After Aladdin, Big B will be seen in yet another fantasy film “Talismaan”. The film will go on the floors by the end of 2009 and the shooting will take place in Bhutan jungles.

We spoke to our source from the production house,

Last year it was dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit-Nene who received the prestigious award Padma Shri from the President of India and now this time around its going to be Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who would be honoured with this award.

Amitabh Bachchan speaks on this eve and feels proud of her bahu Aishwarya

“I would rush to be in time for the President’s Award Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, where Aishwarya will be honoured with the Padma Shri. It’s a moment of great pride for all of us.”

Its rare to know that even Shahenshah of Bollywood loves cricket as this legendary actor was watching India vs New Zealand match at his Prateeksha house on Sunday and was not happy when Rahul Dravid was given out.

Big B’s comments on the Rahul Dravid,

“Rahul Dravid was clearly not out. The ball went off his leg pad for that umpire gave wrongly decided catch. His magnificent innings, shaping up for the century gone to naught, gone to history and who knows how it will effect the result of the game.

That's India vs New Zealand 2nd Test at Napier on the 4th day.”

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Chenab Gandhi', based on the life of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, will go on floors in May.

A few weeks back, there was news that Hurman Baweja was replaced by John Abraham in this period film. The reason being cited was that John was too busy working on 'Hook Ya Crook' to spare time for 'Chenab Gandhi, which has superstar Amitabh Bachchan playing the lead role.

Director Vivek Sharma whose debut film Bhootnath starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan in a special role went on to win a lot of accolades at the box office. Now he is once again planning to have the superstars in his next film. The director is planning to launch his own production house Film Zone Productions very soon. The director has already zeroed down on two projects and plans to start the film by the year end.

Being revered has always been a plus point for Aamir Khan. Now that reverence has helped him to get lucky with Big B too! He recently became the only one who’s allowed to have a sneak peek of megastar Amitabh Bachchan's startling new look in his forthcoming film ‘Paa’, but of course under the secrecy vow.

The buzz is that Aamir paid a surprise visit last week to the Big B at Film City here while he was shooting for R. Balakrishnan's ‘Paa’ that also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan.

Aamir was escorted to Amitabh's make-up van on the set where visitors have not at all been allowed.