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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan[1] or
Aishwarya Bachchan[2][3] (Birthname: Aishwarya Rai; Tulu:
ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ; born November 1, 1973) is an internationally
renowned Indian actress. Before starting her acting career, she
worked as a model, and gained fame after winning the Miss World
contest in 1994.
Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world,[4] Rai
made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, Iruvar (1997).
She had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans
(1998), and came to the attention of Bollywood in the Hindi
movie, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela
Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best
Actress Award, and she successfully performed in Bhansali's next
project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Best
Actress Award at the Filmfare. Since then, she has acted in over
forty movies in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English, including the
international productions, Bride & Prejudice (2003), Mistress of
Spices (2006) and The Last Legion (2007) in English.
She went on to appear in many Bollywood films; a few successful films of her
career include Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), which earned the actress her first
Filmfare Best Actress Award and Taal (1999), which gave her another nomination
for Best Actress at the Filmfare; her performances in both the films were
lauded.[7] In 2000, she played a supporting role in the hit films Mohabbatein
and Josh. Later that year, she starred in the Tamil film Kandukondain
Kandukondain, which won her positive reviews.
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