Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may have scaled peaks, but she still counts her stint with ace director Shankar in Jeans as an integral part of her career.

Aishwarya Rai left her shooting schedule for Robot in Hyderabad for a day and air dashed to Madras to be with her mentor, Mani Ratnam who is hopitalised following a chest ailment.

Aishwarya Rai has expressed her happiness at the double Oscar win for music maestro, A R Rahman.

Director Mani Ratnam is going to shoot his next film Ravan at the Athirapally water falls in Kerala and nearby forests with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan in the lead.

Of all actors, the real life couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are being cast as Sita and Ram in Mani Ratnam’s new picture, about the Ramayana.