Editor, Jitesh Pillaai wishes Aishwarya many happy returns of the day
There are women. There are beautiful women. And tere’s Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. From being Miss World to receiving the Padma Shri to Madame Tussauds, Aishhwarya has truly led a chequered career.
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We list down five most powerful Hollywood roles for Aishwarya
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all about beauty; flawless beauty rather. But when she faces the camera, she leaves her alluring charm behind and gets into the skin of her character. We are missing her acting prowess on 70mm and we want her back.
Though she is being choosy for her comeback, we are really waiting for an official announcement. So on her birthday, we wish for these five Hollywood films to be made in Bollywood, so that Aishwarya would perfectly fit the bill.
The Bridges of Madison County
Aishwarya Rai will surely bring out the right nuances that Meryl Streep brought in the film. The film is about Francesc, a married lady who has an affair with a photograher for four days. Ash can bring the right amount of maturity.
Thelma and Louise
The film is about waitress and a housewife, who shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird. Ash can play the role of Susan, the housewife and we are so sure it will be fun to watch Ash team up with a female actress for an action packed road trip.
One Fine Day
It’s an romcom film where two working single parents fall in love. After listing down heavy duty roles, this light romantic film will surely work wonders for her fans.
Changeling
A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious imposter as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day. Oh boy! Ash will blow your minds off if she gets to do this role for sure.
Sound Of Music
Ash will be a perfect pick to play Julie Andrews for a Sound Of Music remake.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Filmfare knows her... down the years
“If I’d done Raja Hindustani, I wouldn’t have become Miss India or Miss World. So you see, you win some, you lose some.” AUGUST 1997
“If I make some heroines insecure and they react violently, I can’t be blamed for it. I’ve been a sitting target for very many but I have never hit back at the viciousness. I don’t seek revenge. I don’t react. I merely act.” AUGUST 1997
“I am my best friend. At the end of the day, I have only myself to turn to. I know who and what’s best for me.” SEPTEMBER 1997
“I don’t think I have ever been called a bimbette or an air head. Even when I joined films, much was made about my being a student of architecture. During my tenure as Miss World, I was looked upon as a cultural ambassador for India rather than just someone who had won a beauty contest. Sometimes I feel I’m still wearing the crown.”
SEPTEMBER 1999
“I hear Sanjay Leela Bhansali has said that he cast me as Paro because he could see in my eyes, the personal pain that I was going through. I just hope he’s happy with my Paro.”
SEPTEMBER 1999
“I was very greedy about every minute there, I was this owl. As it is, Shah Rukh and I don’t sleep much. And Cannes is so alive, day and night. The ambience is wonderful. AUGUST 2002
“What does the No.1 position get you? The best directors, arguably the best scripts, a good paycheck and good standing….if those are the trappings then they were there for me right from the beginning. If there’s something like No.1, the industry treated me like the No.1 from day one.” AUGUST 2002
“If I look into the mirror 20 times a day, it is a part of my job. Please don’t call me vain for that.” AUGUST 2002
“When you go through a lot, it’s very easy to sink. Staying afloat can be very tough… Ironically, my best times have also been my worst. God made me go through whatever experiences for a reason. I’m searching for that reason.” AUGUST 2002
“Am I happy? Happiness is a relative term. It’s the way you like to perceive it. Happiness plays a lot of hide and seek with me. But happiness and I are good friends.” AUGUST 2002
Facts about Aishwarya Rai as an child, actress and herself unknown to everyone.
- Aishwarya is the first Indian actor to be on the jury at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
- Aishwarya would have been a doctor or an architect if not an actress.
- Aishwarya had auditioned for voice dubbing for a television serial. In addition, can you believe it; the Ms. World was rejected outright!
- The host, Richand Steinmelz, of the Miss World 1994 event, actually asked Aishwarya Rai Bachchan out. Aishwarya Rai, being a professional refused right away.
- Aishwarya picture is featured in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records.
- When Aishwarya is at home, she is always casually dressed and she spends hours chatting up friends. She cherishes every gift she gets. During the Pepsi campaign, Aishwarya dropped in on a young girl who presented her with a framed collage of her pictures. It has pride of place on one of the walls in her room. Some dolls her friends presented her with rub shoulders with other expensive showpieces in her treasured collection.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was to act in Lajja? Well Santoshi had also signed her for the film. She was to appear in a scene where Manisha Koirala imagines a Sita Ram confrontation and finds Aishwarya doing the scene. However, the length of the film was a big impediment. The film ran all the way up to three hours and 23 minutes even without Aishwarya Rai scene. Now the film had to be anyway chopped to 3 hours and 10 minutes. Now there was no alternative but to cut Rai scene out.
