Spotlight is again on Aishwarya Rai.
The film that is really going to drag Ash in to controversy
is Prithviraj-Sanjukta. Two filmmakers, Raj kumar Santoshi
and Chandraprakash Diwedi, have announced the same film and
both have approached her to play Sanjukta. Pragmatic to the
core, Ash is expected to buy Santoshi project. In the past,
she has declined offers from both.
At the moment she is shooting for J P Dutta's remake of
Umrao Jaan, and has awed everyone around with her beauty and
non-stop giggles. Umrao was earlier played by Rekha, touted
as gorgeous - but having grown from an ugly duckling - unlike
Ash who has been the symbol of beauty. During the making of
Umrao Jaan, Rekha used to say that she doesn’t understand
what her director Muzaffar Ali was making but went along.
She got the National Award for that. Whether Ash understand
the concept of Dutta is not known, though.
Ash has just completed the shoot of Hollywood's "The
Last Legion" where she plays a third lead. The shooting
of "Umrao Jaan" ends in Janaury and then she will
focus on Ashutosh Gowraiker's "Jodha-Akbar".
Ash is also doing the sequel to Dhoom, temporarily called
Dhoom 2.
