Aishwarya Rai Unofficial

Aishwarya Rai’s first release this year isn’t a Bollywood film, neither is it a regional film. It is in fact the much awaited Hollywood film The Pink Panther 2. This sequel to the 2006 successful film The Pink Panther releases across cinemas in the US on Feb 6, 2009. The film is slated to release in India on Feb 20.

In the film, Aishwarya Rai would be seen sharing screen space with Hollywood legends such as Steve Martin, Andy Garcia, Jean Reno, John Cleese and Alfred Molina. The Pink Panther series narrates the adventures of bumbling detective Insp. Jacques Clouseau played hilariously by Steve Martin. This time round, he is on a mission to stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historic artifacts. Aishwarya’s character in the film is called Sonia.

This is not Aishwarya’s first attempt at being part of a Hollywood film. In fact, the Bollywood beauty and former Miss World is one of the few Indian actresses who has featured in many international productions such as Bride & Prejudice, The Mistress Of Spices, Provoked and The Last Legion.

While Ash did manage to get her fair share of attention with some of these films, she would surely be hoping to get even more international fame and worldwide recognition with The Pink Panther 2.

Kareena Kapoor greatly admires the way Aishwarya Rai has handled her acting career after marriage.

Much may have been written about Kareena’s poor equation with the Bachchans, but that doesn’t stop the Kapoor girl from raving good things about the Bachchan bahu, Aishwarya. Yup! Bebo is all praise for Ash and the way she has shaped her career after marriage.

As we know, Ash has become very selective about films after marrying Abhishek Bachchan . She turned down Karan Johar’s Dostana because she thought the audiences could not see her having affection for anyone else ( Bobby Deol , in this case) when Abhi is a part of the story. Ash has also become very particular about the directors and producers she wants to work with.

Kareena, who has obviously been following Ash’s career, says this is the pattern she too would love to have after her marriage.

Which brings us to the burning question of the day – when is Bebo marrying Saif Ali Khan ? Not at least for another two years, says Kareena, whose date diary is full till 2010. Coincidentally, by then the apartment which Saif is getting especially made would also be ready. Perhaps the duo would have the wedding ceremony and the griha pravesh simultaneously.

There’s been something missing from life, and until I read the news from RealBollywoodNews, I had no idea what it was. It was an anonymous hole deep down in my heart, unnamed but severe. Thankfully, I now know exactly what was missing and that my life will finally have meaning.

As will yours, dear film fan.

Bollywood is finally taking its longheld tradition of stealing deftly borrowing from major Hollywood blockbusters and attacking Robert Zemeckis’s 80s icon, Back to the Future.

If the new name, Action Replay isn’t a dead giveaway (which it isn’t), the synopsis for it, claiming that Michael J. Fox appeared in the original where he has to go back and forth in time in order to set events in the right order, should be.

Award-winning, Bollywood icon Akshay Kumar is taking over the role first made famous by Fox, and the gorgeously talented Aishwarya Rai
will handle the lead female role…which could be either his mother or the girl he leaves blacked out on the porch swing. That means Action Replay will be the second-goofiest film Rai appears in as she’ll be in Pink Panther 2 next year.

What do you think? How awesome does this sound? Is the prospect of a Bollywood version of Back to the Future way better than winning the lottery or just slightly better than winning the lottery?