- She secured 90% (PCB) in HSC at Ruparel College in Mumbai.
- Aishwarya learnt classical dance and music in her teens for 5 years.
- Her Pepsi ad with Aamir Khan was shot in one night during the infamous Bombay riots.
- Sachin Tendulkar is Aishwarya neighbor. He lives a floor right above Aishwarya apartment.
- Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain is the first 'commercial' Indian film that was shown at the London Film Festival a few years ago.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was ranked the 7th Most Admired Indian in a countrywide poll conducted by The Week magazine recently. The only film celebrities in the list were Lata Mangeshkar (2nd) and Amitabh Bachchan (4th).
- Shahrukh Khan wanted the two big beauty queens, Aishwarya and Sushmita Sen in Asoka during the initial planning process for the movie. Aishwarya Rai nearly signed the lead role in Asoka, until director Santosh Sivan decided he wanted an actress that had not been paired with Shahrukh before on the big screen. Well, it seems Shahrukh also wanted Sushmita Sen to appear in the movie for the special song and dance number. However, its a shame that things didn't work out, other Asoka would have managed that casting coup that so many directors and producers have tried beforehand - Miss World and Miss Universe together on the big screen at last!
- Aishwarya does not like to entertain guests in her trailer van. She meets them only the sets where when she is not giving a shot she is usually giggling over some joke a co-star cracked.
- Ash hates talking on the cell phone when she is working. She believes they should be banned on the sets.
- Aishwarya wore very little makeup in Josh and had to tan her skin to look more like a Goan.
- Aishwarya pet name at home is "Gullu".
- Aishwarya was hurt in Mela during the 'falling on top of the truck' scene.
- Aishwarya Rai always gets at least two movie offers everyday.
- Ash is also the only star, besides Aamir Khan, to campaign for both Pepsi and Coca Cola.
- Aishwarya Rai, was first offered Karisma Kapoor's role in Raja Hindustani. She was also offered, Rani Mukherjee's role in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. In addition, she was offered Sonali Bendre's role in Hum Saath Saath Hain and Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. Of course, these are not the only films she was offered. Which director would not want to cast this angel...!
- In the song sequence of 'Hai Re Hai Re Hai Rabba' from the movie Jeans, in the canyon scene, Aishwarya wore a yellow top and a maroon fitted skirt. Ash wore that without anyone noticing that her clothes were not the ones that she was told to wear. The actual clothes were too tight for her. She found a yellow dupatta, and wound it around both her shoulders. She used many pins and literally stitched it over her body. She had a maroon colored maxi below. The original blouse was beige colored, but it was not fitting her at all. Nobody came to know the problem with her dress. She even slept throughout the night with those clothes for the next morning's shoot, as the dupatta was difficult to remove due to the enormous amount of pins holding it together.
- Aishwarya Rai did her own stunt scenes in Josh.
- Shahrukh Khan was asked to wear contact lenses in Josh so that his eyes matched Aishwarya and they both could look like siblings.
- That the song 'Aati Kya Khandala' was given to Mansoor Khan by Nitin Raikwar for Josh. Mansoor Khan did not like the lyrics and the song was passed on to Vikram Bhatt who used it in Ghulam that went on to become a rage. Realising his folly, Mansoor asked Nitin to write a similar type of song for Josh and he came up with 'Apun Bola' that has been sung by Shahrukh. Apparently, they also offered Ash to sing the song but Ash did not.
- The song 'Taal se taal mila' in Taal was shot at Khandala in natural rains for seven consecutive days.
- Taal is the first Indian Film being fully insured by the Indian Insurance Company.
- Taal is the first Hindi Film to top the chart of Hollywood Top 60 (per screen average wise) in its first weekend.
- The first half of Kandukondain Kandukondain was completed in a week's time.
- In the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, the scene at the restaurant with Ash and Ajay Devgan, she ate 12 real chillies!
- During the shoot of the scene of Abbas and Aishwarya in the Mercedes in Kandukondain Kandukondain, she nearly missed getting run over by an autorickshaw while getting out of the car. She and the unit breathed a sigh of relief.
- Aishwarya is India's second model to win the Miss World title.
