Imagine a show hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and featuring the star cast of ACTION REPLAYY. You'd expect Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to be a part of it, right? But Ash, who teams up with Akshay in ACTION REPLAYY, was absent for the KAUN BANEGA CROREPATI - ACTION REPLAYY episode. The star participants on K.B.C. included Akshay, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rannvijay, Vipul Shah with wife Shefali and Neha Dhupia. So why not Ash?

Rumours doing the rounds of the industry indicate that Ash didn't want to be a part of the episode because the proceeds would be donated to a particular charitable trust. But Vipul Shah denies it, "It has been decided by the family [Bachchans] that neither Abhishek nor Ash would participate in K.B.C. Reason being people would assume that the presence of Bachchan Sr. as the host prompted them to win the booty. That's why Ash didn't participate for that particular episode." Valid point!