Aishwarya Rai Bachchan , Alias Aishwarya Rai, (born November 1, 1973, Mangalore, Karnataka state, India), Indian actress whose classic beauty made her one of Bollywood’s premier stars.
Rai was raised in a traditional South Indian home and was pursuing an education in architecture when she was crowned Miss World in 1994. The title put her on the fast track of the modeling business. She landed lucrative jobs with PepsiCo, Inc., and Vogue magazine, and in 2003 she signed on as a spokesmodel for L’Oréal Paris. Her acting career began in earnest with acclaimed performances in Iruvar (1997; The Duo) and …Aur pyaar ho gaya (1997; based on the 1994 American movie Only You). Both films broke from the simplistic structure typical of Bollywood films at the time and helped to push Rai to the forefront of the “New Bollywood.” For decades the Indian film industry had produced a large number of very predictable and clichéd feature films that were enjoyed almost exclusively by South Asians. Changes in Bollywood with regard to financing and production, however, had seen the industry move to improve the artistic quality of its product and to expand its audience beyond South Asia.
Rai established herself as the new “Queen of Bollywood” with her moving performance as the jilted lover Paro in Devdas (2002), one of the most acclaimed and popular films to come out of Bollywood and the first to be screened at the Cannes film festival. She followed with a critically acclaimed performance in Chokher Bali (2003; Choker Bali: A Passion Play), a tense drama based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore. That same year she became the first Indian actress to serve as a jury member at Cannes. In 2004 Rai starred in Bride and Prejudice, a music- and dance-filled adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that was directed by Gurinder Chadha, director of the 2002 hit Bend It Like Beckham. As Lalita Bakshi, the Indian equivalent of the strong-willed Elizabeth Bennett, Rai brought her star power and radiant beauty to her first major English-language film.
Rai returned to Bollywood for the blockbuster Dhoom: 2 (2006) before releasing the English-language Provoked: A True Story (2006), the tale of a Punjabi woman imprisoned for murdering her abusive husband. In April 2007 she married Abhishek Bachchan, her frequent costar and the son of Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, in a union that joined two of the most powerful names in the Indian entertainment industry. Rai returned to work in the Arthurian tale The Last Legion (2007). It proved to be a disappointment at the box office but was soon overshadowed by the critical and popular success of Jodhaa Akbar (2008), a lush historical romance that tells the story of Akbar, the greatest Mughal emperor.
Rai’s later films included The Pink Panther 2 (2009) and the action romance Enthiran (2010; The Robot). In Guzaarish (2010; The Request) she portrayed the nurse of a quadriplegic magician who wishes to legally end his life. Following the birth of her daughter in 2011, Rai took a hiatus from acting. She returned in 2015 with Jazbaa, a crime drama in which she played a criminal attorney whose daughter is kidnapped. The following year she starred in the biopic Sarbjit, about an Indian man held in a Pakistani prison on charges of terrorism and espionage. Fanney Khan (2018) was a musical comedy in which a father goes to great lengths to make his daughter a famous singer.
Family Life:
In 1999, Rai began dating Bollywood actor Salman Khan; their relationship was often reported in the media until the couple separated in 2002. Rai cited "abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), infidelity and indignity" on the part of Khan as reasons for ending the relationship.
Though they both appeared in Dhai Akshar Prem Ke (in which her then longtime boyfriend, Salman Khan, had a brief cameo) and Kuch Naa Kaho, Abhishek Bachchan fell in love with Rai whilst filming Dhoom 2.Their engagement was announced on 14 January 2007 and later confirmed by his father, Amitabh Bachchan.The couple married on 20 April 2007 according to traditional Hindu rites of the Bunt community, to which she belongs.Token North Indian and Bengali ceremonies were also performed. The wedding took place in a private ceremony at the Bachchan residence, "Prateeksha", in Juhu, Mumbai.They have been described in the Indian media as a supercouple.Rai is very close to her family, and lived with them in Bandra, Mumbai, until her marriage.
Rai is Hindu and deeply religious.Her international presence shot up when Abhishek Bachchan accompanied her to the Cannes Film Festival shortly after their marriage, and later to The Oprah Winfrey Show, appearing on 28 September 2009.They were described as being more famous as a couple than Brangelina.
Rai gave birth to a girl, Aaradhya, on 16 November 2011.Rai is commonly referred to by fans and the media by the nicknames "Ash" and "Aish", but has stated that she dislikes being called as such. She has discouraged people from referring to her by names other than "Aishwarya" as she does not want to "spoil [her] good name"
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