Aishwarya Rai, Akshay Kumar have great chemistry in 'Action Replay'

Aishwarya Rai

April 19, 2010, (Sawf News) - Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar's great chemistry in the upcoming period comedy has director Vipul Shah wondering why the two have not been paired earlier.

The two featured together in Khakee (2004) but Aishwarya was paired with Ajay Devgan in the film.

"Akshay and Ash look terrific together. I am surprised that no one has thought of casting them as a romantic pair. They are outstanding," Shah tells IANS.
Aishwarya's wardrobe overdrive

Aishwarya's retro look is something else, Shah is excited about.

"She is in a retro look. She looks gorgeous in every look but no one has seen her in retro look. It's fantastic to see her in the new light, he says

Aishwarya reportedly wears 125 costumes in the film. Her character in the film loves to dress up.

"It's a script requirement. That's how her character is etched out," explains Shah. "She is simply a person who loves to wear clothes and keeps shopping all the time. I had no clue that the number of costumes had extended to such a number that the girl who was managing her costumes kept coming to me for more and more space to keep them. That's when I realized that the number had gone so high."

Action Replay is tentatively scheduled for release in July, 2010. The finally schedule is currently being wrapped up in Manali.

The film is based on a Gujarati play of the same name that Vipul had staged over 15 years ago. Set in Mumbai, it is a humorous take on a person who travels back in time to the 1970s.

Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh, Abhishek boycott Filmfare Awards to protest for being publicly insulted

Aishwarya Rai
The revered Bachchan family boycotted this year’s Filmfare Award that was, recently, held on 27th February, Saturday in Mumbai. The reason for the boycott is evident. Only a few days back, the esteemed ‘Mumbai Mirror’ tabloid had printed an article on Aishwarya Rai claiming that she was suffering from stomach tuberculosis and was, hence, unable to bear a child from hubby Abhishek Bachchan.

This piece of news didn’t go down well with the Bachchan family who felt insulted and affronted over this story that they found to be extremely demeaning and disrespectful. “Thearticle was indecent and any man in the world must oppose if such an obscene article is written about a woman in his family,” posted Amitabh Sir on his blog.

Since its publication, the article has caused quite a ruckus and Abhishek, Aishwarya and Big B have slammed the tabloid rubbishing such spiteful reports and calling it a cheap way to garner publicity. “No women would like her personal issues such as fertility or motherhood being discussed in this manner,” quipped an angry Amitabh.

The Bachchan household demanded an immediate public apology from the media house but no such apology came from the ‘Mumbai Mirror’. “For the moment… that despite a few personal apologies from the management and owners, no public apology has taken place. You cannot abuse me in public and then come and say sorry to me in private,” Big B blogged.

And hence, not only did Ash shunned her performance on the evening but the entire Bachchan brigade absented themselves from 55th Annual Filmfare Awards. Lashing further Amitabh wrote, “The modesty of a lady in my house was slandered… thearticle slandered Aishwarya, so it was very difficult to participate in a function organised by the same media house.”