Aishwarya's plan for Vipul Shah

Neither Aishwarya nor Akshay Kumar have any dates to spare to shoot a song for Vipul Shah's Action Replayy. The filmmaker agrees that his stars have a genuine problem, but he is not ready to release the movie without that number.

To bail Shah out, Aishwarya has suggested that he should fly down with his unit to London. She would fly from Cannes to London and shoot the song with Akshay in night shifts when the actor wouldn't be shooting for Patiala House.

"It is very, very generous and considerate of Aishwarya to suggest that she'd join me from Cannes, that I come to London and shoot the song with her and Akshay. She is really working very hard. Both Akshay and she have a genuine date problem," said Shah.

Akshay is in London for 90 days to shoot for Nikhil Advani's Patiala House.

But Shah is still in two minds about whether to take up his leading lady's kind offer.

"I need four days to shoot my song. I don't know if I can impose on director Nikhil Advani's time and money like this. Let's see. In any case, I've now postponed the release of Action Replayy from July to September."

Since the other big Aishwarya starrer Raavan releases in June, Shah thought it wise to re-position his film on a later date.

Aishwarya rai's first fullfledged Comedy Film

Aishwarya Rai has three very different films coming up this year, but director Vipul Shah says his film Action Replay will bring to the audiences her first full-fledged comedy.

"Of course comedy, which is the hardest genre to do, is not taken seriously at the awards. But in my film, Aishwarya has done comedy for the first time. She may have attempted it here and there earlier. But this is her first full-fledged comedy role. But she's welcome to get the awards for her other two releases...I don't mind," Shah said.

Mani Ratnam's Raavan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish are the other two films she will be doing this year.

While Bhansali's Guzaarish is set to release in November, Raavan and Action Replay, which also stars Akshay Kumar, are due to hit the theatres in quick succession within a month.

While Raavan is slated for a June 18 release, Shah is all set to release his film in July, arguing that the two films are completely different in mood, theme and treatment.

But the filmmaker had a bitter experience last year when his Salman Khan-starrer London Dreams released a month after the actor's home production Main Aur Mrs.Khanna.

Now apparently Shah plans to sit down with Mani Ratnam and figure out a release strategy whereby neither film suffers.

He said: "Raavan and Action Replay are very different films. And I thought I'd release (mine) in July. But I think I'll now discuss it with Aishwarya and Mani Ratnam. We need to work as one big family in this industry.

"Besides, I still have a song to shoot whereas Raavan is complete. I've yet to figure out when I can shoot it because both Aishwarya and Akshay are constantly travelling. We were supposed to shoot it earlier this year in the snow in Manali. Now we may go higher up at the Rohtang Pass or change the location for the song completely," the director added

Raavan's Release

After months of speculation the word is out on much awaited film from Mani Ratnam, the sources close to the director point to a June release as Mani Ratnam is getting ready for its audio launch in April. Rumor mongers have worked over time in speculating the films title and it is now officially confirmed that the movie will be named “Raavan” and is said to be released in all languages simultaneously as planned earlier in June.

The movie has a stellar star cast including Tamil Super star Vikram, Miss world AIshwarya Rai , Abhishek Bachchan among others. Oscar Nayagan A.R Rahman scores the music, while director Mani Ratnam has written and directed the film.

Aishwarya Rai Alset for 2010

With two of the biggest releases this year in Tamil going to be Aishwarya Rai’s the year definitely looks belonging to her. And as both the films are directed by the biggest, hottest and the highest paid directors in Indian cinema Aishwarya’s stature assumes rare significance.

First is ‘Endhiran’ directed by Shankar With the one man industry Rajinikanth already ensuring the success Aishwarya Rai will also travel with him in this sci-fi film which is said to be made at the cost of Rs. 125 crores. ‘Endhiran’ is expected to make Aishwarya the biggest ever Tamil star in recent times. With Sun Pictures at the helm of affairs the promotional blitzkrieg will also be the largest ever in Tamil history.

The other big film is Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’. ‘Raavan’ is a modern day adaptation of Ramayana. Ash plays the role of Sita. Vikram plays Ram in Hindi and Ravanan in Tamil. Cheeyan says Ash’s role is the toughest in the film. So her dramatic talents will also be seen once again in Tamil.

With one film to the masses and the other to the classes Aishwarya will rock the year without doubts. More over both the films are bi-lingual in masters and multi-lingual when dubbed and that will increase the name and fame many folds for the most beautiful woman in the world,

But Aishwarya’s characterisation in both ‘Endhiran’ and ‘Raavan’ are well-guarded secrets till now.