Nonstop sense?

Ram Gopal Varma shoots for Sarkar Raaj by day in Hyderabad, and does post-production work for …Aag by night in Mumbai. (When do these guys sleep?)

Juggling schedules in Bollywood has become a way of life, and how! We realised the full extent of it when Ram Gopal Varma shared his crazy schedules with us yesterday. Ramu has actually been commuting between Mumbai and Hyderabad every day.

The filmmaker shoots for Sarkar Raaj at Ramojirao studios in Hyderabad every day, then after winding up the shoot for the day, catches a flight back to Mumbai. In Mumbai, he spends much of the night winding up the pending post-production and publicity work for Ram Gopal Varma Ke Aag. "I come to Mumbai every evening to work on the post-production of my film Aag, and return to Hyderabad in the morning for shooting Sarkar Raaj," Ramu says.

Meanwhile there's another filmmaker who's working overtime to complete his film too. Ashutosh Gowariker is struggling to complete the post- production of Jodha Akbar. And he too is scuttling between Mumbai and Hyderabad. This is because although Ash's dates are with Ramu for Sarkar Raaj, she is simultaneously dubbing for Ashutosh's Jodha Akbar, at Ramojirao studio.

So how did Ashutosh manage that? He packed off his team of assistant directors and asked them to follow the actress to wherever she was shooting. And, thus began Bollywood's famous 'adjustment' act. Happily, both Ashutosh and Ramu have worked out a way to work with Ash without really disturbing each other's film. Now, Ashutosh too has packed his bags and left for Ramojirao studios where Aishwarya is shooting for Ramu's Sarkar Raaj.

The industry is certainly getting very accommodating! Although Ash's dates are with Ramu, he apparently does not mind that at all. "Aishwarya is dubbing for Ashutosh when she is not shooting for me," he says matter-of-factly.

Ram Gopal Varma	Ashutosh Gowariker

Since Ashutosh was not available to comment, his wife, Sunita Gowariker confirmed the news, saying, "Yes, Aishwarya Rai is dubbing for Jodha Akbar in Hyderabad."

Says a source, "Ashutosh has been pressed for time and needs to wind up his film soon. He had to begin the dubbing of Jodha Akbar at the earliest but Aishwarya Rai was busy shooting in Hyderabad for Ram Gopal Varma's film. Hence he had to follow her to Hyderabad to get his dubbing done."

While Ash dubs for Jodha… in Hyderabad, Hrithik, who is in Mumbai, will start the dubbing soon after Ashutosh and his team return from Hyderabad.