When Aishwarya Rai Bachchan revealed how Bollywood played dirty games with her; Said Priyanka Chopra...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan faced a terrible period in her career when she lost some good projects because of her bitter breakup with Salman Khan. While Shah Rukh Khan immediately replaced her with Rani Mukerji in Chalte Chalte, a few production houses went ahead without her with another actress despite the fact that Ash was the first choice for that role.

Years earlier Aishwarya Rai Bachchan discussed a lot many things about how Bollywood had played dirty with her several times. On the contrary, she said that when it was her time to be cast in any lead role she would make sure that she was not hurting the sentiment of other actresses. Ash stressed the fact that she used to make sure that no other actress was first approached for that particular role or at least the terms were quite clear.

She cited the example of Veer Zaara when Preity Zinta asked Aishwarya Rai Bachchan whether she was doing that film before accepting it because Yash Chopra had earlier offered that role to Ash.

Confusion between Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra

Despite taking all such measures a rift seemed to have created between Ash and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. There were rumors that J. P. Dutta had approached the desi girl for the lead role in Umrao Jaan, however later on it went to Aishwarya. Talking about the same Ash said that she was not aware of any such thing but was rather offended when Priyanka took up the role of female lead in Bluffmaster which was offered to her first.

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Ash even said that though Priyanka said she was not aware of such a thing, Ash did not believe it and was rather hurt by her decision. The PS1 actress said, “Many other filmmakers have played such dirty games with me. I regret that many colleagues to whom I gave acting and makeup tips have also behaved the same way by accepting the role without informing me.”

That was the reason for the fallout between Ash and Rani Mukerji. Incidentally, Priyanka had signed Bluffmaster because she had some free dates and the movie helped her fulfill her dream of working with Abhishek Bachchan . At that time there were strong rumours that Abhi and PeeCee had become very close.