Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been experimenting with her looks and makeup in every film of late. The actress started working on her look in Dhoom II where she sported not only a lean and sexy look, but also a golden tan. In Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar, Aishwarya wore black lenses keeping in mind the complete Indian princess look.

Now, with Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar Raj, Aishwarya will be sporting a complete corporate look since she plays the head honcho of a power plant. She wears a cool hair bun, teamed with dazzling solitaires and serious business suits. A unit source says, “Since this was the first film that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya were going to appear together in after their marriage, it was obvious she wanted to look her best. And she wanted to work on all aspects of her look whether it was make up, hair or dress.”

It was also rumoured that Aishwarya’s role is based on the character of glamour girl Rebecca Mark the vice-chairman of Enron. Aishwarya plays the contemporary businesswoman in the film and hence RGV has modeled her role on Rebecca. “I am representing a company in the film but my role is original. Moreover, I can’t have a Dhoom kind of body for every role. It was not a hitting-the-gym kind of role. No special effort was made in terms of looks. It was different and I enjoyed the character,” says Aishwarya. More importantly, Aishwarya had seen Sarkar and knew that Ramu liked understated power. So she wanted her look to be very subtle, but at the same time, powerful. Aishwarya is the new addition to the cast of Sarkar Raj as she was not a part of the original Sarkar.

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‘Jannat’ is an engrossing, touching tale of an intuitively gifted bookie who loses his love in pursuit of his idea of heaven.

Writer Vishesh Bhatt deserves a pat on his back for writing a simple story and providing it two distinct yet continually intersecting layers that eventually unite at the end with a dramatic climax. First-time director Kunal Deshmukh ought to be commended for his controlled and smooth handling of the subject and for giving the love story a tone of impending doom.

However, what mars ‘Jannat’ is the lack of sufficient development in the romantic track. After a while the story seems to go in circles. On top of it you don’t strongly relate to the emotional turmoil of the lead characters.

Arjun ( Emraan Hashmi ) comes from a middle-class family, but his dreams are big and he doesn’t mind taking the short route to riches regardless of morality, or the lack of it. He graduates from being a gambler to bookie, solely by the dint of his intuition to predict correctly. He falls in love at first sight with Zoya ( Sonal Chauhan ) and eventually goes on to win her heart, her trust, and her respect with his love and his riches. But when she comes know the source from where the riches come, she hands him over to the cops.

Arjun goes to jail and vows to reform himself – all for the sake of love. But then, one sight of jannat, one last temptation to fix a match, gets the better of his senses. And situations turn around so unexpectedly that he finds himself sinking just when he was about to come ashore.

Like all the Bhatt films, the story of ‘Jannat’ steers clear of the good-versus-bad formula. It is a subject in which both good and bad coexist inside the leading characters. There is no moral message, no sermonizing, but just the poignancy of a tragic love story.

Without doubt the man-of-the-movie trophy goes to Emraan Hashmi – the blue-eyed boy of the Bhatts – who gives a skillfully restrained performance, playing an ambitious man with shaky morals and firm equanimity in the face of success or failure.

Newcomer Sonal Chauhan catches your attention more because of her looks than acting. Samir Kochar is terrific in his role as an Indian cop in Cape Town, on the trail of bookies. Javed Sheikh brings an imposing demeanor to his character of a kingmaker don who takes Emraan under his wing.

The songs by Pritam may not be chartbusters, but they go along well with the mood of the film.

All in all, ‘Jannat’ is eminently watchable. Just don’t go expecting heaven from it.

Here is some insider scoop on Karan Johar’s much anticipated film “My Name is Khan. If industry sources are to be believed then Shahrukh Khan will essay a role of autistic suffering from pervasive developmental disorder.

“SRK can’t wait for the film to begin. He is very excited about playing this different character. He’s adventurous and dares to take risks, he dares to be different, and he dares to break all rules. It is a misconception that he is repetitive and does not like to play different characters. His performances in Swades and Chak De! India are the best examples to prove this point. My Name Is Khan will be a big trump card in SRK’s repertoire. Playing an autistic will be challenging. Shah Rukh will have to do a lot of homework.”