This year Aishwarya Rai has four films lined up for release – two southern projects Ravana and Endhiran as well as Action Replay and Guzaarish, collectively costing over Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
While her bilingual sci-fi film Endhiran, starring southern star Rajnikanth, is said to be made at a budget of Rs 125 crore (Rs 1.25 billion), approximately Rs 45 crore (Rs 450 million) has been spent on Mani Ratnam’s much-awaited Ravana, which is set for a June release.
Vipul Shah’s Action Replay costs around Rs 60 crore (Rs 600 million) and if reports are to be believed, UTV is shelling out close to Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million) for Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Guzaarish for which Aishwarya is currently shooting along with Hrithik Roshan in Mumbai.
Aishwarya has been busy shooting all these films for the past one year and even suffered health problems due to her hectic schedules.
Ravana is said to be a modern-day version and a loose adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Action Replay, starring Akshay Kumar, is a time-travel tale in the 1950s and its storyline is based on an eponymous 1994 Gujarati Indian play.
In Guzaarish, the actress will play a married nurse who falls in love with a paraplegic patient essayed by Hrithik.
Though each role is different from the others, it remains to be seen which one of these strikes gold at the box office.