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……

Aishwarya Rai Casts Her Sweet Revenge

Recently, Aishwarya Rai had a tough time after false reports were published in a tabloid saying that she suffers from stomach tuberculosis and thus is facing problem to conceive. Ash is in no mood to compromise with the tabloid and when she came to know that it is associated with the organizer of the award function that she is going to perform, immediately she changed her decision.

Now Ash has decided not to perform for the show even if they threw a large sum to lure her. It seems anger and hurt of Ash is still fresh as she has turned turn down a lucrative amount of eighty five lakhs to enliven the stage with her hot number. She stated, “main nahi nachhongi no matter how strong the lure of lucre.”

Instead, Ash is demanding apology from the tabloid for the damage they had done on her personal front to which they have not reacted till now.

Well what could be other better way to calm her feelings of hurt? May be this is the best way to take a revenge.

Aishwarya's pregnancy postponed

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been trying to become a mother for some time now. The fact that she has so far not gotten pregnant is actually a cause for concern for the entire Bachchan parivar.

Mr Bachchan is especially sold on a grandson, but when asked about it he says, as usual, “When it happens, it will happen.”

It’s no secret that Aishwarya is 37, and she isn’t getting any younger. But it now comes to light that the reason for her inability to bear a child at the moment is because she has been suffering from stomach tuberculosis for a while. Says a source, “The medication Aishwarya is taking for her stomach ailment is hampering her from getting pregnant. Until the tuberculosis is fully cured, she is unlikely to risk a pregnancy.”

On his blog, an anguished Amitabh Bachchan has written about ‘the rich man’s TB’, dispelling the myth that the disease only afflicts the less privileged. Now that the supposed reason for the delay in her pregnancy is clearer, we can only hope and pray that the Bachchan bahu speedily recovers from the ailment and fulfills her ardent desire to become a mother.

Aishwarya Rai Values Relationship More Than Her Health

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Abhishek Bachchan had to leave Bhopal without Aishwarya owing to her poor health to attend an important family function in Bhopal. Ash as a dedicated housewife went after him to mark the 80th birthday celebration of Abhishek's maternal grandmother.

It reflects how Ash counts her relationship more than her health. For Ash it was difficult to attend for her shoot properly. She side away all her health issues to mark the family function.

Reportedly, it is heard that the couple earlier had made their commitment to Abhishek's 'nani' (maternal grandmother) and so Ash despite her health problems was determined to keep her promise.

However, her health is in the process of recovery but need some more time to get back to her fit position. According to hubby Abhishek he stated that his wife Ash is his nani's favourite and so she was determined to come down, he twitted, "Aishwarya is much much better, but still not 100 percent (fine). But she's my nani's favourite so she made the trip too. Should be back to fighting fit... in a day or two.”

The emotional Abhishek stated the moment was priceless’ for his grandmother who after such a long gap was able to get to see all her grand children together at her own place.

In an old Indian habitat everyone had the pleasure to partake in the family get together, Abhishek happily stated, "Made a surprise trip to Bhopal last night (Monday). Was my nani's 80th birthday! Her expression was priceless. All her grandchildren flew in from all over. My sister, our cousins all meeting after so long. Now everyone partaking in an old Indian habit, all sitting together... Eating, drinking and catching up!

It was nice to see his nani’ ( grandmom ) back in matriarch, loving grandson Abhi added, "My nani, of course, is back to being the matriarch! Making sure all her children are well fed and taken care of and doing what grandmoms do... feeding.”

It seems Abhishek and Ash despite their busy life haven’t lost their traditional value and culture.

Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai catch Travolta fever in ACTION REPLAY!

Akshay Kumar, the action guru of bollywood who plays lead in Vipul Shah’s upcoming flick ‘Action Replay’ opposite Aishwarya Rai, will be gyrating to a mushy romantic number in the film which will have steps taken directly from John Travolta’s super duper hit ‘Saturday Night Fever’.

Akshay Kumar is a big fan of the Hollywood icon and watched the flick several times to imbibe the spirit and style of the number. Sources close to production house say that Akshay Kumar- Aishwarya Rai number has an exuberant energy and a fashion sense of that era which was so popular at that time. As the Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replay’ is about the nineteen seventies and moves backwards, the Travolta style fitted in theme of the film perfectly.

Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai, who have come together after a long time (their last flick together was ‘Khakee’ by Raj Kumar Santoshi), are said to have shown terrific chemistry in the number. The romantic number has been filmed in such a way that it goes well with the current generation as well as the older generation who were patrons during the seventies.

Akshay Kumar, who has done several successful movies with Vipul Shah like ‘Namaste London’, ‘Singh Is King’, ‘Welcome’ etc is said to have performed in a superlative way for this character. His character in the film shows more affinity towards the era of seventies than present.

In fact, the film ‘Action Replay’ has been inspired by H G Wells’ ‘Time Machine’ and goes backwards in time. The story of the film depicts the theme and understanding of seventies in a very convincing manner.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Vipul Shah has also taken the help from Amitabh Bachchan’s flicks of the seventies. As Amitabh Bachchan was the ruling god of bollywood in the seventies, his flicks had ample material for creating the ambience and environment for ‘Action Replay’. Some mannerism of that era is said to have been taken from Big B’s flicks.

Vipul Shah being a perfectionist, also watched the television programmes of that era to create the right ambience in his own film. Sources say that he especially relied on the live cricket matches to note down dresses and other fashion accessories of the era.