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Aishwarya Rai, who is currently busy with the Bachchans’ Unforgettable concert, says that as a co-star she had often asked Abhishek to experience a world tour. And when he finally agreed to it, they are dancing as husband and wife.

“You know, when we were co-stars, I always told Abhishek a world tour is something he must experience. In fact, for one of my world tours I had even asked my organisers to ask him to come onboard. He’d say, ‘Not yet, not yet’. And who would’ve thought when he’s finally ready for his first world tour, we’d go together as husband and wife,” says Aishwarya. “It’s a wonderful experience. We have danced together on screen and also performed together. But we’ve never been on a concert tour together. Even the audiences all over now respond to us as a couple. They keep showering us with blessings and good wishes.”

The actress took a break from her tour and flew back to Mumbai with Abhishek to meet her father who is unwell.

The shooting of Karan Johar’s next production Dostana directed by Tarun Mansukhani and starring John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra and Abhishek Bachchan is now complete, save for a song.
Tarun’s baby
Karan says, “Dostana is Tarun’s baby. He and the entire crew handled everything so superbly that I was worried. As a producer I was there in Miami for the first schedule for only two weeks. I was an unemployed producer. Dostana was the title of my dad’s (Yash Johar) first film and besides a sense of nostalgia meets emotion, my film and the 1980 Dostana have nothing in common. My Dostana is a love story with a fun twist.” The film ended on schedule and now only an item number needs to be picturized on John, Priyanka and Abhishek which we will shoot in September when Abhishek comes back from his world tour.
Do ka dhamaal
Director Tarun says, “Dostana is about three friends. It’s a cool, fun film which has emotional ups and downs. The trio play pranks and have fun together like all friends do.
It was great fun working with all of them. I  thought Abhishek, Priyanka and John would give me attitude being big stars; but they behaved like newcomers and said okay for everything. We finished shooting within 75 days. It’s a romantic comedy. Abhishek and John have an amazing chemistry they come across more as a couple than anybody else.”

Abhishek Bachchan may be going on his first world tour with wife Aishwarya Bachchan in a few days but the seeds of the plan had been planted in the year 2003 when the two were working together in the film Kuch Na Kaho. How’s that? Well, none other than the Junior Bachchan revealed it to us as he sat next to his beautiful wife Aishwarya after attending a press conference on Friday night. “She was going for a world tour herself and sent the organisers to ask me to come for the tour as well. But I couldn’t go as I didn’t have dates. Ever since then, she’s not let me forget it and I promised her that we will go for a world tour together,” revealed Abhishek as Ash cuts in with a giggle, “But we didn’t know at that time that we would end up going as husband and wife!” Abhi adds, “If you see the footage right after we performed for the first time at an event, she gave me a huge hug backstage and said, ‘This is what it feels like!’”

The last few days have certainly been hectic for the Bachchan bahu as she came down with German measles and could not attend the rehearsals for the world tour which sees her sharing stage space with not just her husband, but father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta and Ritiesh Deshmukh as well. Her blue eyes have a tinge of red as she rues, “I lost 20 days because of that. I thought this time I have a lot of time to prepare but then this happened. I’ve started rehearsing now but hope to do my best,” even as Abhishek adds, “She was physically incapable of rehearsing but still, she was the most active member. She’s been on world tours thrice so her expertise came in handy. Even when someone used to ask dad about the tour, he would say ‘Ask Aishwarya’. She was the final authority.”

Speaking of Senior Bachchan, we’re curious who Ash considers a better dancer — hubby dearest or her father-in-law but — she ducks the questions. “Our performance in Amsterdam was proof enough that the three of us truly enjoy dancing,” she puts it diplomatically but Abhishek is more vociferous about his choice. “I personally think dad is far superior. His stage presence is unparalled,” he adds. And when it comes to Amitabh, even Aishwarya couldn’t agree more. “He just has to stand on the stage and that’s enough. I’ve been a part of this fraternity for a long time and I’ve always wanted to go on a world tour with him. It’s a privilege to be going with pa,” she adds. So we guess, it’s two wishes that got fulfilled for the lady with the blue eyes.

Abhishek Bachchan is playing the perfect doting husband to wife Aishwarya Rai. When she fell ill after rigorous rehearsals for their much talked about ‘Unforgettable’ world tour that kicks off in Toronto Friday, Abhishek learnt her steps too.

“We have been rehearsing for the tour non-stop for nearly a month now. Shiamak (Davar) has been working us around so hard to get our dance steps right that my wife Aishwarya fell sick with exhaustion. For three days, she could not move out of the house,” said Abhishek.

“That put an additional burden on me as I had to do her steps also, not only at the rehearsal hall but at home too in order to teach her the dance steps Shiamak had given her for the songs she would be dancing to during the tour,” he told reporters.

Abhishek says now he is ready to pitch in for both his father, Amitabh Bachchan, and wife.

“I told the ‘wizzies’ (members of Wizcraft, which is putting together the tour) that if she falls sick again and won’t be able to dance during the show they should not get panicky because I have learnt all her steps and might as well double for her.

