Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai made the Bachchan and Rai family proud on 31st March’2009 when she was presented with Padma Shri Award 2009. Not only the families but i guess this is a proud moment for every fan follower of Aishwarya Rai. At least i am pretty happy for her. Padma Shri Award was presented by Pratibha Patil at the function in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Aishwarya Rai

The Bachchan family seems to have all the reason to be happy. After all, the tag of the Padma Awards seems hard to be leaving from the family. Amitabh Bachchan himself is an awardee of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. His wife, Jaya Bachchan, is an awardee of Padma Shri, and father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, had been conferred with Padma Bhushan. And now Ash simply adds another feather to the cap. Ahem! now that’s Bachchan’s family for you.

Besides Aishwarya Rai, our Bolywood’s real king, Akshay Kumar also got Padma Shri award 2009. He and wife, Twinkle, certainly had a great joy as well. Veteran actress and dancing queen of yester-years, Helen, was also bestowed with the Padma Shri for her contribution to art and cinema. Famous playback singer of yester-year, Shamshad Begum, and director of the central board of Reserve Bank of India, Ashok Shekhar Ganguly were among other prominent persons to get the prestigious award from the president.

Dr. Kakodkar received the Padma Vibhushan awards for his contribution to the field of nuclear science and technology.

Padma Awards, that is to say, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri aka Padmashree are given for exceptional and distinguished service in any field including service rendered by Government servants.

Our heartiest congratulations to our queen of hearts, Aishwarya Rai and kind Akshay Kumar for this achievement. Truly well deserved.

Update:I did manage to get some scans of the beautiful actress being awarded the Padma Shri award. And some sphotos of others moments from the function as well. Hope you enjoy ‘em.

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?

Aishwarya Rai

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 always looks pretty. So this is nothing new in regards to Aishwarya Rai. But i guess it’s her dress up that made us want to post this news.

I guess many of you have already seen the 54th Filmfare awards that was telecast few days back. If you missed, well we really can’t help it. However you will surely see the award function’s re-run soon on television. Because Indian Channels just can’t stop repeating their telecast over and over again!

For me, the limelight of the show were three people. First being our beautiful queen of bollywood, Aishwarya Rai, who came along the Bachchans of course. Second was our very own Umraao Jaan, the one and only Rekha and the third one being the man being a hot discussion not only in India but all over world. Yes, i am talking about Oscar winner Mr. A.R. Rehman!

Alright, so i am getting the feeling that i am moving off topic by talking about fun and entertainment at Filmfare awards rather than talking about the ever so pretty Aishwarya Rai. So coming to back to the topic, Aishwarya wore a wonderful, dignified and a majestic sari this time around with her hair tied up at back. Sh looked a stunning beauty. I missed seeing Jaya Bachchan ji at the award function though. Okay, i really have no words to describe the glow on Aishwarya’s face and the sheer beauty that she undoubtedly, was looking that evening. And this time i am reminded more of the proverb that says “Pictures speak louder than words”. So cutting my commentary short, here are few pics of Aishwarya Rai from the Filmfare Award function that held at Yashraj Studios, Mumbai.