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If the reports are to be believed, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar has fetched co-producer and presenter, UTV Motion Pictures, a whopping Rs 90 crore for the rights.The magnum opus toplining Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, reportedly cost Rs 50 crore, though Gowariker has gone on record to say that the official budget is Rs 40 crore.Wise option “It’s a good deal for UTV,” says a source. “They had chosen to hold their rights for Gowariker’s earlier film Swades and rued the decision. Despite winning critical acclaim, the movie had not made much money.” ” That’s why they chose to sell the domestic rights of Rang de Basanti to other distributors, retaining only the overseas territory. It proved to be a sound business strategy and they’re staying with it for Jodhaa Akbar too.”
Siddharth Roy Kapoor, Executive Vice-President, Marketing, Syndicate, Distribution, UTV, when contacted, refused to confirm the news. “No comments,” was all that he said.
It seems like Ashwariya is not just busy in acting but also busy in launching diamond jewelry for Nakshatra. The ever green beauty queen Aishwarya Rai came to Chennai as part of her association with Nakshatra on December 20, at Park Hotel. The dazzling beauty unveiled the fabulous Nakshatra New Winter Wedding Collection of diamond jewellery. Later she met the press in a relaxed mood. She expressed her desire to act in a Tamil film if she gets time and a good script.
Very soon we will get to see John and Aishwarya working together. Sources reveal that they were supposed to be working on two movies together. However, shootings could not take off as Ash had some date problems. Looks like the audience will have to wait for some more time to se the couple together onscreen. Reports reveal that John is pissed off with Ash’s attitude and decided to back off from one of the projects. To make matters worse, his vacation with Bipasha Basu in Kenya also got cancelled because of the political turbulence in the country.
If sources are to be believed Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be paired opposite Rajnikant in Shankar’s forthcoming film Robot . Shankar who created box office history with his last release Sivaji – The Boss had been to Mumbai recently to meet Aishwasrya Rai. According to a source the South based filmmaker was in Mumbai for few days to meet Aishwarya. He came in the first week of January and discussed the script and her role with Ash. “Aishwarya has gone through the script before joining Abhishek who is shooting for Dilli 6 in Rajasthan. Even though she has gone through the narration, she is yet to decide about Robot .” says a source. It believed that Shankar wants Robot to be bigger than Sivaji – The Boss . The film is said to be backed by the Hollywood giant Sony Pictures who are planning to make it a 100 crore budgeted project. It has also learnt that Rajnikant and Shankar are keen to co-produce Robot together. South King Rajnikant has given his nod to the project after Bollywood’s Badshah Shah Rukh Khan denied it. Now director Shankar wants a big actress opposite Rajnikant. Since the movie is going to be in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Shankar feels Aishwarya will be apt for it as she has already done south films. It can be recalled that Kareena showed interest in Robot when she came to know that SRK is going to be part of the film. It is also believed that Kareena herself expressed her desire to work with Shah Rukh for the same film. But it couldn’t happen because SRK had some differences with director Shankar regarding its script.
