Aishwarya Rai

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 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!

Aishwarya Rai

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”

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.

Aishwarya Rai, bollywood beauty and one of the most desirable woman of the world, recently appeared on Vogue India’s magazine. Apparently it was Vogue India’s first anniversary, so they went in for something big. And what bigger can be for an Indian magazine to have Aishwarya Rai featured on it’s cover, specially on an anniversay edition.

It’s not something latest in her news archives. It happened way back in October 2008. It’s just that AishwaryaWeb.com recently started updating more of her news. So here are few of the Vogue Magazine’s scans of gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan!

Just for your information, these photos were photographed by ace lens man Farrokh Chothia.

Aishwarya Rai still looks damn gorgeous. I am however little upset that she is not as active in Bollywood movies as much as she used to be! Blame Hollywood offers or probably non good Bollywood scripts. Anyways, i hope to see Aishwarya in some more quality movies real soon!