Aishwarya to do some kickass stunts in Sanjay Gupta's Jazbaa

Now that little Aaradhya has started going to playschool her star-mom Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to come back to acting. For a while it seemed Aishwarya’s first director Mani Ratnam would be helming her comeback film. But that project has been put on hold. Talk ofAishwarya being in a film directed by adman Prahlad Kakkad also proved to be just talk. Aishwarya now makes her grand comeback with the first full-fledged action film of her career, as reported earlier by Tellychakkar.com. Entitled Jazbaa the film will be produced and directed by Sanjay Gupta and will start rolling early next year. Aishwarya will be playing her first full-fledged action role. Says a source close to Aishwarya, “Ash’s biggest temptation for doing Jazbaa was the stunts. Though she has done some action scenes in Dhoom 2 she didn’t have the kind of stunts that Hrithik Roshan had. Gupta will cast her as the hero in Jazbaa. She will do all the stunts without the help of a body-double. She has already started training for the role. She has lost oodles of weight and will be in the shape that was when she played the svelte Sunehri in Dhoom 2 six years ago.” Conforming these developments Sanjay Gupta says, “Just because Aishwarya is in Jazbaa we should not label the film female-centric. To me, she’s the hero of the film. There is no gender-specificity in what she does in the narrative. I’ve cast her in a role like any of the heroes in my films. She could be John in Shootout At Wadala or Sanjay Dutt in Zinda. It’s that kind of a role where her gender plays no role in the proceedings.” Two prominent male actors are yet to be cast alongside Aishwarya. “We start Jazbaa in January 2015. We’ll be showcasing Jazbaa at the Cannes film Festival in 2015,” promises Gupta. Interestingly Sanjay Gupta is also working with Aishwarya’s husband Abhishek Bachchan, though not in Jazbaa. Abhishek stars in Gupta’s Khottey Sikkay which he will make immediately after Jazbaa. Says Gupta, “After a 1 ? year gap when I was scripting I am now doing three back-to-back films, beginning with Mumbai Saga starring Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi and Manoj Bajpai. This will be followed by Jazbaa featuring Aishwaya and then Khotte Sikkay.” The prolific filmmaker promises no compromises in the three films. “There will be no breaks in the storytelling for item songs. I will tell the stories heedless of extraneous demands. Though Jazbaa will star Aishwarya it won’t use her ultra-glamorous personality to light up the frames. She will glow from within.”