“Yes, it’s close to Rs 4 crore. And she’s very amused when she reads that she is the highest paid actress in Bollywood. With three hits in a row, Guru, Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa Akbar, Ash’s equity as a Rai and a Bachchan have gone through the roof,” said a source close to Aishwarya.

“It is no surprise that Aishwarya is getting Rs 40 million. It’s still chicken feed compared with what Rajnikant carries home. He takes home Rs 15 crore plus fifty percent of his film’s profits. But still he cannot make a film commercially viable outside the Tamil belt on his own. The dubbed Hindi version of Chandramukhi came and went.
And Rajni’s biggest hit Shivaji - The Boss is in no hurry to be released in Hindi. With Ash in Robot it looks like an attractive non-regional film,” said a source close to the project.