Aishwarya rai

Born

Aishwarya Rai
1 November 1973 (age 36)
Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994. During her career, Rai has acted in over 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali, which include a number of international productions.

Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She came to the attention of Bollywood in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Filmfare Best Actress Award.

After a low phase in her career during 2003–2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially and critically successful. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Hindi film industry.

Filmography

Year	Title	Language	Role	Notes
1997	Iruvar	Tamil	Pushpa / Kalpana
	Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya	Hindi	Ashi Kapoor
1998	Jeans	Tamil	Madhumita
1999	Aa Ab Laut Chalen	Hindi	Pooja
	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam	Hindi	Nandini	Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award
	Ravoyi Chandamama	Telugu		Special appearance
	Taal	Hindi	Mansi	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
2000	Mela	Hindi	Champakali	Guest appearance
	Kandukondain Kandukondain	Tamil	Meenakshi Bala
	Josh	Hindi	Shirley
	Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai	Hindi	Preeti Virat	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
	Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke	Hindi	Sahiba Grewal
	Mohabbatein	Hindi	Megha	Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2001	Albela	Hindi	Sonia
2002	Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam	Hindi	Suman	Guest appearance
	Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin	Hindi	Komal Rastogi
	23rd March 1931: Shaheed	Hindi		Special appearance
	Devdas	Hindi	Parvati (Paro)	Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award
	Shakti: The Power	Hindi	Herself	Special appearance in song "Ishq Kamina"
2003	Chokher Bali	Bengali	Binodhini
	Dil Ka Rishta	Hindi	Tia Sharma
	Kuch Naa Kaho	Hindi	Namrata Shrivastav
2004	Bride & Prejudice	English	Lalita Bakshi
	Khakee	Hindi	Mahalakshmi
	Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na	Hindi	Diya Malhotra
	Raincoat	Hindi	Neerja	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
2005	Shabd	Hindi	Antara Vashist/Tammana
	Bunty Aur Babli	Hindi		Special appearance in the song "Kajra Re"
	Mistress of Spices	English	Tilo
2006	Umrao Jaan	Hindi	Umrao Jaan
	Dhoom 2	Hindi	Sunehri	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
2007	Guru	Hindi	Sujata	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
	Journey Across India	English	Mumtaz Mahal
	Provoked	English Hindi	Kiranjit Ahluwalia
	The Last Legion	English	Mira
2008	Jodhaa Akbar	Hindi	Jodhaa Bai	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
	Sarkar Raj	Hindi	Anita Rajan
2009	The Pink Panther 2	English	Sonia Solandres
2010	Raavan	Hindi	Ragini Sharma
	Raavanan	Tamil	Ragini Subramaniam
	Enthiran	Tamil	Sana
	Guzaarish	Hindi	Shopia	Post-production
	Action Replayy	Hindi	Mala	Post-production