Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai and Fredia Pinto are going to battle it out for next Bond movie. Both are vying to be the first Indian Bond girl as rumors spread that the next 007 film will be shot in India.

Producers of the film, expected to be directed by Sam Mendes, have been scouting locations in India. It is believed that the plot of the movie is based on Afghanistan which has terrains and landscapes similar to India’s state of Rajasthan which is a deserts and also the arid mountains of Ladakh, another great picturesque place close to the border with Tibet.

Last week, rumors arose when Freida Pinto, who played Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, was linked to the James Bond movie by some unknown source. Her latest film, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger“, directed by the greatest of all, Woody Allen, will be released later this year.

On the other hand, we have our very beautiful and the very first choice for a bond girl since last few years, Ms. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. She is a former Miss World and India’s most successful actress. That alone says plenty about Aishwarya’s beauty, glamorous image and the experience she has in industry. According to a source “Aishwarya Rai, 36, was better suited to the role because of her vast experience in Bollywood and Hollywood. She recently appeared in Pink Panther 2 with Steve Martin and made her name outside India in Bride and Prejudice.”

While comparing both the actresses, it was said “Freida Pinto, Aged 25 and recently listed as one of the world’s most beautiful women by People magazine, she would appear to fit the age and beauty profile.” but as for Aishwarya Rai “While Rai is 11 years older, her friends reminded her Indian fans she was once described as the “most beautiful woman in the world” by Julia Roberts.”

None of the spokesman for Eon, the film’s producers, were available for comment.

Aishwarya Rai, the face of many cosmetic products and the highest paid actress in Bollywood, definitely does not have any competition whatsoever and in AishwaryWeb.com’s honest review, Aishwarya has got it all what it takes to be a bond girl. The only thing is, whether Aishwarya will say yes to the role or not!

In Irish novelist Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, the battered wife Paula keeps justifying her bruises by saying she as a habit walks into closed doors and hurts herself.

The battered wife Kiranjit in Jagmohan Mundhra’s jolting expose on domestic values never gets a chance to walk in or out of that closed London door where she lives with her brutal husband. She chooses her husband’s death over own exit.

It’s amazing how the true-life Kiranjit Ahluwalia found freedom by setting her brutal husband on fire. In one of the film’s most sensitively delineated dialogues, Kiranjit says to her rather overly benign prison mates, “I’ve never felt freer in my life.”

Provoked is based on an autobiography by Kiranjit Ahluwalia who was jailed for killing her violent husband by setting him on fire in 1989 after having endured a decade of rape and beatings.

Critics have often panned our beautiful Aishwarya Rai for her acting skills.

But this time, Aishwarya, has garnered praise for her realistic portrayal – a far cry from the trademark glitz of Bollywood films.

“Definitely, she has shown the pain of my life on her face,” Ahluwalia told the Hindu newspaper. “She has done a very good job.”

Ahluwalia was charged with murder in 1989 and sentenced to life, but the punishment was reduced after pressure from activists which put the spotlight on domestic abuse.

Director Jagmohan Mundhra said Rai’s allure for millions of Indians and an international profile would help pull in audiences for what is considered an unappealing topic in Bollywood, which mainly churns out candyfloss romances.

“It took me some time to release the film here because Indian distributors are not believers in non-formula films,” Mundhra said.

Well done Aishwarya! I have never been so impressed by your acting, personally! Way to go!!! Good luck. We love ya!

Director Jagmohan Mundhra’s Provoked starring Aishwarya Rai is a real life story dealing with domestic violence. The film was sent for censorship late last month wherein it was passed with an ‘A’ certificate. This incidentally miffed the director.

“The film Provoked deals with domestic violence wherein Aishwarya Rai is subjected to physical, mental and verbal abuses by her husband. Hence the film had many abusive words. So we had to give it an adult certificate,” says Censorship Examining committee member Nandini Sardesai.

She further adds, “But Mundhra was not content with this outcome. So he agreed to delete the four letter words and got the film for re-censorship. Now it has been given a ‘U/A’ certificate.”

Sardesai says that Mundhra felt the need for the film to reach a wider audience because of its delicate issue. Giving the film an A certificate would have, thus limited the audience in the theatres. As a result, he agreed to delete abusive language from the movie.

Additionally, in order to reach a cross section of the society, Mundhra is also dubbing the film in the Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu languages. However, Mundhra will have to apply independently for censorship of each dubbed version.

Though the release date of the film isn’t finalized, Mundhra is planning to release the movie after 4 April, once the exam and the Cricket World Cup fever subsides.

The film was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.