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Aishwarya Rai Aishwarya Rai
 

Aishwarya Rai is an Indian model and one of the top class and highly-paid actresses in India. She is Miss World of 1994, and in 2000 she was voted Most Beautiful Miss World of All Time.

She attended her schooling in Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai, and then entered Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai. In addition to her mother tongue Tulu; she speaks English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu, and Marathi.

Rai began modeling while studying architecture and in the 1994 Miss India contest, she placed second behind Sushmita Sen and won the Miss World title and the Miss Photogenic award at that same year. After the one year reign as Miss World in London, she worked as a professional model, in advertising and Indian fashion world.

“Rai’s first film was a Tamil movie Iruvar in (1997), directed by Mani Ratnam. Her breakthrough performance came in 1999 with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Later standout successes include Taal and Devdas. Besides Hindi language, Bollywood films, Rai has also acted in Tamil films such as Jeans and Kandukondain Kandukondain and the Bengali film Chokher Bali, and appeared in a Telugu film Ravoyi Chandamama. Since 2004 Rai has also been appearing in an increasing number of English language films.”

 
 
In the film world
 
Glorious Start
1997 IRUVAR (TAMIL) ASH - TABBU
1997 AUR PYAR HO GAYA ASH - BOBBY DEOL
1997 IDDARU (TELUGU) ASH – MOHANLAL
1998 AA AB LAUT CHALEIN ASH - AKSHAY KHANNA
1998 AANANDAM ASH - MOHANLAL
1998 ALBELA ASH - GOVINDA
1998 HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM ASH - SALMAN KHAN
1998 HUM PANCHI EK DAAL KE ASH - SUNIL SHETTY
1998 JEANS (TAMIL, TELUGU AND HINDI) ASH - PRASHANT
1999 TAAL ASH - ANIL KAPOOR 2000 JOSH ASH - SHAHRUKH KHAN
2000 HAMARA DIL AAP KE PASS HAI ASH - ANIL KAPOOR - SONALI BENDRE
2000 DHAAI AKSHAR PREM KE ASH - ABHISHEK BACHAN

2000 MOHABBATEIN ASH - SHAHRUKH KHAN - AMITABH
 
 
Latest Filims

The Rebel (2007) (announced) ... Rani Laxmibai
Singularity (2006) (announced) ... Tulaja (in English)
Guru (2006) ... (announced)
Jodha-Akbar (2006) (pre-production) ... Jodha Bai
Dhoom 2 (2006) ... (filming)
The Last Legion (2006) (post-production) ... Mira (in English)
Umrao Jaan (2006) (post-production) ... Umrao Jaan
The Heart of India (2006) ... Mumtaz Mahal
Provoked (2006) ... Kiranjit Ahluwalia (in English)
The Mistress of Spices (2005) ... Tilo (in English)
Bunty Aur Babli (2005) ... ("Kajra Re" song) (item number)
Shabd (2005) ... Antara Vashisht
Bride & Prejudice (2004) ... Lalita Bakshi (in English)
Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na (2004) ... Diya Malhotra
Raincoat (2004) ... Neerja/Neeru
Khakee (2004) ... Mahalaxshmi
Kuch Naa Kaho (2003) ... Namrata Shrivastav
Chokher Bali (2003) ... Binodini (in Bengali)
Dil Ka Rishta (2003) ... Tia Sharma
Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin (2002) ... Komal Rastogi
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002) ... Special Appearance
Devdas (2002) ... Parvati ('Paro')

 

Awards Won

Rai has won two Filmfare Awards to date:

  • 2000, Filmfare Best Actress Award, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.
  • 2003, Filmfare Best Actress Award, Devdas.
She has been nominated four times in the Best Actress category and once in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Filmfare Awards. She has also won three IIFA Awards, three Z-Gold Awards, four Star Screen Awards, an EU's Global Diversity Award, three Zee Cine Awards and a Rajiv Gandhi Award.
 
 
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