Aishwarya has a super-busy shoot schedule ahead

Aishwarya Rai sure has a crowded year ahead, having signed movies with filmmakers Vishal Bhardwaj, Rituparno Ghosh, Abhinay Deo and Vipul Shah. And the actress says each of these films is equally challenging and "special" to her. The former Miss World has something unique to say about each movie and filmmaker. "Ritu-da and I have agreed to work together again after ’Chokher Bali’ and ’Raincoat’ in Bengali and Hindi respectively. Our next film together is a bilingual. And very challenging," said Aishwarya. "As for Abhinay Deo’s film it’s got me and Abhishek (Bachchan) in it. But it covers a territory very different from what audiences have seen in ’Guru’, ’Dhoom 2’ and ’Sarkar Raj’. Abhinay’s film is also very different from Mani Ratnam’s ’Raavan’. It’s a special challenge to work with my husband because we’ve to make sure we don’t repeat ourselves," the Bachchan daughter-in-law added.