Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has truly proved that beauty queens can be successful actresses as well. Even though there have been the likes of Zeenat Amanbefore, she has touched even greater heights of success than any of her contemporaries, models or otherwise. Despite being declared the world's most beautiful woman in 1994 after winning the Miss World title, she did not have a spectacular beginning in Hindi films, even though she debuted with Mani Ratnam's Tamil flick, "Iruvar' (1997) and followed it with a hit in another Tamil film, "Jeans' the following year.
Aishwarya made her Hindi film debut in 1997 with "Aur Pyar Ho Gaya,' her Bobby Deol starrer. But Bollywood really sat up and took her seriously after the success of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Hum Dil Chuke Sanam' (1999) for which she even won the Filmfare award for "Best Actress'. She followed it up with films likeSubhash Ghai's "Taal', Mansoor Khan's "Josh', "Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai', "Mohabbatein', but it was Bhansali's "Devdas' in 2002, which again pushed her to dizzying heights, with the movie also having a special screening at Cannes. With Bengali film director Rituparno Ghosh's "Chokher Bali', she again proved her prowess as an actress. She had a slight dip in her career when films like "Dil Ka Rishta', "Kuch Na Kaho', Gurinder Chadha's "Bride and Prejudice', "Khakee', Ghosh's "Raincoat', "Shabd', Paul Mayeda Berges's "'The Mistress Of Spices' failed to sparkle.
But she bounced back into reckoning with "Dhoom 2' where Hrithik Roshan and she sizzled as a screen couple. They repeated their magic with Ashutosh Gowariker's "Jodhaa Akbar' in 2008, a film which won her a lot of critical and commercial acclaim along with Mani's "Guru'. Ash continued her tryst with international cinema with "Provoked', "The Last Legion' and "Pink Panther 2'. In between there was Ram Gopal Verma's "Sarkar Raj' along with husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan.
In Ratnam's "Raavan', she was cast opposite husband Abhishek Bachchan in the Hindi version and Tamil actor Vikram in the South version. The actress has quite a few good films in her kitty, like the trilingual film "Endhiran'/ "Robot' opposite Rajnikanth, Bhansali's forthcoming "Guzaarish' opposite Hrithik, Vipul Shah's "Action Replayy' opposite Akshay Kumar and Abhinay Deo's next.
The actress is a recipient of the Padma Shri and was declared the "Female Star of the Decade' at the IIFA awards held in Macau last year. Her marriage into the Bachchan family has only gone ahead to enhance her brand value and she is the leading face of many international brands like L'Oreal. Truly, the Ash magic seems to showing no signs of waning at the moment.
Source: movietalkies
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