Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s next film Action Replay, with Akshay Kumar in the lead, is underway with the film’s director Vipul Shah signing up Oscar winning make up artist Paul Pattison to create a new look for Ash and Akshay in the film.

Despite having signed up the best in the industry, Vipul could not get the actors and the make up artist together, as Ash is busy with Mani Ratnam’s Ravan, Pattison couldn’t make it having committed himself to two projects in Hollywood - Chicane and The Waiting City.

However, things turned out well with Ash taking a short break from Ravan and the director immediately contacted Pattison’s producers in Hollywood to have him released for a few days to work in his project. Sources say that Paul has worked out a new look for both the lead actors in Action Replay.