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Aishwarya Rai (Kannada: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ, Hindi: ऐश्वर्या राय; born in November 1 1973; Ash for fans and media) is an actress from India. She is presently think of one of a large list inside Bollywood and is also becoming called the Hollywood star. Early Life & Start

Aishwarya was natural around Mangalore to Krishnaraj and Vrinda Rai, in the South Indian state of Karnataka. She occurs as Miss World beauty contest winner, a office model, & an actress around Bollywood and Hollywood films.

Rai has appeared as a model inside numbers of Indian fashion magazines, including a Indian Vogue; she is currently featured around international ads for L'Oréal Paris, De Beers Diamonds, and Coca-Cola.

She was number 1-runner higher in the 1994 Miss India Contest; she misused to Sushmita Sen. Later on, Ms. Rai won a Miss World title, while rival Sushmita Sen won a Miss Universe title.

Bollywood Breakthrough

On the crest of the following publicity, she became an actress, appearing around Mani Rathnam's Iruvar inside (1997). Her earliest films did non succeed at a pack professional; critics said that she couldn't work, & but posed, when whenever she were however modeling. Her foremost large profits was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Late successes include Taal and Devdas. Rai has as well acted inside films for the Tamil-speaking regional film industry, like Jeans, Kandukondain Kandukondain, and for the Bengali film industry, in Chokher Bali.

International Stardom
Devdas, in which Aishwarythe joined Bollywood adept Shahrukh Khan & Madhuri Dixit, was a lavishly-produced mega-hit. a film attracted overseas notice too; it was a 1st-ever Bollywood picture to receive a favorite screening at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ms. Rai so became the globe-wide star like than merely the Bollywood heroine. Around 2003, Rai was a member of a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Within 2004, she was chosen as one of ''TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World." Rai was the subject of a 60 Minutes'' profile on January 2, 2005; the profile known as her "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." The year late she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and in April 25, 2005, she was featured on Oprah's "Women Across the Globe" segment. The waxwork of Rai get on display inside London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum.

Gossip columns experienced oft buzzed sustaining news that Rai was existence considered for high-profile Hollywood productions, however a job offers never materialized. So British director Gurinder Chadha hired Aishwarya to play the heroine within Bride and Prejudice, a Hollywood-funded however Bollywood-ized version of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice. Rai is at present said to become signed for a second Hollywood flick, Rolland Joffe's task Singularity. She might play paired Brendan Fraser. She is in the cast for The Last Legion co-starring Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley. She is likewise said to exist as slated for the Bollywood film to become known as Provoked, to be directed by Jas Mundhra.

Personal Life

Earliest inside her career, Aishwarythe was exposed around a currently-infamous relationship by owning heavyweight star Salman Khan, which was known for its turbulence. It one of these days led to her ejection from either the Shah Rukh Khan film when Salman's many & raucous visits began disrupting motion-picture photography & Shah Rukh's household safety.

Since so she has been romanticaly linked to rising star Vivek Oberoi and film dynasty scion Abhishek Bachchan (the previous groom-to-be of Karisma Kapoor)

Filmography

Aishwarya's films come inside Hindi, except where noted beneath.

1997 : Iruvar by Mani Ratnam (in Tamil) (Telugu title: Iddaru) 1997 : Aur Pyar Ho Gaya by Rahul Rawail 1998 : Jeans by S. Shankar (in Tamil) 1999 : Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Filmfare Best Actress Award) 1999 : Aa Ab Laut Chalein by Rishi Kapoor 1999 : Taal by Subhash Ghai 2000 : Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai by Satish Kaushik 2000 : Mohabbatein by Aditya Chopra (cameo) 2000 : Dhai Akshar Prem Ke by Raj Kanwa 2000 : Josh by Mansoor Khan 2000 : Kandukondain Kandukondain by Rajiv Menon (in Tamil) 2000 : Sanam Tere Hain Hum by Jayant Paranji (special appearance) 2001 : Albela by Deepak Sareen 2002 : Devdas by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Filmfare Best Actress Award) 2002 : Hum Kisise Kum Nahin by David Dhawan 2002 : Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam by K.S. Adiyaman (special appearance) 2002 : 23rd March 1931 : Shaheed by Guddu Dhanoa 2002 : Shakti (movie) by Krishna Vamshi (special appearance) 2003 : Kuch Na Kaho by Rohan Sippy 2002 : Nee Kidappen Njan Adippen: The Power by Krishna Vamshi 2003 : Dil Ka Rishta by Naresh Malhotra 2003 : Chokher Bali by Rituparno Ghosh (in Bengali) 2003 : Khakee by Rajkumar Santoshi 2004 : Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na by Samir Karnik 2004 : Bride and Prejudice by Gurinder Chadha (in English) 2004 : Raincoat by Rituparno Ghosh 2005 : Shabd by Leena Yadav 2005 : Bunty Aur Babli by Shaad Ali (special appearance) 2005 : The Heart of India by Ganapathy Bharat (in English) 2005 : Mistress of Spices by Paul Mayeda Berges (in English) 2006 : Provoked by Jagmohan Mundhra (in English) (filming) 2006 : Dhoom 2 by Sanjay Gadhvi (filming) 2006 : Saamna by Rajkumar Santoshi (filming) 2006 : Singularity by Roland Joffé (in English) 2006 : The Last Legion by Doug Lefler (in English) 2006: "Chaos" by Coline Serreau (in English)

The Most Attractive Woman of 2003 - Aishwarya Rai
She has been voted the most attractive woman of 2003 by Hello magazine readers.

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