Aishwarya Rai Bachchan : Most Beautiful Actress - Biography, Images, Photo Gallery, Wallpaper and Videos

Nicknames: Ash, Aishu and Gullu for the family. She has a 3 year older brother Aditya Rai. She got married to Abhishek Bachchan in Bombay on Thursday April 19, 2007. On November 16, 2011 she had a daughter. Before becoming an actress, she was a student of architecture and model. She speaks many languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, and Marathi, and her mother tongue is Tulu, which is only spoken by two million people.

In 1994 she was elected Miss World. She is seen by many as one of the most beautiful women on earth. That's what Julia Roberts called her: "The most beautiful woman in the world".

With her Miss World title, she was asked for many different Indian films. From the end of the nineties, she became a popular actress in the so-called Bollywood productions. These commercial films, which are produced on-line in Mumbai's studios, have a lot of color, spectacle, dance and music. Aishwarya was able to put herself in the spotlight as an actress and dancer and became widely known in India.

Aishwarya has played in about 30 Indian films when she first played a leading role internationally. Her first major American production was Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical in 2004. With opponent Martin Henderson there is a meeting between the American Hollywood and Indian Bollywood. In addition, she has made several English-language films, such as Mistress of Spices in 2005, Provoked: A true Story (2006), The Last Legion with Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley and Pink Panther 2 with Steve Martin.

In 2002, Aishwarya made an entry into a carriage in Cannes to promote the Devdas movie that premiered there. The following year, she became the first Indian actress to be a member of the Cannes film festival jury.

She is a member of the L'Oréal Dreamteam together with actresses such as Penélope Cruz, Andie MacDowell, Gong Li, Catherine Deneuve and model Doutzen Kroes. She has also been the international face of Longines for years.

Aishwarya was voted one of the 100 most influential people on earth by TIME magazine.

Achievements

In 1994 she won the Miss India, Miss World and Miss Fotogenica contest that same year, passing her reign stage in London, where she worked in fashion and advertising magazines, already as a professional model, highlighting a prestigious campaign for Pepsi and her appearance in Vogue. In 2002, one of her greatest hits, Devdas, is the most ambitious and most successful film in Bollywood history, being a Box Office in India (In the United States and even in the World), deserving even a special screening at the Festival of Cannes, and causing sensation its appearance dressed in a beautiful sari embroidered in yellow and orange tones. The following year she was sworn in this Festival, thus becoming the first Indian actress who achieved it.

In 2003 she won third place in the list of Sexiest Women in Asia, published by the British magazine Eastern Eye. Since this year she is a model of prestigious firms, such as L'Oreal, where she announced mascara and is currently part of the L'Oreal Dream Team as an international ambassador with Catherine Deneuve and Andie McDowell, and one of the stars with her own color in the line of color Riche lipsticks.

In 2000 she was elected the most beautiful woman ever chosen in that beauty contest. It is said that Julia Roberts called her "the most beautiful woman in the world" at the Cannes Film Festival. Her followers gave her the same title in a survey of the magazine "Hello!". It was the subject of a 60-minute broadcast on January 2, 2005, entitled "The most beautiful face in Bollywood", as well as on Oprah Winfrey's show, "The Early Show", and others. She was interviewed by David Letterman, who presented her as "the greatest movie star in the world", among other qualifiers referring to her beauty. Some people have considered her "the Most Beautiful Woman in the Universe".

Early years and career as a model

Rai was born into a Tulu language family, in Mangalore, Karnataka. Her father, Krishnaraj, was an Army biologist, while her mother, Brinda, is a housewife. She has an older brother, Aditya Rai, who is an engineer in the merchant marine. Rai's Dil Ka Rishta film (2003) was co-produced by her brother and co-written by her mother. The family moved to Mumbai, where Rai attended Arya Vidya Mandir High School. Rai did her intermediate education at Jai Hind University for one year, and then joined the DG Ruparel College in Matunga, securing 90 percent on the HSC exams. She trained in classical dance and music for five years during her teens. Her favorite subject was zoology, so she initially considered studying a career in medicine. Then, with plans to become an architect, she enrolled in Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture, but later gave up her education to pursue a career in modeling.

In 1991, Rai won an international model contest (organized by Ford) and was finally presented in the North American edition of Vogue. In 1993, Rai gained great public recognition for her appearance in a Pepsicon commercial with actors Aamir Khan and Mahima Chaudhry. The only line - "Hi, I'm Sanjana," from her dialogue in the commercial made her immediately famous. In 1994, she won second place in the Miss India contest, behind Sushmita Sen, and was crowned Miss India World, also winning five other sub-titles, including "Miss Pasarela", "Miss Milagrosa", "Miss Photogenic", "miss Perfect Teen" and "miss Popular". Rai's duties as the first finalist included representing India in Miss World, which was held that year in Sun City, South Africa. She went on to win the crown, where she also won the "Photogenic Title" and Miss World continental beauty queen - Asia and Oceania. After winning the contest, Rai talked about her dream for peace for this world and her desire to be a peace ambassador during her one-year reign in London. Rai continued to pursue a career as a model until she became an actress.

First works (1997-1998)

Rai made her debut in 1997 in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, Iruvar, a semi-biographical political drama, which features Mohanlal, Prakash Raj, Tabú and Revathi. The film was a critical success and among other awards, it won the Best Film award at the Belgrade International Film Festival Rai presents as Pushpavalli and Kalpana - dual roles. The latter was a fictional portrait of the politician and former actress Jayalalithaa. Due to the weakness of Rai's Tamil speaking skills, her dialogue in the film was dubbed by Tamil actress Rohini. That same year, she was chosen as Ashi, a naive teenager in her first Bollywood movie - Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, a romantic comedy opposite Bobby Deol. Both Iruvar and Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya were commercial failures but critics saw Rai's acting ability in the movies. However, for the latter, she won a screen prize for the debut of the best woman.

In the 1998 big-budget Tamil Romantic drama, Jeans directed by S. Shankar, Rai appeared alongside Prashanth and Nassar. She played Madhumita, a young woman who accompanies her sick grandmother to the United States to seek medical attention. The film was a commercial success, and Rai received praise for her acting and dancing. Unlike Iruvar, Rai has practiced and dubbed her own lines in the film. Jeans was later presented as the official entry of India for the Academy Awards for 1998. Her second role in Bollywood was in 1999 in the Melodrama Aa Ab Laut Chalen, directed by Rishi Kapoor. The film was a critical failure and had a lower than average performance at the box office. On behalf of Pooja Walia, a traditional Indian woman living in the United States, Rai met with negative criticism. Rediff.com published, "Aishwarya Rai, a plastic smile and it never becomes a scene in which it can represent any depth, the only thing it does is cry and smile and look a lot"

Social and humanitarian work

In 1999, Rai participated in a world tour called Magnificent Five, along with Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Akshaye Khanna and Twinkle Khanna. In the same year, she was appointed as Longines Ambassador of Elegance. that in 2003 she became the first Indian actress to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. in the same year she became an ambassador for the world brand of L'Oréal, along with Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria and Penelope Cruz. Rai is the brand ambassador for the Bank Association eye of the national campaign of India to promote eye donation in India. In 2005 she became an ambassador for the polio pulse brand, a campaign established by the Government of India in 1994 to eradicate polio in India. In the same year, Rai was appointed spokesperson for the International Year of Microcredit, raising awareness of the main objectives and priorities of the United Nations poverty alleviation efforts.