Representing Bollywood at the biggest event in world cinema, Cannes, is none other than Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. This is the fourth time the actress is attending the film festival.
Eversince Devdas was screened there in 2002, Aishwarya Rai has been almost a regular at Cannes.
Her role in the film won her international recognition and the next year, she attended the film festival as a member of the jury.
“The designers are so excited and so generous and so creative and they come up with so many ideas that you actually get spoiled for choice. It gets very, very difficult to be able to zero in and decide on which one to wear,” says Aishwarya.
Aishwarya Rai at Endhiran Wrap Up Party. Aishwarya Rai in red gown cover herself at the wrap up celebration of the upcoming movie Endhiran aka Robot. Director of the movie Shankar has officially announced on his blog that the entire shoot of Sun Pictures magnum opus Endhiran was over on July 7 at Sun Studios. This is one the most awaited movies in last two year as Aishwarya Rai and Rajnikanth will be seen together for the first time.
Bollywood actress and former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai is the featured face on the cover page of magazine Hello! India for the month of April 2010. Here are a few scans on the magazine.
Aishwarya Rai is one of Bollywood's pre-eminent leading ladies. She simply known as Ash and she was born on 1st Nov 1973 in Manglore, Karnatka, India.
Aishwarya Rai born in a traditional Indian family in the south of Mangalore Her father Krishnaraj Rai is a marine engineer and her mother Vrinda Rai is a teacher.
Aishwarya speaks English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and French.
When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay (present Mumbai) permanatly. Aishwarya has spent most of her life in Mumbai. She did her matriculation from Arya Vidya Mandir and later joined Jai Hind College. She did her twelfth standard from Ruparel College. Having scored well in her exams, she landed in the Rachana Institute.
Ash, prior to her life as a model and her debut into the Bollywood, was a first class pupil of architecture while in college and was so unhappy to leave it when forced to oblige to the demands for her participation in Miss Word competition which she strode ahead to win in the end and so the pride for India.
After her crowning as the most beautiful woman on the planet, she has soared height after height. Films came as a natural choice for this model turned actress and she has done over a score of Hindi Films till date quite a number of them being blockbusters.
Besides Bollywood films, Aishwarya has starred in a few south Indian movies and Hollywood movies too.
On the personal front Aishwarya’s life has been eclipsed by an unhappy affair with the ill-tempered Salman Khan. With all kinds of negative rumours rife about them, she moved out of the relationship in 2001. Both of them have since declared since that they don’t have anything to do with each other.
For 2004, Ash is set to star in "Chaos" opposite Meryl Streep for French Director Coline Serreau, "Singularity" opposite Brendan Fraser for director Roland Joffe and "I Know a Place" for Director/Writer Barton Randall and will end the year with "Mistress of Spices" once again with Director Gurinder Chadha.
In 2003 Aishwarya became the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Ash is also the latest member of the elite L'Oreal Dream Team, joining beauties Catherine Deneuve & Andie MacDowell as their international ambassador. She graced the covers of India Today and the prestigious TIME Magazine. Ash was listed on Rolling Stone Magazine's annual "Hot List".
Aishwarya Rai is married Abhishek Bachchan who is son of Big B Amitabh Bachchan. Before her marriage she was dating with Bollywood actors Vivek Obrai and Salman Khan.
