Ayesha Takia

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Nagesh Kukunoor hopes his next puts him back on track

Nagesh Kukunoor’s last two projects John Abraham starrer Aashayein and 8×10 Tasveer with Akshay Kumar proved to be duds. Yeh Hausla, which features Sameera Reddy in a deglam avatar, has yet to see light of day.

Woman-centric

Now the director hopes that his Ayesha Takia-Rannvijay-starrer Mod will put him back on track. He has wrapped up the project in a start-to-finish schedule.

Nagesh Kukunoor with Elahe Hiptoola, Ayesha Takia, Rannvijay with the rest of the cast and crew at the wrap up bash of Mod

The cast and crew had a wrap-up bash recently. With the film, the director returns to a woman-centric subject with his rakhi sister.

Cricket break

Says a source, “The film was shot in Ooty on a 52-day schedule. The cast and crew were put up in different hotels but made it a point to have their meals together in one hotel. They often played cricket matches in the spare time a remnant of his Iqbal days.”

Says Rannvijay who is looking forward to Mod, his next release after Action Replayy. “It is a small-town story and how things affect the characters that Ayesha and I essay.

Apart from Ooty, we also shot in Coonoor.”

He adds, “At the moment, the project is in post-production and a release date has yet to be ascertained.”
The film’s cast also includes Gulfam Khan, Usha Bachani and v.

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Sneha who has acted with all the leading performers of the industry inclusive of Nagarjuna, Balakrishna, Tarun hasn’t been garnering good opportunities in the recent times. Stereotypical roles modelled with glamour has been her forte and repeated roles such as that didnt help her cause to any avail. She has now settled for motherly roles in Bollywood when her career has literally faded in the southern industry. She was touted to be the next Soundarya but destiny had some other ideas.

She has accepted an offer to play a wife alongside Naseeruddin Shah in a Hindi film titled ‘Made Dad’. She would play mother to Ayesha Takia in the cited film. In fact her supposed debut in Bollywood was destined to happen long back with Rajkumar Santoshi’s Ramayan but the role went on to Kajol. The film though was shelved later due to budget constraints.

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The Azmi household has been buzzing with activity ever since the family started receiving threatening and extortion calls from an unidentified person.

Over the last 4-5 days, actress Ayesha Takia’s husband, Farhan Azmi has been frequenting the police station to lodge the complain and follow up with the developments.

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Police speculate that the death threat calls to Ayesha Takia’s family could be a ploy of either a gangster or prankster to extort quick money.

Actress Ayesha Takia’s family have been harassed by an unidentified person, who has been calling and threatening the family over the past three days.

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Ayesha Takia is all set to prove the people who thought her acting career was over, wrong. Preferring not to talk too much about her upcoming films, the actress has kept away from the limelight. However, she is busy shooting for a Nagesh Kukunoor film and a project by Revathi.

Ayesha is currently wrapping up the shoot for Nagesh’s next film, titled Modh, opposite Ranvijay Singh. Sources say that Nagesh has been shooting the film in Ooty and the schedule should be completed by the end of the month.

In the meantime, Ayesha is also working on Revathi’s Aap Ke Liye Hum. “I never said I am quitting Bollywood so the thought of not working after marriage never arose. I will be doing one or two films a year,” Ayesha says.

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Actress Ayesha Takia says that when it comes to matters of the heart, she is very traditional. And when it comes to marriage, she is even more traditional in her thoughts.

“I am a typical girl. I like to be wooed with flowers. I like candle-light dinners and everything that you read in those mushy novels. I would like to be wooed the traditional way,” she admits.

So does this mean that her husband Farhan also wooed her traditional way? “Well, I would never propose marriage to anybody. I would always like to be proposed to. It’s been almost six years since I’ve known Farhan now and I think we have graduated to the next level where we know that we are there for each other. So it’s like, ‘Okay, what’s next now?’” she says.

The “what’s next” part was of course sharing Farhan’s professional space as Ayesha forayed into business. “It was a very natural transition for me and it was never meant to be a very hard-thought decision. We used to talk a lot and we were very aware of the differences between us when it comes to food habits — like he is a hard-core coffee drinker and I am very much a chai person. But instead we are now cashing on the difference (by opening a cafe chain). When you share each other’s personal space, you somehow start sharing the professional space also because your work life shapes the person inside you,” says the actress.

