Top calendar girl Aishwarya Rai looks smoking hot

Aishwarya Rai looks breathtaking in pictures released by celebrity photographer Dabboo Ratnani, in the first look of his 2012 calendar.

Interestingly, these photographs were to be featured in Madhur Bhandarkar's dream project ‘Heroine’.

Dabboo reveals that he shot with Aishwarya and the images from the shoot was to be featured in the movie (Heroine), much like the one he did with Priyanka Chopra for 'Fashion'.

Everyone remember how Madhur Bhandarkar ousted Aishwarya from the project after her pregnancy announcement and then she had served a legal notice disallowing Madhur from using any of her materials for the promotion of the movie.

Aishwarya Rai, though happily obliged to Dabboo's request and allowed him to use the pictures as long as he did not use them in any association with the film.

Besides Aishwarya, this year’s calendar features a host of Bollywood stars including, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidya Balan, Ajay Devgan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Bipasha Basu.

The biggest names of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Bipasha Basu and Hrithik Roshan were spotted at Dabboo Ratnani’s 2012 Calendar launch, reports India Today.