Aishwarya Rai in Robot?

It looks like Aishwarya Rai is the front runner to play heroine to Rajinikanth( superstar likes to be spelled in this way) in Shankar directed Robot! Last week Shankar who had worked with her in his Jeans, had met her in Mumbai and narrated the one-line story to her. Aishwarya heard the story but has not green signaled the project as her career in Bollywood is at a crucial juncture with her Hrithik Roshan film Jodhaa Akbar due for release on February 15. The box-office success of the film will determine her future moves in Bollywood, as she has only Ram Gopal Varma's "Sarkar-2" and two Hollywood projects "Pink Panther-2" and Ben Kingsley's "Taj Mahal" coming up for release. Shanker has never taken a pure south Indian actress in any of his films, as he thinks the skin tone of his heroine is important. And as far as Rajinikanth is concerned from Padayappa days he has not hidden his desire to act with the Ulaga Azhagi! Let us hope that Ash obliges these men, so that they will provide us with some great entertainment by the year 2010 with Robot.