{"id":12359,"date":"2012-02-18T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-18T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:02:17","slug":"Aishwarya-to-star-opposite-SRK-after-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12359","title":{"rendered":"Aishwarya to star opposite SRK after a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The buzz doing the rounds is that Aishwarya is likely to star opposite SRK in her comeback film, Happy Birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The actress has been on a sabbatical over the past year because of her pregnancy. The smashing pair will be cast together in Sriram Raghavan&#8217;s romantic sci-fi flick after a decade &#8211; they last co-starred in Sanjay Leela Bhansali&#8217;s Devdas in 2002. A confirmation from Ash is awaited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raghavan had originally planned the project with Ash a few years ago. The filmmaker had then announced his plan to cast John Abraham opposite the actress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the project did not take off then and Raghavan shifted his focus on directing Saif Ali Khan&#8217;s upcoming thriller, Agent Vinod.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sriram plans to start the pre-production of Happy Birthday once Agent Vinod releases on March 23. While Ash still remains his choice for the lead, a slight change in the film&#8217;s concept has necessitated a new hero,&#8221; an industry insider said.<\/p>\n<p>A parallel buzz, however, suggests a different reason for SRK replacing John. <strong>&#8220;Ash wants to return with a bang, and having SRK on board will surely increase the film&#8217;s box-office value.<\/strong> Shah Rukh, too, has been keen to do a good film with Aishwarya for a while now,&#8221; a source said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier media reports had suggested that Ash&#8217;s comeback film would be Bhansali&#8217;s ambitious Bajirao Mastani opposite SRK. However, Bhansali has been planning to launch Bajirao Mastani for several years now but the film just hasn&#8217;t taken off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s hope the film has some sort of substance and doesn&#8217;t BOMB!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.in.msn.com\/exclusives\/it\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5858367\">Source MSN<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz doing the rounds is that Aishwarya is likely to star opposite SRK in her comeback film, Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The buzz doing the rounds is that Aishwarya is likely to star opposite SRK in her comeback film, Happy Birthday.","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":138,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}