Aishwarya Rai hot – has sent a legal notice to her former producers warning them against leaking her photo-shoot to promote Heroine.

The producers and the director of the film Heroine won’t be able to use Aishwarya’s name, while promoting the film. The actor, who was unceremoniously sacked following the announcement of her pregnancy, has sent a letter through her lawyers that she will seek damages if the pictures that she has shot for the film earlier, gets leaked out.

“Aishwarya Rai hot is wary about the extensive photo-shoot that she has done for the film. She was shot in numerous costumes. There were also a few shots that were canned as a test run. She is wary that those scenes might be leaked out as a promotion for the film,” says source.

The letter that was sent through Aishwarya Rai hot lawyers, specifically addressed to Madhur, mentions that the actress will claim damages if any of those pictures or shots come out in the media.

“Aishwarya Rai hot has already returned her acting fees, so there’s nothing that makes her liable to her director or producer. She is still upset with the way Madhur wrote a huge blog against her which basically called her a liar. She always wanted to come back and complete the movie, but the way things turned out, has left a bad taste in her mouth,” the source adds.

Though UTV and Madhur didn’t comment on the legal notice sent to them, sources in the production house confirm that such a notice has arrived.

“Madhur was not planning to use those stills, but we guess Ash didn’t trust us. The photo-shoots that we have done with her for the promotions are really great pictures. We are sorry that these pictures won’t be revealed ever to the world. Aishwarya Rai hot – is looking just awesome in the pictures. We are putting it in our safety vaults where it won’t come out ever,” says a source from the production house.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is particularly miffed by the never ending controversy surrounding her allegedly  being dropped from Madhu Bhandarkar’s film, “Heroine” post the declaration of her pregnancy.

Recently, Aishwayra’s spokesperson said that it is ridiculous the way the actress’ name is still being used to publicize the film and that too with distorted facts. “Certain sections of the media have recently carried stories on Aishwarya Rai being miffed because of Kareena stepping into the film after Aishwarya Rai backed out. Backed out? When did this become back out? We would like to put on record for the final time, necessary dates were given by my client as per schedules but the producers/director put a halt to the shooting leaving it ‘blurred’ and ‘vague’ for a while, not spelling out whether the film was being ‘stalled’, ‘delayed until resumed’ or ‘shut down’. Please note that this is far from the truth and everyone is aware of what the fact is and that Aishwarya Rai – was removed due to an implied prejudice after learning about her pregnancy.”

We will soon get to see Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan on TV. The reason? Like father-in-law, like daughter-in-law. Didn’t understand still? Well, as Amitabh Bachchan had hosted KBC, Ash is also going to be a host. It will be a chat show, which will be hosted by the gorgeous looking lady herself.
The Bachchans have now grown into a tradition of hosting shows. First, it was the senior Bachchan, who hosted KBC and Big Boss. Following his father’s footsteps is Abhishek who is currently engaged with the work of hosting ‘Bingo’. Now after the males dominating the hosting among the Bachchans, how can the females be far behind? It is really getting curious as how the junior Mrs. Bachchan will look as a host!

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.

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.

Aishwarya was offered an award in the India Today Woman Summit and as she was not able to attend it because of sore throat, Abhishek Bachchan stepped in her shoes and took the award. The organizers of the event wanted Abhishek to take the award on behalf of Aishwarya and it required lot of coaxing to make Abhishek fill up Aishwarya’s space. It is said that she had severe swelling behind her tonsils and she was not able to speak or swallow food. She developed high fever and was taking only fluid diets. Big B posts in his blog that Aishwarya had a restful day and there was slight improvement in her condition. Abhishek came off from his shooting of ‘Crooked’ and took good care of his wife and he even attended the India Today Woman Summit on behalf of her. It is said that she is far better now and she has even gone back to her schedule recently.