Aishwarya Rai

I think we have already mentioned “Aishwarya Rai” and King Paaji “Akshay Kumar” getting together for a movie once again. It’s for Vipul Shah’s movie named “Action Replay“. I guess the pair last teamed up nearly five years ago for the Raj Kumar Santoshi’s movie “Khakee” ( i hope i spelled that correctly). But i do remember that the pair’s on screen chemistry was amazing and caught the eye of many. So maybe it seems little disappointing that such a hit pair made it to big screen after five long years. Anyways, better late than never.

Now the film “Action Replay” directed by Vipul Shah has been given and based entirely on the 70’s background and look. It seems to be a new trend now. Movie makers going Retro way these days. The most significant factor of the film which is the fashion quotient has been totally hidden from the public so as to keep it exclusive and as a surprise for the public. The fashion designers that are Manish Malhotra for Aishwarya and Shabina Khan for Akshay have worked very hard for the entire films ensembles. The make up artiste Paul Pattison has specially been called for the exclusive touch. You might recall him for his amazing work in films like “Brave Heart” and “Mission Impossible 2″.

This movie “Action Replay” is believed to be a story about a man who travels backwards in time to the 70s when he was young and handsome. So for the sake of 1970′s, Aishwarya and Akshay have been seen sporting very different looks on the set of the movie and Aishwarya Rai, as usual looks extremely gorgeous!

I was able to get few pics on the net. However no official posters or teasers have been launched by the production house as on now. But you know how the media is. They managed to leak out few images already. So here they are:

Aishwarya Rai (Action Replay)

Aishwarya Rai (Action Replay)

Aishwarya Rai (Action Replay)

Interesting Fact: While shooting for a Holi song sequence in the film, Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar and of course the director Vipul Shah decided against using the 70-80 tankers of water that would have been required for the shoot. “We decided to save the resource and send out the message that people should not waste water,” said Shah. I really wish that message gets through. Protecting this planet is a duty of everyone. Just do your bit and the world will change…Will change for better

Aishwarya Rai made the Bachchan and Rai family proud on 31st March’2009 when she was presented with Padma Shri Award 2009. Not only the families but i guess this is a proud moment for every fan follower of Aishwarya Rai. At least i am pretty happy for her. Padma Shri Award was presented by Pratibha Patil at the function in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Aishwarya Rai

The Bachchan family seems to have all the reason to be happy. After all, the tag of the Padma Awards seems hard to be leaving from the family. Amitabh Bachchan himself is an awardee of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. His wife, Jaya Bachchan, is an awardee of Padma Shri, and father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, had been conferred with Padma Bhushan. And now Ash simply adds another feather to the cap. Ahem! now that’s Bachchan’s family for you.

Besides Aishwarya Rai, our Bolywood’s real king, Akshay Kumar also got Padma Shri award 2009. He and wife, Twinkle, certainly had a great joy as well. Veteran actress and dancing queen of yester-years, Helen, was also bestowed with the Padma Shri for her contribution to art and cinema. Famous playback singer of yester-year, Shamshad Begum, and director of the central board of Reserve Bank of India, Ashok Shekhar Ganguly were among other prominent persons to get the prestigious award from the president.

Dr. Kakodkar received the Padma Vibhushan awards for his contribution to the field of nuclear science and technology.

Padma Awards, that is to say, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri aka Padmashree are given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants.

Our heartiest congratulations to our queen of hearts, Aishwarya Rai and kind Akshay Kumar for this achievement. Truly well deserved.

Update:I did manage to get some scans of the beautiful actress being awarded the Padma Shri award. And some sphotos of others moments from the function as well. Hope you enjoy ‘em.

Randhir Kapoor, one of the finest legendary actors in Indian cinema, is coming back to bollywood after a very long break. It’s nothing new these days that bollywood actors of 80′s and 90′s are coming back to bollywood to start their second innings in the glitzy tinsel town. But honestly, i never expected Randhir Kapoor to make a comeback and it really would be good to see him, on screen, once again.

Vipul Shah is the guy behind the movie which he named as “Action Replay“. As i have heard about it, Vipul Shah is all excited about Randhir Kapoor acting in his movie and he has penned a great character role especially for Randhir Kapoor in this flick.

According to Vipul, he is all excited about Randhir Kapoor in “Action Replay”. A newspaper quoted Vipul Shah as saying, “I’m a fan of Randhir and Rishi Kapoor. It was a dream come true when I got a chance to work with Chintuji (Rishi Kapoor) in ‘Namastey London’. Look at how many wonderful roles and films he signed after that. Now I’m hoping that after “Action Replay”, Randhirji too will be doing more films.” We all hope so, on the same lines Mr. Shah. Of course it will be good to see Randhir Kapoor in films again.

Off late, the last time Randhir Kapoor graced silver screen was with Honey Irani’s “Armaan”, where he essayed the role of a father to vivacious Preity Zinta. Randhir Kapoor will be seen in this movie as a scientist in his engrossing time traveling tale. Elucidating about the film, Vipul said, “Randhirji doesn’t play a mad scientist with his hair flying rebelliously and all kinds of fumes and fires escaping from the lab. Instead, He plays a calm scientist lost in his own world.”

Oops… i almost forgot. The leading stars of the movie will be our favorite Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starring opposite the Bollywood’s king Akshay Kumar. Wow, many know that Bachchan’s and Kapoor’s have strained relations. Now with Bachchan’s bahu Aishwarya Rai sharing same space with Randhir Kapoor on the film sets, would that bring the two bollywood rivals together or are we going to see some new doze of war-of-words. I just hope for the best!

Really eager to see this movie though. Wishing Aishwarya all the goodness, wellness, success and wishes for this movie!!!

Aishwarya Rai

Nah…. Probably the title will give you a wrong idea about this post. But let us clear it up for you!

In December 2008, there came a great movie titled “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Directed by David Fincher and starring the Hollywood’s top gun Brad Pitt, the film was a nice little success. The whole movie revolves around the guy named Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, who actually was born as an old man in the movie and starts getting younger as he grows old. Bizarre? Haan….

The movie actually did pretty good and was even nominated both in Oscars and BAFTA awards this year for best actor, best motion picture, among many more. It managed to get few Oscars for art direction, make up, visual effects etc. but no real biggies. So you can imagine, that it wasn’t the best-est of movies in 2008, but still was pretty damn good. Having watched the movie myself, i do think a Bollywood remake of it will do well in India. And that’s what we are talking here about.

Yes, it is true that a desi remake of ” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is in progress. What excites me more is that Akshay Kumar has been casted for the role of Benjamin Button. And Aishwarya Rai has been casted as the leading actress opposite Akshay in the movie. She will most likely play the role of Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett in english version). Humm.. It would be good to see Akshay and Aishwarya together once again after they made a great success in the movie Khakee! I really think they looked sensational in that movie. “Wada Raha” song is still one of my favorites. Anyways, about the film, well it’s being directed by Vipul Shah. Accroding to him “What we are attempting is very ambitious and it hasn’t happened in Indian cinema before. The film is an out-and-out romantic comedy but reversing time is the challenging element. We’re putting in a lot of effort to pull off this one. We have to keep improvising on our content and technical abilities all the time.”

The movie will start with Akshay Kumar as a 62 year old person and end with him being a trendy, fashionable dude who loves to wear bell bottoms and wide belts. So we are probably looking at bit of humor in the movie as well.

If this movie does half as good as what the original “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” did, then we are here for a great treat. By the way, the movie is to be completed and released around November or December. That’s the same time wherein Shahrukh Khan plans to launch his film “My Name is Khan” and Aamir Khan also plans to launch his “3 Idiots”