Ash to star in Gurinder Chadhha's Pride and Prejudice

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">KOLKATA: Bollywood''s reigning queen Aishwarya Rai is all set for a debut in international cinema after signing for <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Bend It Like Beckham</span> fame Gurinder Chaddha''s next venture <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Pride and Prejudice</span>, based on Jane Austen''s evergreen classic.<br />"I have signed up with Gurinder Chaddha for the film. The shoot is scheduled to start in July, next year," Rai said at a press conference here in connection with her new film <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dil Ka Rishta.</span><br />To a question, the former Miss World said that she had also received offers from Hollywood filmmakers and had read several scripts, but refused to give details, saying those would be given at a later date by her agents William Morris.<br />Scheduled to make her debut in Bengali films with <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Chokher Bali,</span> a Rabindranath Tagore classic currently being shot by Rituparno Ghosh, she said acting in films in English or any other language held no special significance. "Be it Bollywood, Hollywood or Tollywood, it is just another film for me."<br />Ascribing her choice of roles to the dictations of ''an inner voice,'' Rai said she also considered the subject of the film, its script or its director in making decisions and not by ''cliched'' concepts of her screen-time.<br />Stating that <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dil Ka Rishta,</span> had been scripted by her mother Vrinda Rai and brother Aditya Rai, she described the film as her ''home baby'' and said she was ''protective'' about the film and wanted the media to be ''gentle'' on it. </div> </div>