Aishwarya Rai Bachchan/Age
47 years
November 1, 1973
Aishwarya rai bachchan height & weight
Height (approx.) in centimeters- 170 cm in meters- 1.70 m in Feet Inches- 5'7”
Weight (approx.) in Kilograms- 56 kg in Pounds- 123 lbs
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan/Daughter & Age
Aaradhya Bachchan 9 years 2011
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress, born on 1 November 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka.
Aishwarya was born to Krishnaraj Rai and Vrinda Rai. She also has an elder brother, whose name is Aditya Rai who chose his career as an engineer in Merchant Navy. Aditya Rai also co-produced one of Aishwarya's movie, Dil Ka Rishta.
She did her schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir High School in Santa Cruz, Mumbai. She joined Jai Hind College for one year and then she moved to Ruparel College in Matunga to finish her HSC studies.
In 1999, Aishwarya started dating with Bollywood actor Salman Khan. Rai cited "abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), infidelity and indignity" on the part of Khan as a reason for ending their relationship, to which Salman denied and said "Its not true that I hit a woman" in a Times of India article in 2009.
Aishwarya then married Abhishek Bachchan in the year 2007. They announced their engagement on 14 January 2007 and then they got married on 20th April 2007. They married according to traditional Hindu rites of the Bunt community to which she belongs. The wedding was held in a private ceremony at the Bachchan residence "Prateeksha" in Juhu, Mumbai.
Career
Before choosing acting as her career, she was a model and became Miss World in 1994. She has acted in more than 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali.
Her first breakthrough role was in a Tamil movie named Jeans. She made her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil biopic film Iruvar in the year 1997 opposite Mohonlal. The film was a huge success and won many awards including Best Film award at the Belgrade International Film Festival.
She made her Bollywood debut with Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya which also starred Bobby Deol. It wasn't a success at the box office. The third movie with S. Shankar, Jeans was a commercial success which released in 1998. The film was an official Indian entry to the Oscars for that year.
In 1999, she starred in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan. The film became the first box office success in Bollywood for her. She got her first Filmfare Best Actress Award for the role that she played in the film.
Later, in the same year, she was again seen in the film Taal, directed by Subhash Ghai opposite Akshay Khanna. It did average business in India but went on to become a huge success overseas.
In the year 2000, she starred in the film Josh with Shahrukh Khan and Chandrachur Singh. It was a commercial success. Later, in that year, she starred in the film Hamara Dil Aapke Paas hai opposite Anil Kapoor. It went on to do average business at the box office.
Later, again she starred in Mohabbatein in a supporting role with Sharukh khan and Amitabh Bachchan. It was a huge success and became the second highest grosser of the year.
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In 2002, she starred in the film Devdas again with Shahrukh Khan. The movie was based on a novel, Devdas written by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It was a great success on the box office and recived a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival. It became the highest grossing film of the year in both India and overseas.
In the year 2003, she starred in the movie Dil ka Rishta and Kuch Na Kaho. But both didn't do well at the box office. In 2004, she appered in the film Pride and Prejudice which was a Bollywood-style English movie. Later that year for the first time she played a negative role in the film Khakee.
In 2005, she starred in Shabd with Sanjay Dutt and Zayed Khan. It was a flop at the box office. In the year 2006, she starred in another film, The Mistress of Spices which was based on the novel The Mistress of Spices written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It was also a flop and got some negative review. The same year she made a speical appearance in Bunty aur Babli for a song "Kajra Re" with Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.
In 2006, she starred in the film Umrao Jaan which again was a flop. Later, that year she starred in the movie Dhoom 2 opposite Hrithik Roshan. This was a blockbuster and became the highest grossing film of the year in India.
In 2007, she appeared in Guru which was based on Dhirubhai Ambani's real life. It went well at the box office. Later, in the same year, she starred in a film named Provoked which was a flop, though Aishwarya recived positive reviews from critics.
In 2008, she starred in the film Jodhaa Akbar which was based on Mughal Emperor Akbar. It was a success at the box office. Later that year she co-starred with her husband Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan in Ram Gopal Verma's Sarkar Raj which was the sequel of Sarkar.
In 2009, she appeared in a Hollywood movie The Pink Panther 2 which was a comedy movie. It fared average at the box office. Later that year, another movie Raavanan starring Abhishek Bachchan came on screen which was a flop, while in Tamil it was a huge hit.
In October 2010, she appeared with Rajinikant in the Tamil film Enthiran which is one of the biggest blockbusters in Indian cinema ever. She then starred with Akshay Kumar in the film Action Replay. Soon after in November 2010, she appeared with Hrithik Roshan in the movie Guzaarish.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Net worth
Aishwarya Rai net worth: Aishwarya Rai is an Indian actress who has a net worth of $100 million. Aishwarya Rai has earned her net worth from her prolific acting career, which includes dozens of movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali. Aishwarya is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and is one of the most popular celebrities in India. She came to prominence after winning the 1994 Miss World pageant.
She was born in Mangalore, Karnataka, India, into a Tulu-speaking Bunt family. Her mother Brindya was a housewife and her father Krishnaraj was a marine biologist. Her older brother, Aditya Rai, is an engineer in the merchant navy, and also co-produced one of her movies, Dil Ka Rishta, in 2003. Aishwarya took classical dance and music lessons for five years during her teens. She attended Raheja College to become an architect, however, she quickly gave that up to work on her modeling career.
When she was in the ninth grade she completed a modeling assignment for Camlin Pencils. In 1991, Rai was one of the model contestants in the Ford Supermodel Contest and also appeared in Vogue Magazine. She would eventually appear on the cover of Vogue multiple times.
Her popularity soared after she appeared in a Pepsi commercial alongside Aamir Khan. Interestingly, she is the only celebrity to endorse both Coke and Pepsi at various points.
Other major endorsements would eventually include Longines watches, Coca-Cola, Lakmé Cosmetics, Casio pager, Philips, Palmolive, Lux, and Fuji films. In India she was the official brand ambassador for De Beers diamonds.
Rai's first film, as an actress, was in the Mani Ratnam's Tamil biopic film, Iruvar, which debuted in 1997. The film won many awards, including the Best Film award at the Belgrade International Film Festival, and also two National Film Awards. She has also appeared in other films, such as; Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Subhash Ghai's Taal and in Mansoor Khan's Josh.
Aishwarya's professional acting career suffered a setback in 2003, due to two major box office flops, Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Chokher Bali, and Bollywood film Dil Ka Rishta. Some of her more recent movie roles include; Ashutosh Gowariker's historical drama, Jodhaa Akbar, in Harald Zwart's spy comedy film, The Pink Panther 2 and in the science fiction Tamil film, Enthiran.
She is also very active in social work, for instance, in 2004 she helped raise money for victims of the 2004 tsunami and earthquake, through an event called, the HELP! Telethon Concert. Also, in 2009, she was appointed the first Goodwill Ambassador of Smile Train.
Aishwarya met actor, producer, and television presenter, Abhishek Bachchan in 1997. They were married in 2007, and welcomed their first child in November 2011. Bachchan comes from a large Indian family, of whom many members have been a part of the Indian film industry.
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