Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who recently celebrated her second marriage anniversary in Europe, took some time off and airdashed from Hyderabad to Chennai to visit Mani Ratnam, who was hospitalised. Our source said, "Ash was shooting with Rajnikant for Robot in Hyderabad when she heard about Mani's hospitalisation. The actress took a day off from her shoot to visit the director in the hospital. Ash considers Mani to be family and he too thinks of her that way. In fact, Mani is the first director Ash worked with and the two have bonded over a period of time. Their bond grew after she became the Bachchan bahu. Interestingly, Raavana is Abhishek and Aishwarya's third film with Mani, the earlier ones being Guru, where they were a pair; and Yuva with Abhishek and Iruvar with Aishwarya individually.
Our source added, "Ash was with Mani for the entire day at the hospital. The two spent some quality time together. She took a late night flight back to Hyderabad as she had an early shoot of Robot the next day. Was Mani's illness the couple's excuse to spend exclusive time together? Our source shot back, "There are these stories doing the rounds that Mani's hospitalisation was an excuse for Abhi and Ash to take off on a holiday.But considering their closeness to Mani Ratnam, they cannot even think of doing that.
In fact, it was Mani who suggested they take a break to celebrate their anniversary considering they hadn't got a chance to be together in the past two years.Though Ash remained unavailable for comment, her official spokesperson confirmed the story and said, "Yes it is true that Ash flew down to Chennai to meet Mani."
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