Aishwarya Rai - Facts about her - Know your Star - Aishwarya Rai photos, imagesAishwarya Rai Bachchan is one of the most bankable female actors in Bollywood. She is not in the Hall of Fame for being the bahu of India's most celebrated superstar. Nor for being wife to one of Bollywood's most ambitious superstar aspirants. The Bachchan canopy just adds to the allure of this ethereal beauty, who has won for herself the tag of being India's first international superstar.
Here is a pictorial ode to the one and only Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Know Your Star: Aishwarya Rai
- Aishwarya made her screen debut in a commercial for Camelin pencils when she was only Before entering the world of glitz and glamour, Aishwarya was an architecture student.
- Aishwarya Rai made her Bollywood debut in 'Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya'.
- Must see movies of Aishwarya Rai: 'Sarkar Raj', 'Jodhaa Akbar', 'Provoked', 'Guru', 'Dhoom 2', 'Devdas', 'Mohabbatein', 'Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai', 'Josh', 'Taal' and 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam'.
- Upcoming movies of Aishwarya Rai: 'Raavan', 'Enthiran', 'Raaste', 'Action Replay', 'Guzaarish' and 'Rani Laxmibai'.
- Aishwarya Rai was offered Rani Mukherjee's role in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'.
- Aishwarya Rai has previously dated Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi.
- Aishwarya won the Miss World title in 1994.
- Time Magazine had named Aishwarya on their list of "100 Most Influential People in the World Today".
- Aishwarya was the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2003.
- Aishwarya was the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2003.
- Aishwarya on being sexy: "Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset."
- Aishwarya is the first Bollywood actress to be immortalised in wax at the world famous Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is the highest paid actress in India.
- Statistics has it that Aishwarya receives at least two movie offers a day!
- Aishwarya Rai married Abhishek Bachchan in 2007. Their marriage was heralded as "Wedding of the Decade".
- Aishwarya appeared in the world's most watched TV show, 'Oprah Winfrey Show', in 2005.
- In 2010, Aishwarya Rai has four films lined up for release - two southern projects ' 'Raavanan' and 'Endhiran' as well as 'Action Replay' and 'Guzaarish', collectively costing over Rs.300 crore (Rs.3 billion).
- Ash on her role in Raavan: "This was an extremely challenging role for me. To shoot it in Hindi and Tamil at the same time was quite a task. But the experience was so wonderful that if Mani sir asks me, I am ready to do it all over again."
- Says Ash, "Ragini of 'Raavan' is a strong woman and very relatable to the modern Indian woman. She speaks her mind."
- Aishwarya on shooting 'Raavan': "We kept discovering fantastic locations and got to see so many places. We used to trek every morning to be on the sets. I was with no make-up, no fancy clothes and all drenched in rain with mud all over."
- Aishwarya on Abhishek: "He is very real, very rooted and very human - which I absolutely relate to. His values are evident for everybody to see. We have known each other for so many years."
- Hema Malini says Aishwarya Rai is the only one who deserves the 'dreamgirl' tag among all the new age actresses.
- In Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Guzaarish', Aishwarya will play a married nurse who falls in love with a paraplegic patient essayed by Hrithik.
