Is Aishwarya Rai quitting movies?

he gossip mills have now spun another tale: The actress has decided to quit

movies once she marries Bachchan Jr., although both Abhishek and Ash haven’t issued any official statement yet.

If the news is indeed true, what happens to the projects Ash had signed sometime back?

If readers would recall, Ash had been confirmed for Happy Birthday, with John

Abraham as her co-star. Produced by Gaurang Doshi [Aankhen, Deewaar] and

directed by Sriram Raghavan [currently directing Johnny Gadaar and an untitled

 venture for Rohan Sippy with Akshay Kumar heading the cast], the film was

supposed to start in early 2007.

“Happy Birthday is starting in March. Definitely with Aishwarya Rai. No,

she hasn’t backed out of the project. Nor has she refunded the signing amount.

There’s no truth to this rumor,” says Gaurang.

Wasn’t he supposed to start the film in January? “Besides John, Ash and Paresh Rawal, there are as many as 41 characters in the film, which we haven’t finalised yet. But Happy Birthday will take off by March-end and we plan to wrap up its shooting by July 10,

 Gaurang divulges, thanks to Sify :)