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Aishwarya Rai & Motherhood

Every woman in this beautiful world, do want to be a mother sometime in their life. And why not? It’s the most gifted thing in the whole wide world. Aishwarya Rai is no different and she now feels that this is the time to have a baby. In a recent late night television interview, Aishwarya Rai did slip out this little information that they are ready to have a bunch of kids.

It’s been almost four years now since Aishwarya and hubby Abhishek Bachchan got married. In the interview, when asked whether they were looking forward to have a baby, Aishwarya said “Of course, babies, motherhood obviously”. She added “God willing it is an absolute gift. God bless when it is meant to be and of course. We are looking forward to it and we will definitely cherish the experience.” Aishwarya did explain how hectic her life has really been. Of course when you are a big celebrity, that too of Aishwarya’s stature, you are destined to have a busy life. With celebrity status comes lot of work and commitments. Aishwarya spoke on how she has been balancing her marriage, personal life and professional life.

“I got married bang in the middle of a film,” she said, “Five years ago you would asked me this question I would have never imagined this would have happened.

I would have said I would wrap-up my work, take a couple of months off, pamper myself and then gotten married. But there I go bang in the middle of a historical piece.”

As many of Aishwarya Rai fans know, Ash is the highest paid Bollywood actress. We will see her soon in an upcoming science fiction romantic movie named “Robot”. She is starring against none other than Rajnikant.She says that she has always been a fan of Rajni and that shooting for ‘Robot’ was extremely exciting “Firstly because we’ve all grown up watching Rajnikant films and all those moves – it’s been exciting, everyone around me was excited about me working with him. So that got infectious. The first time he made a subtle move – the kind that we see on television or in spoofs I almost let out a chuckle and thought, ‘Oh my God! I have seen this moment right here. I just saw a Rajni moment!’ I was beaming throughout.”

I have always imagined how Aishwarya Abhishek’s offspring will look like. Probably much more handsome/beautiful than the couple themselves! We will have to wait and watch for few years in that case

Hey, Aishwarya also talked about cricket. That’s something new from Aishwarya. However not in a positive way. Ash said she has no interest in IPL. “We have not thought or discussed it at all” she asserted. Anyways, personal choices i would say!

I didn’t have anything to update on AishwaryaWeb.com today. So i finally checked up all the emails we have got from Aishwarya Rai’s and AishwaryaWeb.com’s fanclub. In all honesty, i was pretty amazed with our blog’s fan following. That’s why i decided to add Feedburner to this blog so that you guys can get all the latest news of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan right into your email’s inbox. That’s right, you will be informed whenever a new post is published on our website and don’t worry, i hate spam as much as you do. So, rest assured, you will only get the updates notification in your mail from our side. Just click on the link -> “Subscribe Via Feedburner” and fill in your email address. You will be sent a confirmation mail by Google feedburner then. Just confirm via the link provided in that email and you will be all set to receive the updates.

Coming back to the few mails that many of you wrote, well, i did find one thing in common. Lot of people asked for high quality images of Aishwarya Rai in her recent promotional campaigns for the movie “Pink Panther 2“. Indeed she was looking extremely gorgeous in all the campaigns, so i can imagine why i received that request. I can’t guarantee high quality images of Aishwarya Rai but i can definitely provide many many photographs of the concerned campaigns. I am sure it will be a treat to all Aishwarya Rai fans. And am sorry for not updating this site with those images before. But i guess better little late, than never

Alright, time for Aishwarya Rai’s gallery. And hey, don’t comment any “fat girl” type comments for the second pic in gallery. It’s just a stupid angle which makes her look fat. As for the images, you can just see a part of the whole image. You need to click the thumbnail images to view full image.

So here is gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, on Pink Panther 2’s promotional campaigns:

Second last pic in the gallery blew my mind. And why not? Aishwarya Rai is still the most beautiful of all women in the world. And that very image leaves me breathless!

I hope you liked the gallery! If yes, why not share with others?

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I do hope you have heard about Forbes.com. It’s one of the most popular, American publication, online magazine on net globally. But i this post is not about discussing how big Forbes magazine is. In fact Forbes recently made a list of most bankable actors and actresses in world. And believe it or not, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is the top Bollywood star on that list.

According to Forbes, Aishwarya Rai is the most bankable actress from Bollywood in world.  The list also include the khans i.e. Shahrukh Khan, Aaamir Khan, Salman Khan, Irrfan Khan and Hrithik Roshan but they were no match for Aishwarya whatsoever. If you have been keeping up with the bollywood news, you must have noticed that Aishwarya Rai’s bollywood ratings have gone down big time in bollywood. However Forbes list proves the bollywood’s ranking wrong by naming Ash as the top bollywood actress in their list. And why not? She is well recognized as far as International Cinema is concerned. Her last three movies namely Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and the recently released Pink Panther 2 (2009), certainly caught the attention of many cinema lovers, around the world.

Her stature in the cinema world bloomed to a great extent after her marriage with actor Abhishek Bachchan. Following her contribution to the field of cinema, Aishwarya was even honored with the prestigious Indian award “Padmashree” in January’2009.

