Shankar tried to cast former Miss World and the happening Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai to act opposite Rajinikanth for his 'Sivaji'. The actress could not take up the the offer since she was busy with her projects in Hollywood and Bollywood. However director Manirathinam has got her nod to play in his next movie titled Guru which would be made in Hindi.

Interestingly, Abhishek Bachchan, son of Big B is playing the hero. He had acted in Yuva, the Hindi version of Ayudha Ezhuthu.

Abhishek and Aishwarya were earlier paired in Kuch Naa Kaho and rumors are doing the rounds in Bollywood that both have developed an affair between them.

As usual, Manirathinam will have A R Rehman scoring the music for the movie, Rajeev menon, who worked as cinematographer in his Bombay, almost a decade ago is back to work with him now. He will crank the camera for Guru.

Buzz is that quite typical to Dil Se, which was dubbed in Tamil and released as Uyire, Guru will have a Tamil release too. Expected for a release this year-end is Guru.