Abhi-Aish to be paired in Crooked

The film ‘Crooked’ produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under the banner of Excel Entertainment is to be made in the same like Hollywood’s top spy based flick Bourne Identity.

The movie features Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Gunal Pag, Boman Irani, and Jimmy Shergill in main roles. The film's shooting will start in Mumbai on January 4, and it has a non-stop schedule of 40 days in Greece, Thailand, London and Istanbul too.

Abhishek Bachchan's upcoming movies for 2010 include Mani Ratnam's Raavan opposite Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Paa with co-star Vidya Balan. The star is all set to bang the silver screen with his outstanding performance.

Ravan Film Caravans Seized

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Two caravans used in the shooting of Mani Ratnam's multilingual movie 'Ravan', starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, in Ooty have been seized for having forged vehicle documents. The two caravans had the same registration number.

The vehicles were seized in Ooty, some 550 km southwest of here, have been valued at Rs.12 million. Both Abhishek and Aishwarya are said to have used the vehicles during the shooting.

Hence, the shooting of 'Ravan' has been shifted to another hill station, Hogenekkal (some 300 km southwest of here). The racket may be much bigger since all top stars use high-priced caravans.

Police teams have left for Mumbai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu to look for other similar vehicles.

'Ravan' is being made in Hindi and Tamil. It also stars Tamil actors Vikram and Karthik. Since shooting began last year, minor problems have dogged the venture, including Ratnam being laid down with a mild heart problem, and cinematographer Manikandan handing over the work to
another celebrated cameraman Santosh Sivan.

Abhishek-Aishwarya embarrassed by Salman's love interest

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Salman Khan’s latest love interest, Claudia Ciesla, has put Abhishek and Aishwarya in an embarrassing situation. Claudia, who’s a German model-actress and has also been a Playmate, had her photograph clicked with Abhishek Bachchan while they were in Cannes.

Soon thereafter, the photo appeared in a Mumbai newspaper along with the story that Abhishek Bachchan was seen chatting with wife Ash’s ex-boyfriend’s current love interest!

Abhishek Bachchan could not recollect getting this picture taken. After some time he realised it was just one of the many photographs he and his wife got clicked with fans.

So now, as a precautionary measure, Aishwarya and Abhishek will be saying no to all fans wanting to get photographed with them, at least for the time being.