“Moreover, dad’s body is also no longer as nimble as it was. In case he gets tired during the tour I may have to do the ‘Kajra re…’ number all by myself. Well, I am prepared for that, too,” Abhishek said with a straight face during a media meet here. His impromptu ‘act’ threw everybody into splits at the event.

Apart from the Bachchans, Preity Zinta, Riteish Deshmukh, composer duo Vishal-Shekhar are also part of the tour. There will be some guest stars as well — Akshay will perform in Toronto, Shilpa Shetty in Britain and Madhuri Dixit in the US.

Bollywood’s famous Bachchan family will lead a bevy of film stars in a glittering stage show that will travel around the world to promote Hindi-language films.

Legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, his star son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, a former Miss World, will be the high point of the year-long show that begins on Friday.

Stage shows — in which top Bollywood actors dance to popular film songs — are a big draw for Indians living overseas and a major money spinner for the stars.

“It is almost a decade since I went to do any stage show on this scale. In our first leg of our tour we are going to cover 11 cities in Europe, US, and Canada,” Amitabh Bachchan said in Mumbai late Friday.

The actors will dance to 70 Bollywood melodies and will be accompanied by 40 professional dancers on stage.

The actors will go to Africa and Southeast Asia, before returning to India, where they will perform in several cities.

Rehearsals have been underway for several weeks.

“We all have been doing rehearsals for all the songs and dances for last one month before the show. We are looking forward to meeting all our fans across the world,” Rai said.

Aadesh has entered into an agreement with Motorola for a commercial to promote his first international track ‘Bollywood Meets Hollywood‘ with American rapper Wyclef Jean and Abhishek Bachchan. The song will hit the stores in the India in July under the Sony –BMG label. The song will feature the trio- Abhishek, Aadesh and Wyclef Jean.
Aadesh is very excited about his track and says, “The track is part of my album with Wyclef entitled Carnival 2. As you know Wyclef and I flew down to Miami to record the number with Abhishek who was shooting there for Karan Johar’s film. ‘Bollywood Meets Hollywood’ is already a craze abroad. Youtube is filled with the song. We’ve big plans for the song in India. I hope it would be like a singing launch for Abhishek.”
Aadesh also plans to tie up with other international super-artistes like Justin Timberlake in the near future.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan denies media reports that his son Abhishek lost his temper and slapped a spot boy on the sets of his film “Drona”.

“This is a laughable matter. Abhishek does not have the ability to strike a fly. He does have the ability though to attract incongruous and totally incorrect press. There has been absolutely no such incident on set. It is a fabrication of the highest order,” he wrote on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com.

Amitabh also rubbished the earlier incident when Abhishek had beaten up a photo journalist.

“The earlier incident with a press photographer was another complete fabrication,” Amitabh stated.

The Big B has been posting a lot of complaints against the media on his blog lately.

His recent addition reads: “We are aware that certain media and journalists have painstakingly taken it upon themselves to build animosity towards us and follow religiously an unprofessional bias that will never change.”

Well, the sources say yes. The perfect looking couple, who seem to have no fights, has finally started to live a normal married life. And with a normal married life, come the enhancement called fights. But then, this couple seems to not know how to deal with it. Recently, at IIFA, the male Bachchan seemed to have lost his temper on Ash and the couple was found screaming so much that the voices could well be heard outside their room.Apparently, the reason was the typical eager-to-catch-attention nature of the actress. While Jr. Bachchan tried to keep her low in an award function, the lady was busy being over expressive with Kunal Kapoor at an award function. This allegedly made Bachchan to excuse himself and Ash, to take her to a corner and talk about the issue. Ash seemed to be unconvinced and thus the duo, later had a huge fight!!
Now, this is like what it is to be really MARRIED!!!

Abhishek Bachchan, who has been known by for his happy go lucky nature with unusual calmness, created a scene on the sets of Drona a few days back. The actor, recently got mad at no good reason, and slapped a poor spot boy. The fault of the spotboy was only that the poor man had forgotten to switch on the fan which was one of the chores Abhi had given him including fetching the latter’s stuff from car and bringing him a glass of water. While following the actor’s orders, the spot boy forgot to switchon the fan, for which he was rewarded with an instant slap on his face. The slap and the insult was so hard that the spot boy could’t stop crying for hours. The son of a super star, though, didn’t even tried to go apologise or pacify him. At this, the spot boy finally resigned and left after being unable to tolerate the insult.
After all, they’ll find many spotboys, but ABHISHEK BACHCHAN is not born daily!!

Though Amitabh Bachchan is still the baap of all actors, Abhishek proved to be his son in Sarkar Raj. Junior has survived to hold fort when in the same frame as Amitabh in Ramu’s film. Now, things may’ve turned sour between Ramu and his scriptwriter, but the movie has only enhanced Amitabh and Abhishek’s relationship in real and reel life. When we met Abhi recently, he told us, “It was interesting that the son takes over the decision making role in this part and allows his father to be. This is what every son eventually wants for his father.” So has Baby Bachchan begun to make decisions at home, too? Over to you, Abhi!