Racing against time

The film-maker agrees that his stars have a genuine problem, but he is not ready to release the movie without that number. To bail Shah out, Aishwarya has suggested that he should fly down with his unit to London.

She would fly from Cannes to London and shoot the song with Akshay in night shifts when the actor wouldn’t be shooting for Patiala House. “It is very, very generous and considerate of Aishwarya to suggest that she would join me from Cannes, that I come to London and shoot the song with her and Akshay. She is really working very hard. Both Akshay and she have a genuine date problem,” said Shah.

Akshay is in London for 90 days to shoot for Nikhil Advani’s Patiala House. But Shah is still in two minds about whether to take up his leading lady’s kind offer. “I need four days to shoot my song. I don’t know if I can impose on director Nikhil Advani’s time and money like this.

Let’s see. In any case, I’ve now postponed the release of Action Replay from July to September.” Since the other big Aishwarya starrer Raavan releases in June, Shah thought it wise to re-position his film on a later date.