Ash to kick ass in Jazbaa

Now that little Aaradhya has started going to play school, her star mom Aishwarya Rai will make her grand comeback with Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Jazbaa’, her first full-fledged action film.

To be produced by Gupta, ‘Jazbaa’ will mark her return to the silver screen after her daughter’s birth in Nov 2011. The film will start rolling early next year.

Confirming these developments Gupta said, “We start ‘Jazbaa’ in January 2015. We'll be showcasing ‘Jazbaa’ at the Cannes film festival in 2015.”

The filmmaker clarified that it's not a women-centric drama. “Just because Aishwarya is in ‘Jazbaa’ we should not label the film female-centric. To me, she's the hero of the film,” he said.

Ash had done some action scenes in ‘Dhoom 2’, but she didn’t have the kind of stunts that Hrithik Roshan had. In Gupta’s film, she will do all the stunts without the help of a body-double. She has already started training for the role.

“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 Abraham 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.