Aishwarya Learns Classical Singing

Aishwarya Rai is in Peru giving all she’s got to her part as Rajnikant’s love interest in Shankar’s Tamil film, Robot. After that, Ash will return to the country and get busy with Mani Ratnam’s next film, Raavan. The film is a sensuous contemporary Hindi take on the Ramayana, in which Aishwarya will be playing a classical singer for the first time in her career. And there will be no half-measures for Aishwarya.

A source says, “Aishwarya will be learning classical singing for this role. Ideally, she’d like to sing all her songs in Raavan, herself. She’s a very good singer in real life. But not good enough to sing classical songs on screen with aplomb. So, like Shabana Azmi in Morning Raga Aishwarya intends to take lessons in how to look convincing as a singer. She’ll be regularly taking lessons in classical singing from a guru.”

“She wants to make sure she doesn’t goof up in the scenes in which she’ll be singing on screen,” adds the source. Not just that, since Aishwarya’s mother-in-law Jaya Bachchan had played a singer in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Abhimaan, Aishwarya also plans to watch the film to get it right. Source