Saloment: BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS AISHWARYA RAI BIOGRAPHY AND HOT PICTURE

Aishwarya Rai was born on 1st Nov 1973 in Manglore, Karnatka, India. She was younger of the two siblings, her brother being 3 yrs elder. When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay permanently.

The extraterrestrial loveliness Aishwarya, won Miss World Title at Sun City in 1994 and has since then become the hottest possessions of Bollywood. Her stunning success as Miss World was follow by equally matchless activities in the film world. Aishwarya, who came into Bollywood by defaulting, as she was inundated with offer after being crowned in Sun City, has now become the undoubted queen of the tinsel country. Buoyed by her achievement she is now looking westwards.

Shortly she will be appearing in ‘Bride and Prejudice’ a re-working of the Jane Austin classic conflicting actor Martin Henderson (The Ring), going to by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham). How this movie fares at the box office remains to be seen but it has absolutely given a boost to her occupation as she has got many offers from the Hollywood. Born to a marine engineer father and a educator mother at Manglore, Aishwarya has spent most of her life in Mumbai. She did her matriculation from Arya Vidya Mandir and later attached JaiHindCollege. She did her twelfth standard from RuparelCollege.

Having scored well in her exams, she landed in the Rachana Institute. Aishwarya had originally wanted to become an architect. She was into studying contours of buildings at the RachnaCollege, when destiny willed otherwise and she landed in South Africa, for the Miss World contest where the contour of body mattered more. After her top as the best-looking lady on the planet, she has soared height after height. Films came as a usual choice for this model turned actress and she has done over a score of Hindi Films till date quite a number of them being blockbuster.

The most well-known one being Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s musical melodrama Devdas, co-starred by Sharukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. Devdas became the first Hindi Commercial Film to be screened at Cannes Film celebration. This year while we're on the subject she earned the distinction of being the first Indian Actress on the jury of the same celebration. In 2003 Aishwarya became the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film celebration. 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”. Her first film was Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar, in which she played a rather diminutive role but she could captivate the audience by her dance presentation and in depth acting. With duds like ‘Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya’ and ‘Jeans’, when everyone had almost written her off till she bounced back with a stunning performance in ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’. ‘Taal’ set her on equal footing with the reigning Goddess Madhuri Dixit. With extravaganza Devdas on one hand she has also starred in a frugally budgeted Bengali Film, ‘Choker Bali’ on the other. It’s an R Ghosh film, based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore. ‘Aa Ab Laut Chalein’ brought her under the RK banner and she feels proud to be associated with this great production house. Besides Hindi films, Aishwarya has starred in a few south Indian 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.

Name: Aishwarya Rai

Date of Birth: 1st November 1973