Aishwarya to play grey character in Siddharth Anand’s next?

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will apparently star in another of KriArj Entertainment’s films, post ‘Fanne Khan’, if rumours are to be believed. The film will apparently be directed by Siddharth Anand and could see Rai Bachchan in a grey character.

Bollywood Hungama reports a trade source explaining, “Prernaa and Siddharth’s film will be a slick, stylish thriller with Aishwarya as the protagonist. Aishwarya has liked the concept as the actress and Prernaa get along very well. In fact, Aishwarya had attended the producer’s birthday party on December 9. Prernaa had mentioned earlier in her interviews that she is planning another film with the actress.”

“This is the one that she has approached Aishwarya for and is keen that the actress does it. It’s a grey role with various layers to it and requires a powerful performer. Ash plays a woman who goes through an interesting transformation. It’s a role the actress has never played before. While she has played roles with grey shades earlier including, Khakee, Dhoom 2 and Sarkar Raj, this one will be the most challenging so far”, concluded the source.

The film in question was to be Sanjay Dutt’s comeback but Anand and KriArj’s Prernaa Arora had had a fallout so it didn’t eventually see light of day. The source adds, “This was Sanju’s first film but the film kept getting delayed. Apparently Siddharth and Prernaa could not see eye-to-eye on their choice of actresses opposite Sanju. The director had asked for more time for pre-production work but Dutt chose to opt out as he signed other films. Since then Prernaa and Siddharth have shared cold vibes. Siddharth moved on to his next, produced by Aditya Chopra‘s and starring Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff and Vaani Kapoor. That upset Prernaa more and they stopped talking to each other. But they met recently and sorted out their past issues and decided to seal their patch-up with a co-production. They will be producing this film together. They are waiting to give Aishwarya a narration and her final nod to the project.”

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