Sources close to Vipul Shah reveal that the Bachchan bahu has already rejected Pritam's composition for three times and has again asked him to make something special to fit the bill. In fact, the song number is to be filmed on Aishwarya Rai at the time of her entry in the film, and so she and filmmaker Vipul Shah insist that it has to be something special and not any run of the mill stuff, churned out by the music director and lyricists.
Now, music director Pritam and two lyricists Irshad and Kamil(have already written songs for Saif Ali Khan's home production 'Love Aaj Kal') are starting all over again from the scratch to render the number, which can satisfy Aishwarya and Vipul Shah.
It is not for the first time that Pritam has been working with Aishwarya Rai. In fact, he was the music director of Aishwarya Rai starrer Yashraj Films' super duper hit flick 'Dhoom 2', and that time Ash had no complaint against him, but this time situation is a little bit different.
The problem with 'Action Replay' songs are that they are based in the 1970s, and music director Pritam has been told to compose modern numbers with a retro feel to appeal to modern yuppie crowd, and this has been taking a lot of time.
The film requires seven songs in all but the trio of Pritam and Irshad-Kamil has been able to compose only three songs so far. Due to this and Vipul Shah's busy schedule with his Salman-Ajay Devgan starrer 'London Dreams', the shooting of the film has already been pushed from April/May to August/September. If Pritam does not come out with a sizzling song for Aishwarya very soon, the project may get delayed further.
The lead pair of Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar will sport a 1970s look in the film. Sources say that Aishwarya Rai has been given an extraordinary look in the film, wearing a yellow-knee-length skirt for a song number.
Akshay Kumar, who will be acting opposite Aishwarya Rai after Rajkumar Santoshi's flick 'Khakee', which was around five years back, too, will sport a distinct look having long hair throughout the film.
The film is based on Vipul Shah's Gujrathi play by the same name 'Action Replay'. However, contrary to its name, the film does not have many action sequences performed by action Kumar, Akshay, or any one else.
It may be recalled that Akshay Kumar and Vipul Shah have worked together in several super duper hit films like 'Waqt', 'Aankhen', 'Namastey London', and 'Singh Is Kinng', and so have terrific working chemistry with each other.
The mega budget film will also see the return of veteran actor Randhir Kapoor to big screen, playing a scientist in this time- travel- tale. He was last seen in 'Armaan' in year 2001.
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