- Before Aishwarya left for the Miss India finals, her zip had split and the designer brought her gown to Goa, since the contest was in Goa. The same thing happened to her in Miss World. On the evening, she was doing her final trial on her gown, the zip split. It had to be repaired, so it came in later.
- Aishwarya used to accompany her mother to marketplace and haggle over the prices with vegetable vendors when she was young.
- Aishwarya Rai sued a magazine, 'Star And Style' for a sum of Rs 2 crores for printing an article that said Raveena Tandon had caught her and Akshay Kumar together in a compromising position at the pool side of a five star hotel.
- Aishwarya is the first Indian actress to have decided to donate her eyes.
- During Aishwarya rendition of Yengai Yennada Kavithai in Kandukondain Kandukondain, it actually poured cats and dogs as Chennai was facing the brunt of the North East monsoon. In fact, it rained so heavily that they actually found it difficult to shoot.
- The library scene in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, took Aishwarya 3 days of retakes.
- A chandelier broke on Ash hand and blood oozed out during Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. During the Nimbooda Nimbooda number, her feet were swollen for two days.
- Aishwarya was gifted a puppy named 'Sunshine' by her friend Vivek Oberoi.
- In the October 2, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, Aishwarya is described as "the hottest thing from India since chicken tikka."
- During the shooting of the song 'Dola Re Dola' from Devdas, Aishwarya ears were bleeding due to the heavy earrings she had to wear. However, being the professional she is, she continued the shoot in silent pain, smiling all the while.
- On the day for the 1994 Miss India pageant, nothing seemed to go right for Aishwarya. The swimsuit, her father's gift, simply disappeared and later, a valuable 'good luck' ring from her mother was misplaced by a friend whom she had given it for safekeeping. Then there was the much-publicised 'showdown' that took place backstage. According to Sushmita Sen, it began when the hair-dressers and make-up artists (who naturally knew Ash from her modelling days) spent all their time styling her and leaving the other girls waiting until 15 minutes before showtime. Angry and upset, Sushmita said she had an argument with The Times of India authorities and threatened to quit the pageant.
yatt_takez posted on 5-11-2013 03:01 PM
klu hangpa perasan. pilem2 pairing srk-aish tak dak yg hepi ending.
Mohabbatein - Megha mati
a'ah...mmg dah lama perasan pun mek yatt...
directOr depa dengki amat....x kasi happy ending kat SRK-Aishu....citttt!!
paling best lOving2 masa dlm Devdas....mencengkam jiwa...rabak hati ngk...
dah la Aishu lawa giler dlm Devdas tu...aduhaii.
@chaintea
iOls dah layan Ranjhaana....huk3.
syian Kundan mati....
yatt_takez posted on 7-11-2013 12:22 AM
lg sorang preity. tp nasib la veer zaara depa bersama gak. walaupon ms tua
Preity & SRK dlm Kal Ho Na Ho lagi nak pecah dada ngk ending nya...
berjurai2 airmata ngk SRK berterus-terang pasal penyakit dia..
then saat serahkan Preity pada Saif masa kawen...and last masa SRK nazak dan mati.
amikie posted on 7-11-2013 10:33 AM
Preity & SRK dlm Kal Ho Na Ho lagi nak pecah dada ngk ending nya...
berjurai2 airmata ngk SRK ber ...
Kal ho na ho tuh bila tgk fefeeling jdk naina. sedih sgt part cinta kena reject ngan aman.
time kawen tuh lg la. bleh rs apa yg naina tgh rs time tuh. cinta tak kesampaian
chaintea posted on 7-11-2013 03:30 PM
ai dah subscribe UNifi..wohoo astro say goodbye
depa ada 3 channel khas utk bollywood jah..last n ...
welkem to de club . dah lama terminate astro jugak. amik 1 cenel. sony max.
yg len2 tuh tak amik lak. 1 cenel pon tak larat nak layan.
bulan neh max premier tak silap depa nak tayang Shuddh Desi Romance.
yatt_takez posted on 7-11-2013 10:26 PM
Kal ho na ho tuh bila tgk fefeeling jdk naina. sedih sgt part cinta kena reject ngan aman.
ti ...
huk3...mereka saling mencintai tetapi hakikatnya usia Aman x panjang...
dia tahu masa dia x lama..
tu ler sanggup serahkan cinta hati pada kawan baik..
giler sentap jantung hati segala ngk citer ni...
mmg bOleh rasa apa yg Naina rasa bila tahu hakikat sebenarnya...
kalau jalan pun antara jejak x jejak je...
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