Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Vikram-Aishwarya rai to film in Kerala

Now that Vikram has completed his part in Susi Ganesan's Kanthasamy and Aishwarya Rai is on the verge of completing the first schedule of Robot (probably by October 8th) Mani Ratnam has decided to start shooting his bilingual film. The news is that he will start with the Tamil version first and will film scenes pertaining to Vikram and Aishwarya in dense forests of Salakkudi, Kerala; filming begins on October 10th.

Mani Ratnam is making this film in Hindi and Tamil. The Tamil version features Vikram in the lead role and pairs him up with Aishwarya Rai; Prithviraj plays the villain. After a long time, actor Karthik will work with Mani Ratnam, who made him a household name with Mouna Ragam and Agni Natchathiram.

The Hindi version features Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in the lead. Vikram makes his Bollywood debut in this version; he will reprise the role done by Prithviraj in Tamil.

Meanwhile, Aishwarya Rai is extremely happy for finally being able to act with Rajinikanth, who, according to her, is a family friend. Aishwarya Rai, while giving an interview in Gurgaon while inaugurating a boutique, said that she is enjoying acting with Rajinikanth. She said that it was a learning experience to work with stalwarts like Rajinikanth and director Shankar.

 
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Aishwarya Rai in Ashokavanam

Aishwarya Rai is about to arrive to India from Peru in a few hours time from now. She will feature in the film titled 'Ashokavanam'. But this is not a new film which she has signed recently. This is a film of Mani Ratnam which has fetched a title. Ashokavanam happens to be the film of Director Mani Ratnam and the estimated budget of this film is said to be 125 crores. Some sources reveal that the cast and crew of the film is taking almost 36 cores and so the film is taking a high stand in terms of investments.  

The Hindi version of this film is titled as Ravana and Vikram; Aishwarya Rai will work for the Tamil version of the fm. The film has Govinda in an interesting role and it is said that Abhishek will play the male lead in the Hindi version titled Ravana. 

Karthik and Prithviraj are going to play the characters of negative shade in this film. 

This film will have Mani Ratnam as the director and Simran will be taking up the duty as an assistant director. She is planning to make her debut as a director next year and will learn some few techniques from the ace director Mani Ratnam.  

Suhasini who happens to be wife of Mani Ratnam will play the role of a Devi for few seconds in this film.

 
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Vikram in Ashokavanam

'Ashokavanam' is the title of the film which is to be directed by the ace director Mani Rathnam. Vikram is doing the lead role in the Tamil version while Abhishek Bachchan plays the lead role in Hindi.

Aishwarya Rai is donning the female lead in both versions. The film's shooting is to commence soon in Challakuddi.

The film is based on the epic Ramayana and Aishwarya is donning the role of Seetha. 
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