June 3, 2008 8:41:25 PM IST Bollywood Trade News Network

Lot of speculations has been hovering around with regards to Vidhu Vinod Chopra's TALISMAAN. From the time he announced the film, media has been maintaining that Vidhu has planned to cast Bachchans in it. Infact a section of media even carried news saying Big B has been pushing hard to include bahu Ash in the project.

To put an end to this ongoing issue a spokesperson from Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films has finally come forward and denied all the speculations regarding any argument between Mr. Vinod Chopra and Mr. Amitabh Bachchan regarding the casting of Ms Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in their new venture TALISMAAN, as reported by a website this morning.

He also further added that ''Ms Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was never approached for the film and neither have the Bachchans approached us on her behalf.

TALISMAAN is inspired by the novel Chandrakanta and will be directed by Ad filmmaker Ram Madhvani. The cast of the film is yet to be finalized. It will be announced at an appropriate time.

So we request everyone to ignore the baseless rumors and speculations.''