22
Jun

Bollywood stars shine at “Raavan” world premiere in London
LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Bollywood came to London on Wednesday as Indian cinema’s star couple, husband and wife Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, hit the red carpet for the world premiere of the Hindi film “Raavan.”
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Aamir skips ‘Raavan’ premiere for mother
This could have been the Clash of the Titans with the presence of supposed rivals Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan at the London premiere of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Raavan’ Wednesday, if the latter had not missed the event for his mother.
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The Weekend Warrior: June 18 – 20
ComingSoon.net’s The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, June 18, the big one being the latest from Disney/Pixar and their very first threequel Toy Story 3 , featuring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and more. Also, Josh Brolin returns as the DC Comics Western character Jonah Hex (Warner Bros.) This week’s “The Chosen One” is Michael Winterbottom’s …
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20
Jun

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan candid interviews speaking about plastic surgery, responding to Abhishek Bachchan who says she “even sleeps like Miss World” during the filming of Kuch Na Kaho, and thoughts on her living at home with her family. Videos Featured: Kuch Naa Kaho DVD Features B4U, ZOOM Interviews Late Night Show with David Letterman Oprah COPYRIGHTS to CBS, ABC, B4U, ZOOM
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17
Jun

Bollywood stars shine at ”Raavan” world premiere in London
The actors performed their own stunts in the film but Aishwarya Rai said the production was as taxing emotionally and creatively as it was physically.
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I can’t use cheating tactics: Aishwarya Rai
She did it, but without prompting. Aishwarya Rai will be seen in the Hindi as well as Tamil versions of ‘Raavan’ that is releasing Friday, but says she didn’t use any prompting for either and relied on memory for her dialogues in both the languages.
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‘Raavan’ to hit about 2200 screens worldwide
The much-awaited Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Raavan’ will hit over 2,200 screens worldwide Friday, says its distributor.
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02
Jun

Aishwarya Rai – From Miss World to Mrs. Bachchan

You would think that life would be a bed of roses for a beautiful smart girl like Aishwarya Rai. This is not the case, life is not easy and Aishwarya Rai’s life too was like any other human life. She struggled and she struggled very hard to survive and achieve the success. Not only on professional grounds, where she rose to the fame from a fashion model turned actress to India’s number one actress.

As we all know that in order to succeed in bollywood as an actress, one must master the bollywood dance skills. Another thing which many people don’t know is that in order to get to the level of A class bollywood stars one also need to improve their Hindi accent and to correctly pronounce Urdu words.

Aishwarya learnt how to dance, her Hindi was not too bad but she quickly improvised it. Her polite ways and humbleness won the hearts of professionals that worked with her on the sets. She won Saroj Khan one of the best choreographers of India. Saroj later choreographed many of Aishwarya’s songs specially Niboda for the movie â??Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’. The song was an instant hit and Aishwarya successfully changed people’s perception about her that she is a “Fashion Model turned Actress”. Now she was the typical Bollywood heroine with all the dancing and acting skills necessary to succeed in the business.

While Aishwarya’s career was taking new turns her personal life was also facing new challenges. She got romantically involved with Salman Khan. It was a bad move, Salman Khan was known in the bollywood for beating his girlfriends and acting like a possessive jealous boyfriend. Aishwarya Rai thought that she can manage that too, but sometimes no matter how tactful you are, failure is unavoidable.

In the beginning Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai’s relationship was all wonderful. Media loved the couple as they were the most loved actors of Indian Film Industry; this made them the most popular couple of India. Salman Khan has always had a very difficult relationship with the press; on the other hand Aishwarya Rai was very good at maintaining good PR with Media. The Media tried to follow them everywhere.

Then Salman Khan started acting all possessive and jealous and Aishwarya Rai thought that she can handle him. Eventhough Salman always had bad press relationship and Aishwarya never publicly acknowledged her relationship with Salman Khan, he now wanted her to acknowledge their relationship. Aishwarya was reluctant she thought it would make Salman act more possessive and controlling, but Salman Argued that it will strengthen their relationship. The argument became a fight and then came Vivek Oberoi.

Aishwarya Rai never talked to media about this but it was rumored that Salman man handled her, slapped her and tried to break in to her house. Aishwarya Rai’s brother filed a police complain for that. After a few weeks of tension Aishwarya Rai got rid of Salman Khan.

Vivek Oberoi was a young actor with a single mediocre hit film on his credit. Aishwarya Rai and Vivek became good friends but Vivek thought they are more than something. Media also started projecting their non-existent romantic relationship. What nobody knew at that time was that Aishwarya Rai is actually seeing Abhishek Bachchan, an actor himself and son of the legendary filmstar Amitabh Bachchan. While media kept feeding people stories about a relationship between Aishwarya Rai and Vivek Oberoi, Aishwarya Rai got engaged to Abhishek Bachchan.

This came as a surprise to many, she was one of the most talented and most successful Indian actresses. In bollywood marriage is synonymous to the end of career especially for actresses. Aishwarya Rai announced her engagement and got married on 20 April 2007. She also proved the media wrong and she is still successful at box office and her career is still moving to new heights.

 

Geeta is an aspiring journalist, bollywood blogger and a Aishwarya Rai fan.