Things are not what they were between actor Madhavan and his mentor Mani Ratnam. The one time favourite of Ratnam, now finds himself replaced in the director's favor by none other than Abhishek Bachchan. In his latest film, which is being made in Hindi and Tamil, he does not have any role for Madhavan.

Madhavan owes his career in the South to the ace director. The two of them have notched many successes in Tamil. But it seems that during the making of Yuva, Ratnam took a great liking to Abhishek and that showed in his role in the film. Subsequently, Ratnam made Guru and Abhishek was given the lead role while Madhavan was reduced to playing second fiddle and how. Now that Ratnam is making his next feature in Hindi, which is apparently based on the Ramayana, he has again opted for the Abhishek Aishwarya pair, as he did in Guru. Govinda finds a role in the film and so does southern star Vikram. The Tamil version too does not have any role for Madhavan. In fact, Vikram who is playing the role of Ravan in the Hindi version will be playing the role of Ram, with Ash as his Sita in the Tamil version. But for now, in the Hindi version, we have Abhi Ash as Ram and Sita. And poor Madhavan is out in the cold.