Forbes list actually consisted of 1,411 actors from around the globe and Aishwarya ranked 387. Also, she is the only Indian female in the list, so that’s a true testament to girl power right there. Among male Bollywood actors, Aamir is ranked highest at 540th in the global list, followed by Shahrukh (735th), Salman (753rd), Irrfan Khan (825th) and Hrithik Roshan (1059th).  The great Khans seriously have a lot of work to do to catch up to Aishwarya Rai.

By the way, American actor of the Indian origin, Kal Penn who starred as actress Tabu’s son in the movie “The Namesake” has also been named in the Forbes list. And he is at 476th position. So that is higher than the rest of the Bollywood actors. But i didn’t name him along with the rest because he is not a Bollywood actor. And if you are windering who topped the list all over, it’s the great actor, Will Smith, followed by Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie.

Aishwarya Rai did comment on the rankings. She said “Me the most bankable Bollywood star in Hollywood? Thank you! I must confess that any acknowledgment of hard work makes me feel content. In all humility, I want to thank all those who feel I’m bankable.” Indeed all her hard work is paying off!

Aishwarya n Abhishek

I do believe that you all remember Mani Ratnam’s superhit movie “Guru”. Ace cinematographer Rajiv Menon captured some really beautiful moments between Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan in that movie. It still is one of my favorite movies, till date.

Rajiv Menon is now all set to direct a new movie, with Aishwarys Rai and Abhishek as it’s leading stars. So we all get to see the couple once again in a bollywood flick. That would really be a treat for many. This movie has been titled “Dhun“. Rajiv in a recent interview with Bollywood Hungama already confirmed as he said “Yes…Abhishek and Aishwarya are starring in my next directorial venture titled Dhun. It’s a film where music plays a very important role. The film goes on floors sometime in June this year.” So that’s it. June 2009, hot weather, grab some soft drinks, some popcorns and a seat in your nearby movie hall and watch “Dhun”. That’s one of the better ways to beat the heat

However, the movie already went into some questioning by media as the rumors began that “Dhun” is pretty similar to Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan starrer “Abhimaan“. I hope you all remember watching it. The storyline looks pretty much same as on now. But Rajiv Menon has already cleared that there is no similarity except the fact that the characters in his film also play musicians. Even Abhishek Bachchan supported his clarification on the fact that “Dhun” has nothing to do with “Abhimaan”. So that rumor should end now.

The film is coming from the production house of Eros International. But what interests me more is that the music will be provided by none other than the Oscar winner A.R. Rahman. Some people might be questioning if A.R. Rahman can recreate the magic in his music that we all heard and appreciated in “Guru”. I bet he can. He is an Oscar winner. And he is king of music. He surely will provide even better music for “Dhun”. Just can’t wait for the music release of the movie Dhun.

Honestly, i am really looking forward to the movie already. I just hope the movie has something good to offer to it’s audience. Specially after success of “Guru”, people might have high expectations from the movie and from the best couple in bollywood, Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan. Would love to see them on screen, once again!

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Nah…. Probably the title will give you a wrong idea about this post. But let us clear it up for you!

In December 2008, there came a great movie titled “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Directed by David Fincher and starring the Hollywood’s top gun Brad Pitt, the film was a nice little success. The whole movie revolves around the guy named Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, who actually was born as an old man in the movie and starts getting younger as he grows old. Bizarre? Haan….

The movie actually did pretty good and was even nominated both in Oscars and BAFTA awards this year for best actor, best motion picture, among many more. It managed to get few Oscars for art direction, make up, visual effects etc. but no real biggies. So you can imagine, that it wasn’t the best-est of movies in 2008, but still was pretty damn good. Having watched the movie myself, i do think a Bollywood remake of it will do well in India. And that’s what we are talking here about.

Yes, it is true that a desi remake of ” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is in progress. What excites me more is that Akshay Kumar has been casted for the role of Benjamin Button. And Aishwarya Rai has been casted as the leading actress opposite Akshay in the movie. She will most likely play the role of Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett in english version). Humm.. It would be good to see Akshay and Aishwarya together once again after they made a great success in the movie Khakee! I really think they looked sensational in that movie. “Wada Raha” song is still one of my favorites. Anyways, about the film, well it’s being directed by Vipul Shah. Accroding to him “What we are attempting is very ambitious and it hasn’t happened in Indian cinema before. The film is an out-and-out romantic comedy but reversing time is the challenging element. We’re putting in a lot of effort to pull off this one. We have to keep improvising on our content and technical abilities all the time.”

The movie will start with Akshay Kumar as a 62 year old person and end with him being a trendy, fashionable dude who loves to wear bell bottoms and wide belts. So we are probably looking at bit of humor in the movie as well.

If this movie does half as good as what the original “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” did, then we are here for a great treat. By the way, the movie is to be completed and released around November or December. That’s the same time wherein Shahrukh Khan plans to launch his film “My Name is Khan” and Aamir Khan also plans to launch his “3 Idiots”