But isn’t she afraid of stories that couples grow tired of each other if they are with each other 24×7? “Well, I don’t know about that because we don’t sit in office together. We ensure that we do different things and the way we have sorted our functions out, we get to meet only in the night after we get out of home in the morning. And if you are asking about boredom, no, it has not yet set in — I feel like I got married just a few months back,” Ayesha concludes.

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Shilpa Shetty was first choice for Nagesh Kukunoor’s next. Here’s how the film went to his rakhi sister Ayesha Takia

While it is known that Nagesh Kukunoor’s untitled next will feature Ayesha Takia, what isn’t as known is that the film was offered to Shilpa Shetty and that she was also supposed to co-produce the film.

HiTLIST was the first to report last January that Shilpa Shetty had signed Kukunoor on.

The actress had inked a deal with the director to helm a film for her production house S2 Global Productions. He was also one of the few B-Town folk who attended Shilpa’s wedding reception.

During the course of pre production, the two had a fallout over creative differences and eventually parted ways.

A source from the industry reveals, “The problem started when Shilpa insisted on having a big actor cast opposite her, while Nagesh wanted a lesser known face for the role.

Also it was a co-production, but the actress kept promoting herself as the sole producer, and credited Kukunoor as a director.

This didn’t go down well Nagesh who then decided to end the deal and approached another producer and also roped in his favourite actress, his rakhi sister Ayesha to play the lead role instead.”

The film being shot in Ooty will be Takia’s first since taking a B-Town breather following her marriage to restaurateur Farhan Azmi.

While the actress and the director remained unavailable for comment, Shilpa’s spokesperson says, “This is not true at all.

The project didn’t work out because of commercial viability. Hence, we dropped it and parted amicably.”

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Ayesha Takia who has been lying low post her marriage has signed Nakesh Kukunoor’s film where she will be seen in a no makeup avatar.

You have seen her in a deglam look in Nagesh Kukunoor’s critically acclaimed ‘Dor’. Ayesha Takia will once again be seen sans any makeup in Nagesh Kukunoor’s next film. Ayesha has signed Nagesh Kukunoor’s next film.

Ayesha who was in talks with Nagesh since past few months has finally signed the film. “I am going to shoot for Nagesh Kukunoor’s film next month,” confirms Ayesha without giving much detail about the film.

Speaking about her look in the as yet untitled film, she informs that she will be seen in deglam avatar. She is going back to her black hair to get the perfect natural look. “There’s going to be a no makeup this time too. I have to get my hair back to black. It might be a nice change in color and I am looking forward to it,” said Ayesha who is excited to work again with Nagesh after Dor and 8 x 10 Tasveer .

This is going to be Ayesha’s third film with Nagesh. Nagesh’s Dor gave her recognition as an actress. Unfortunately 8 x 10 Tasveer couldn’t create the same magic on box office. Let’s see how his next film fares for Ayesha!

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Post marriage, this beautiful lady was just seen with Salman Khan in WANTED. Ayesha’s fans are waiting to see her sizzle up the screen once again. But she is busy spending some quality time with her husband Farhan Azmi.

During this break, Ayesha had colored her hair to golden brown and was seen flaunting her locks wherever she could. But now this actress will have to change her hair color back to black. This order has been given by director Nagesh Kukunoor, as Ayesha has signed his next movie.

This will be Ayesha’s first movie after WANTED, that can also be considered as her comeback because she has been away from films since her marriage. She is super excited to work with her favorite filmmaker and has no qualms in changing her hair color for his movie.

Ayesha received tons of compliments for her brown hair and she is eagerly waiting to see how people respond when she changes the hue to black again. Hope the comments Ayesha would receive make her happy!

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Another one who is feeling wanted at the moment is Ayesha Takia. After she settled down into wedded bliss with hubby Farhan Azmi, she didn’t want the film industry to think she has quit acting. So she could forever be heard stressing that she was open to substantial film offers. Now isn’t that a bit ambitious considering such offers were few and far between even when she was at the best of her career. Clearly dearth of offers must have made Ayesha feel a bit unwanted. But then out of the blue I hear, Ayesha came across a script that completely blew her away.
A writer had written the actress-oriented film only keeping Ayesha in mind as she and I were told. And it was exactly the kind of script Ayesha saw herself doing at this point in time. The only hitch was that the writer was finding it difficult to find producers to back the project. That’s when her hubby Farhan stepped in, and from what I was told, he spoke to a few friends who were considering stepping into movie business. That was all the push that was needed and the film is ready to roll with Ayesha back in front of the arc lights.