Abhishek Bachchan has quite a reputation of being a prankster. And he doesn’t spare Aishwarya Rai too.

It is no secret that Abhishek and Aishwarya are very fond of each other. So fond that Abhi has had special names for Ash ever since the “friendship” between the two started getting stronger.

For a long time Abhi has been fondly calling Ash “number nine”. He calls her so because she was voted as the ninth most beautiful woman in the world by Harpers and Queen last year.

And recently, while working together in JP Dutta’s Umrao Jaan, Abhi gave another fond name to Ash: ‘Chhamiya’ (a vernacular for ‘sweetheart’).

Sources also say that when Ash got her hair coloured blonde during the shooting of Dhoom 2, Abhi began calling her Sunehri, which is also Ash’s name in the film.

Meanwhile, there has been no announcement of their marriage. Ash has said in interviews that there is nothing to announce yet and they want to focus on their respective careers.