Ash in Bhandarkars camp

Aishwarya Rai! Aishwarya Rai! What you will call this year? Ash year. Yes, this year there is total -ash for the bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai.

Aishwarya Rai has take one more step forward in his sky-scraping career. Ash will be seen in National award winner Page-3 fame Madhur Bhandarkars -Corporate.

Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai will play a scheming, ambitious entrepreneur in filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar s next film titled -Corporate.

Just as Bhandarkars last film Page 3 exposed the quagmirish lives of glamorous social circles of the Mumbais elite, his next venture -Corporate will expose the oft-unseen manipulations of the ambitious and the cunning in the business world.

Madhur Bhandarkar on Ashs role in the film, told a Mumbai-based entertainment site: “It is the role of a scheming, ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur. The character goes through innumerable stages. I wanted someone with the personality of a complete woman. Ash fitted the role perfectly.�

While Ash is learnt to have committed to the project, her dates for the movies shooting are still to be worked out.

Bhandarkar is co-writing -Corporate with Manoj Tyagi, a 35-year-old MBA from Delhi who spent 10 years with various companies like Xerox, Canon and ABN Amro Bank.

The movie will be produced by Sahara Precept, the producers of National award winner -Page 3.

Bhandarkar says -Corporate will be the second movie of his planned trilogy. The third movie, he says, will be called -Signal which will show the lives of people who are seen on traffic signals people like newpaper sellers, beggars and eunuchs.

Can Bhandarkar with Ash repeat the success of National award winner Page-3?