Bipasha Basu was first picked up to play Mandodari, Ravana’s wife in the film Raavana, but later she was dropped. It was rumored that Aishwarya Rai was behind her unceremonious exist from the film.
Now it is being cleared that it was due to heavy star cast of the film that she was not selected to play the character. There film already had Aishwarya Rai as Sita, South superstar Vikram as Ram, Abhishek Bachhan as Raavan, National Award winner Priya Mani as Shoorpankha and Govinda as Hanuman. However, the rumors in newspapers and magazine continued that Ash was behind existing of Bipasha. But such gossips may not be true as Bipasha is already cast against Abhishek in Dum Maro Dum and they get along nicely. It looks like the rumors are baseless. '
