 feet and it is supposed to explode in mid air. Unfortunately, unlike planned, the bomb didn’t explode and it fell near the film couple Aishwarya and Vikram and they ran for life and escaped. It was planned to accuracy but didn’t go well at the first instance. The whole unit was in shock and the director got tensed much. But the actors enacted the scene well again and it was shot well. It is said that the director wanted to shoot his real life bomb scare where a bomb was hurled at him and it exploded in mid air after the release of his hit film ‘Bombay.’

Abhishek feels that he has the coolest wife he can ever have on earth. In an interview recently he emits a sigh of relief and says there are no women in his life who are shopaholics. Both his mother and wife are not much interested in shopping. He also says that he would love to take his wife on a shopping spree but Aish would remain uninterested. He says he loves to give them gifts. He praises so much about Aish that he has a down to earth wife who would come to Stanford Bridge to watch soccer match and cheer louder than him. He adds that she knows more about video games than he does. She loves to watch action movies. He also revealed that while they were dating they went and saw movies like X-men and feels very cool about it. He concludes that his marriage is just great.

It is said that Bipasha was offered to play the role of Abhishek’s wife ‘Mandothari’ in Maniratnam’s much hyped ‘Ravan.’ But later she was dropped out after much of rehearsals, dress fittings and 20 days of allocation. It is rumored that she was dropped because her character was much of a threat to Aishwarya’s and Priyamani’s character. Bipasha is very much upset but she claims that it was an amicable decision between the director and her.
When asked for comment she says, “I am sad but it’s better than having my role chopped or totally edited when lot of effort had gone to work out the role for this guest character.” She also says that initially she was a part of ‘Ravan’ but Mani sir said that he could not do justice to the character as it would conflict with the main story. She said her role was not dropped because it threatens Aishwarya’s character.