Ash forgotten

Bipasha Basu, the husky dusky sexy bombshell of bollywood who oozes oomph with every twist and turn, has been selected to play the character of Abhishek Bachchan’s wife in upcoming mega- budget flick ‘Raavana’

Bipasha Basu will play the part of Mandodari, who was ‘Raavana’s most loved queen and had the authority to advise him on any state matter without inviting wrath of the demon king. Sources close to director Mani Rathnam say that Bipasha will play a full-fledged role in the flick, and she is going to start shooting in right earnest from the middle of September. The highlight of Bipasha Basu’s character in ‘Raavana’ will be a sizzling hot item number, which is likely to be in the same genre as that of ‘Omkara’s ‘Bidi jalai le….’

In all, Bipasha will have around forty minutes of footage in Mani Rathnam’s magnum opus, which is likely to take around twenty days of her shooting time. Aishwarya Rai plays the part of Sita (not Abhi’s wife as was the case in Mani’s earlier flick ‘Guru’), while Vikram essays the part of Rama in the flick.

Sources close to Bipasha Basu say that Mani Rathnam had approached the sizzling hot bollywood diva for the role opposite Abhishek Bachchan around a month ago. Bipasha seized the opportunity and immediately said yes to the project. However, Mani had prevented her at that time from disclosing about it to anyone else, and so she kept mum till now.

But now when Bipasha Basu’s costumes are ready, she just can not hide her excitement about the project. Her look as Mandodari, ‘Raavana’s chief queen, is gorgeous, and sultry beauty has been waiting with bated breath to join the unit of ‘Raavana’ to shoot her sequences.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Mani Rathnam chose Bipasha Basu to play the part of Mandodari as she can project the right balance of oomph and intelligence in the scenes, which was a must for the character of Mandodari to come alive on the screen.

In fact, Mandodari was not only Raavan’s queen but is also credited with the invention of chess, which is purely a mind game. It is for this reason that whenever Mandodari would reprimand Raavana for abducting Sita, he would just laugh it off without being angry. In fact, Raavana had a deep respect for her intelligence and righteousness.

However, the grapevine has it that Bipasha Basu was not the first choice for Mandodari’s character and got the part only after Sushmita Sen rejected the offer. Insiders reveal that Sushmita Sen did not have any objection to the role, and in fact, wanted to enact the character but Aishwarya factor finally led her to opt out of the project.

It may be recalled that Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai have been bitter rivals from their initial days of Miss Universe and Miss World respectively. They never liked each other and have always tried to avoid as much as possible. So, there was no possibility of Sush forgetting all that for Mani Rathnam’s ‘Raavana’.

Ash on trip across globe.

With the release of ‘The Pink Panther 2’ drawing close, Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai is set for a whirlwind tour across the globe to attend the film’s premieres.

Forget the hullabaloo about her marginal role in The Next Pink Panther . We all know it’s essentially a Steve Martin film and has Ash in a significant, though not necessarily long, role. Unperturbed by such twitter, Ash is now set to attend the film’s premiere in various cities across the globe, beginning with the New York premiere on February 3.

Hubby Abhishek Bachchan , who is also in New York, is expected to accompany Ash to the premiere. The duo will also be together on February 5 to celebrate Abhi’s birthday, when the senior Bachchans, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan , would join them in NY.


After that, Ash would head for Europe and Russia for the premieres of ‘The Pink Panther 2’, while Abhi will get busy promoting his upcoming film Delhi 6 .

Along with the cast and crew of ‘The Pink Panther 2’, Ash will attend the premieres in many cities, including Paris, Madrid and Moscow over the course of next 15 days.

Her whirlwind trip will end with the movie’s premiere at Berlin Film Festival.

Ash would then fly back to India to shoot another schedule of Mani Ratnam’s film Ravana .

Talk about living out of suitcases

Ash to take action against the false news

Beware of the Bachchans: Aishwarya Rai has sworn to take action on those who wrote the infamous Swine Flu and Pregnancy article recently.

Beware gossip-mongers, celebrities will take you to court There are stories and rumours galore about film stars, but celebrities are no longer willing to tolerate gossip that will affect their brand image . Many like Aishwarya Rai, Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar have threatened legal action to stop gossip-mongers from spreading false news about their personal lives.
Recently an article titled, "Aishwarya Suffering from swineflu""Aishwarya Pregnancy Hurdled By Career ", published by a website, infuriated Aishwarya so much that she issued a statement saying she would take legal action against those who are spreading rumours about her.

According to Archana Sadanand of Imagesmiths, who handles the publicity for Aishwarya, a celebrity's life is in the public domain but circulating untrue statements about them affects their personal lives.

Ash's busy schedule

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is busy juggling her time shooting for three films. She is back from the South after shooting for Shankar’s Endhiran and Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, which took longer than scheduled to complete shooting, hampered the shoot of Vipul Shah’s Action Replay.
Aishwarya still has to shoot for three songs for Action Replay and so the film will not release in October this year. All the travelling has made Ash sick and she was recently down with fever. But despite of that she shot for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish because Hrithik Roshan didn’t have any extra dates. She is also upset that two of her songs from Endhiran has made their way to the Internet.

The songs that are shot in the Machu Pichu plains in Peru are out on YouTube and already has 13,000 hits. The four-minute video that has been leaked has been filmed on Ash and Rajni against the backdrop of Incas in Peru.

abhisheikh tatooed ashwarya on his forearm

Previously, the macho man Hrithik Roshan tattooed his wrist to make his wife Suzanne Roshan happy.

The cine stars of the Bollywood are busy in showing their wife that how much they love them. After "Chhote Nawaab" Saif Ali Khan for Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan for his wife Suzanne, this time the junior bachchan Abhishek Bachchan is going to tattoo his wife's name Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on his hand.


According to the sources, junior Bachchan is going to tattoo his wife's name Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on his forearm. He wants to confess his love to his gorgeous wife. Now-a-days, Abhishek Bachchan is busy in the hectic schedule of his forthcoming movie "Ravana" in Ooty. He will tattoo his hand when he will be back to Mumbai.