Aishwarya Rai Bachchan To Play A Negative Character In Her Upcoming Film?
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By Lubhna Seal - July 31, 2019 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is being very choosy with the roles she picks to play in order to maintain a work-life balance. Although there is no confirmation as yet there are rumors around Aishwarya playing a negative role in Mani Ratnam's upcoming project, Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil. A source reveals, “It isn’t even grey. It’s an out-and-out black character. Aishwarya was not inclined to do a negative part at this stage of her career at all. She believes, and perhaps rightly so, that as an iconic actress she has an example to set to her fans. In a country besieged with crimes she doesn’t want to glorify negativity by playing a negative character.” The source says, “Aishwarya flew down to Chennai to meet her second-favorite director (after Sanjay Leela Bhansali). He sat her down, narrated the whole script and explained why as an actor she must do this. To her misgivings about what her daughter Aaradhya would think of her Mama playing a ‘bad woman’ Mani assured Aishwarya that Aaradhya would be proud of her mother when she was old enough to understand what acting is all about.” “There are two filmmakers I can never say no to Sanjay (Bhansali) and Mani Sir. I started my career with Mani’s Iruvar where I had to play a complex character of a politician and speak in Tamil. I knew nothing about either (politics or the Tamil language). But he had faith in me. That’s what gave me the courage to go for it.” It would be interesting to watch Aishwariya playing a negative character and her collaboration with Mani Ratnam makes it all the more exciting. The two have already done films like Guru, Raavan and Iruvur together. |