Aishwarya Rai’s Holi goes dry as she shoots Bollywood’s next Holi song

Bollywood hasn’t been playing much of a Holi in the recent years. The last Holi song that was shot was way back in 2005 that had this racy, titillating number ‘Do me a favour….let’s play Holi’ starring the super sexy Priyanka Chopra with the hot-bodied Akshay Kumar in Vipul Shah’s ‘Waqt: Race Against Time’.

Since then, the B-town has seen the evolution of Hindi cinema with sensible and new-age films being made including the likes of ‘Taare Zameen Par’, ‘Dev D’, ‘Rock on’, ‘Wake up Sid’ and ‘3 Idiots’ to name a few but none of them have showed the frenzy of this coloured festival.

But, renowned director Vipul Shah has geared up again to record another Holi song for his upcoming ‘Action Replay’. Using organic and skin-friendly colours, he has captured the thrill and joys of Holi once again with Aishwarya Rai and Neha Dhupia getting smeared up in the rainbow colours. But, instead of going wet, they decided to save gallons of water and played dryHoli.

“We saw no point in wasting 70-80 tankers of water for a three-day shoot, given that Mumbai is facing a water crisis. As a responsible citizen, we chose the dryHoli concept to picturise this Shreya Ghoshal song, penned by Irshad Kamil,” cites Vipul Shah.

The song in question is an AR Rahman composition whose lyrics go like this- ‘Jali toh bujhi na kasam se koila ho gayee haan………’

So, if you are looking forward to a good Holi track, AR, surely, doesn’t seem to disappoint. But, if you were hoping to feast your eyes on a wet Aishwarya with colourful water dribbling from her drenched, transparent chiffon saree, you are up for a heart-break……