Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai Biography

Rai was born in Mangalore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine engineer, and Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her ancestors are from the Bunt community of Mangalore. Her family relocated to Mumbai (Bombay) after her birth. Rai has one elder brother, Aditya Rai who is a film producer. Rai attended the Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai, then entered Jai Hind College, Churchgate, Mumbai for one year and then moved to Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai to finish her HSC. She was an A student and was on track to become an architect. Her mother tongue is Tulu. She also speaks Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil.

Rai began modeling on the side while pursuing for studies in Architecture, which did not materialise. In the 1994 Miss India contest, she was controversially placed second behind Sushmita Sen, and went on to win the Miss World title that same year and the Miss Photogenic award. After the one year reign as Miss World in London, she then worked as a professional model, in advertising and Indian fashion magazines and later got into the Indian film industry. Rai debuted in Mani Ratnam's Tamil language film, Iruvar (1997) with Mohanlal. She was introduced to Bollywood in the film, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya with Bobby Deol as her co-star; the film was not a big hit on box office.

However, her third project, a Tamil-language film, Jeans (1998) by S. Shankar was a critical and commercial success for which she was awarded the Filmfare Best Actress Award South. Aishwarya then appeared in many Bollywood films; a few successful films of her career include Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Taal (1999) for which her performance was lauded. She was awarded the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her role in the former. In 2000 she had a supporting role in the hit film Mohabbatein and also in another hit film Josh.

Aishwarya Rai Filmography

Bhopal Movie (2008) (in production) .... Jasmine Singh
Singularity (2008) (in production) .... Tulaja
Pink Panther 2 (2009) (filming) .... Sophie
Jodhaa Akbar (2007) (post-production) .... Jodhaa Bai
Sarkar Raj (2007) (post-production) .... Neha
The Last Legion (2007) .... Mira
Journey Across India (2007) .... Mumtaz Mahal
Guru (2007) .... Sujata G. Desai
Dhoom:2 (2006) .... Sunehri

Aishwarya Rai News & Scoop!

Movie Preview: Sarkar Raj

Movie Preview: Sarkar Raj Banner: K Sera Sera, Adlabs Films Ltd Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Praveen Nischol Director: Ram Gopal Varma Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govind Namdeo, Tanisha Mukherjee Music Composer: Bappi-Tutul Cinematography: Amit Roy Action: Allan Amin Art: Sunil Nigvekar Sound: Debasish Mishra Story: Prashant Pandey The promotional of the movie “Sarkar Raj “ has been released and a lots of [...]

Aish –Abhi to do another Mani Ratnam movie

Aish –Abhi to do another Mani Ratnam movie Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan have done many movies together, mostly before their marriage and now the couple is planning to do most of the movies together that will keep them together. The couple has been signed by Rajiv Menen and Mani Ratnam for their movies respectively.

Abhishek adjusts dates to do movie opposite wife

Abhishek adjusts dates to do movie opposite wife Abhishek was approached for the Rajiv Menon’s movie “Dhun� opposite Aishwarya Rai but he couldn’t do the movie because of the date problems. Later Aishwarya got sanctioned to do the role opposite Saif Ali Khan but Abhishek did not like Aishwarya doing movie with Saif and he immediately [...]

Movie on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Movie on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the founding leader of Bangladesh who was killed at his residence in a military fight. A movie is being planned on the life of the political leader by Abdul Gaffar Chawdhary and the bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have been contact for the [...]

Serial Killer Veerappan in Ekta and Ramu’s company

Serial Killer Veerappan in Ekta and Ramu’s company The serial queen Ekta Kapoor is in news for giving a blank cheque to Ram Gopal Verma , not for making any serial on a Saas Bahu subject ,but for making a movie on the serial killer Veerappan. There were rumors that Ekta and Ram Gopal Verma are [...]

Vidya replaces Aishwarya in “Pa�

Vidya replaces Aishwarya in “Pa� The movie “Pa� was written by R.Balki who had Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan in mind while sketching out the lead characters of the movie but lately it is said that the role written for Aishwarya Rai will be performed by Vidya Balan. The movie will also have Amitabh Bachchan [...]

Will Katrina and Salman get married?

Will Katrina and Salman get married? The directors of bollywood want Katrina in their movies, Katrina bagged the Style icon award in the Apsara awards that is the Producers Guild awards, defeating six other actresses of bollywood including Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Katrina is considered to be lucky for her presence in movies. Katrina is succeeding [...]

Katrina wins the Best Style Diva award

Katrina wins the Best Style Diva award The actress Katrina Kaif got the Best Female Style Icon ARY Gold trophy Diva award in the Producers Guild Awards ceremony. Many top bollywood actresses like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were present in the nomination list for getting the award. Katrina worked in many hit Hindi movies of the year [...]

Vikram gets a Mani Ratnam movie

Vikram gets a Mani Ratnam movie The bollywood actor Vikram has been struggling to get a Mani Ratnam movie and he got a great break when Mani signed on Vikram for one of his movies in which Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be playing the female lead role. The movie will be made in Tamil and Hindi.

Nominations for ZEE Cine Awards 2008

Nominations for ZEE Cine Awards 2008 The following list was released as the nomination of movies for Zee Cine Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on 26th April in UK.

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