Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has a choice: to follow mom-in-law Jaya Bachchan and disappear from screen or go the Sharmila Tagore way and return with a bang after having her baby. Since Amitabh Bachchan announced last night that he was going to be a grandpa, the question everyone's asking is whether Aishwarya will continue to act. When her husband Abhishek was born in February 1976, Jaya quit films although she had delivered a hat-trick of hits in 1975 — Mili, Chupke Chupke and Sholay. She came back five years later to do Nauker and Silsila before bowing out again. From Jaya to Madhuri Dikshit to Kajol, the norm has been to disappear from the movie scene for at least three to five years. Aishwarya had defied expectations that she would quit working after marriage, instead kickstarting an international career doing The Pink Panther 2 with Steve Martin. Back home, she acted opposite her husband (Sarkar Raj and Raavan) and other leading men (Endhiran, Guzaarish, Action Replayy). In the four years since the April 2007 wedding, she has continued to endorse a bunch of brands and been at Cannes every year representing L'Oreal. She also walked the Oscar red carpet at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles this year with Abhishek in tow. So, she might well look at Sharmila's example. Sharmila married Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi in December 1969, their son Saif was born the following year and she went on to deliver some of her biggest hits afterwards — Amar Prem (1972), Daag (1973), Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973), Mausam (1975) and Chupke Chupke (1975). In the West, of course, pregnancy has never caused a bump in the careers of actresses. Whether it's Uma Thurman who charged with a Samurai sword for Kill Bill within days of having a baby or Kate Winslet who signed a flood of films after her son Joe was born, Hollywood mommies don't believe in wasting time. Something Ash the "global star" would not have missed. That Aishwarya hasn't signed any film other than Heroine, for which she is now shooting, would suggest the pregnancy was well planned. The film is being shot in Mumbai in a start-to-finish 45-day schedule. She has given dates till July 30. The "author-backed role of a lifetime" was first offered to Kareena Kapoor and is said to be loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The Madhur Bhandarkar film, which co-stars Arjun Rampal, Shahana Goswami and Arunoday Singh, will hit the screens next year. All of today, Twitterverse was busy congratulating the Bachchan family — Amitabh and Abhishek are regulars on the microblogging site. While Abhishek has been missing from Twitter since his Paa tweeted about the pregnancy, he replied to The Telegraph's congratulatory message with a "Thank you…." Humour usually follows hurrah in the virtual world and the most retweeted tweet today was: "Bachchan household — three generations of Bachchans… BigB, WannaB, and now BayB." |
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