Aishwairya elated with South films

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is elated over bagging the main leads in two mega south Indian projects - Mani Ratnam's Ravan and Shankar's Endhiran. She is finally working with Mani Ratnam after a long gap of 10 years. "Shankar had approached me previously to work with him, but it never materialized. Finally, everything landed in place and here we are working together after 10 years," said Aishwarya on the sets of Ravan.



Tamil superstar Rajinikant, who is playing the male lead in Endhiran, was also very keen to work with Aishwarya and had tried to sign her for his earlier ventures - Padaiyappa and Chandramukhi, but the actress could not spare the dates.

Speaking about Ratnam's Ravan, in which she once again teams up with her husband Abhishek Bachchan and is elated over working with Mani as she considers him a perfect film-maker, Ash said following. While shooting for Ravan in the jungles of Kerala, the entire cast and crew had a scary experience when an elephant ran amok and killed 51-year-old mahout, Andavan.The actors including Abhishek, Aishwarya, Vikram, Prabhu and Munna had to take shelter in a guest house.

After 12 hours of tension and waiting, the crew returned to their hotel. Now the cast and crew of Ravan have moved to Ooty where the remaining portions of the film will be shot.