Aishwarya Rai News: Bollywood's Favorite Miss World Aishwarya Rai To Return To Film For First Time Since 2010; Aishwarya Rai And John Abraham Make Premiere Pairing In Sanjay Gupta Movie

Aishwarya Rai Movie News: Legendary Bollywood Icon Aishwarya Rai is coming back to film. The former Miss World, who was voted the most beautiful woman in the world, hasn't made a movie in almost five years.

Reports Aishwarya will play a lawyer in the film. "Jazbaa" will be an action thriller based on stories about real life gangster Abu Salem, who will be played by John Abraham. This will be the first time Rai Bachchan and John Abraham will act together.

According to Hindustantimes.com, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is set to begin work on Sanjay Gupta's next film. The last time we saw the "Mistress of Spices" on the big screen was in 2010, when she made Guzaarish for the director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Aishwaryas Rai Bachchan will star along with Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi and Anupam Kher in the film "Jazbaa."

Aishwarya's husband, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, is reportedly as excited to see his wife back on the big screens as this writer.  

"I am very excited to see Aishwarya in 'Jazbaa'. It should be a lot of fun. It's a great script. I love Sanjay Gupta as a director and I think they'll make a fantastic team, and it's always wonderful to see her on screen," he told local outlets in India.

The brand ambassador of L'Oreal Paris took some time off from film after she gave birth to Aaradhya, stepping out to promote cosmetics and comment on the bikini contests in beauty pageants. But she will be on the set on Monday January 12 for an elaborate script-reading session, according to Hindustantimes.com.

Sanjay Gupta told the Hindustantimes that, while Bollywood films don't normally do these table reads, "Internationally, it's the norm. More than anything, it helps the cast bond with each other before the shooting starts. It's a better arrangement than having the actors reach the sets and directly begin reading their lines in front of each other."

According to Hindustantimes.com, a source explained that "the makers want the actors and other technicians to be comfortable with one another and let them understand each other's working styles before the film starts rolling. That's why the entire primary, as well as secondary cast (of about 17-18 actors) in addition to the heads of the other departments of the movie, will be present at the script-reading session."

The table read was originally scheduled for on January 9, but was postponed because Irrfan was ill.

"Yes, we would have got it done on Friday, but Irrfan was bedridden so we couldn't do it. But now, we are set to go ahead on Monday," Gupta told the paper.

"Jazbaa" will shoot in Mumbai and premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival 2015 in May.

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