Can Aishwarya Rai Break the Bollywood Baby Barrier?

When Amitabh Bachchan updated his Twitter status last week to tell the world about his daughter-in-law’s pregnancy, he could not have thought the news would get any reaction apart from positive ones. But it seems that some in the film industry weren’t so happy.

A report in the Hindustan Times on Wednesday said that director Madhur Bhandarkar, who had cast the newly pregnant Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the leading role in a movie called “Heroine,” appeared to be rather depressed about the announcement.

“Madhur has just locked himself up in the room and refuses to talk,” unnamed sources told the newspaper, adding that the director was putting the film on hold out of concerns she would look “unglamorous” as shooting progressed.

India Real Time couldn’t reach Mr. Bhandarkar or Mrs. Rai Bachchan, who is expecting her first child with husband Abhishek Bachchan, also a Bollywood star, to confirm this version of events.  The movie distributor backing the film said on Wednesday that the decision to halt production was “mutual.”