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Aishwarya Rai and Aaradhya Bachchan were seen arriving at a crowded site for Ganapati Darshan.
Aishwarya visits GSB pandal :
Aaradhya Bachchan holding both her mother’s and grandmother’s hands walked alongside them. Despite the presence of numerous security personnel the location remained heavily packed with fans eager to catch a glimpse of Aishwarya.
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This became particularly evident when they attended Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s high-profile wedding in Mumbai in July.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Biography :
Her acting career has earned her numerous accolades including two Filmfare Awards. In 2004 Time magazine recognized her as one of the 100 most influential people globally.
The Indian government honored her with the Padma Shri in 2009, and France awarded her the Order of Arts and Letters in 2012. During the 2000s and 2010s, she was frequently hailed as “the most beautiful woman in the world” by the media.
Rai made her acting debut in Mani Ratnam’s 1997 Tamil film Iruvar and also debuted in Hindi cinema with Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya the same year. Her breakthrough came with the Tamil romantic drama Jeans (1998)which was then the most expensive Indian film.
Rai’s success continued with acclaimed performances in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s romantic dramas Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), both of which earned her Filmfare Awards for Best Actress.
Her major commercial hits include the romantic dramas Mohabbatein (2000) and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016) the adventure film Dhoom 2 (2006), the biographical drama Guru (2007) the science-fiction film Enthiran (2010), and the period films Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Ponniyin Selvan (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan (2023).
In 2012 she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Rai has also participated in stage performances and is a notable brand endorser and investor.
In 2003 she made history as the first Indian actress to serve as a juror at the Cannes Film Festival. She married actor Abhishek Bachchan in 2007, and they have a daughter together.
Aishwarya Rai was born on November 1, 1973 into a Tulu-speaking Hindu family in Mangalore Karnataka. Her father Krishnaraj Rai who passed away on March 18, 2017, was an army biologist while her mother, Vrinda, is a housewife.
She has an older brother Aditya Rai an engineer in the merchant navy. Aditya co-produced Rai’s film Dil Ka Rishta (2003) and her mother co-wrote the script. Fluent in Tulu, Hindi, and English from a young age, Rai’s family later moved to Mumbai due to her father’s job transfer.
In Mumbai, she attended Arya Vidya Mandir High School and spent a year at Jai Hind College before transferring to D. G. Ruparel College in Matunga where she achieved 90 percent in her Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams.
Rai described her academic journey noting that despite consistently ranking first in school a significant ego blow came in the 10th grade when she placed seventh or eighth in her ICSE board exams.
During her teens Rai trained in classical dance and music for five years with a particular interest in Bharatanatyam. Although she initially pursued a career in medicine her passion for zoology led her to consider becoming an architect.
She enrolled at Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture but eventually left her studies to pursue modeling. Her path to prominence began when a college photograph of her went viral leading photographers Gautam Rajadhyaksha and Farrokh Chothia to approach her for advertisements.