A R Rahman and Ash hold a special relation and they themselves might not have explored this angle. Rahman has scored music for no less than 6 films in which Aishwarya Rai has acted and this is certainly a record. No heroine in India has the privilege to have acted in so many songs of this great music director. Manisha Koirala comes second with about five films.

Aishwarya Rai has been the favorite of both Mani Rathnam and Shankar and so has Rahman been and so the coincidence. Given that both are slowing down and with Rahman concentrating more on his international assignments no other heroine would be able to better Ash’s record. Chances are Ash may better her own record.