When Bollywood Meets Hollywood

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, an internationally renowned Indian actress who is often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world, is finally setting foot in Hollywood.

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The actress has been sounded out on a story which will co-star Hollywood legend Meryl Streep. Titled Chaos, the film is an American production of Colin Serreau’s 2002 French movie.

Says a source,

“They ran the concept with Meryl and Ash and they were game. They need to Americanize the theme because Chaos was a very French movie. But, yes, in principle Ash is on for this film.”

Ash says she’s asked for the final draft of the script.

“Now the time factor has to be worked out. The time they want is devoted to Mani (Ratnam) Sir’s project. New dates have to be worked out. There’re so many projects that I want to do but because of the dates or a delay I can’t. There are only that number of assignments I can take on. I’ve never done more work than I can do. I never can.”

Who is Aishwarya Rai:

Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine biologist, and Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her family belongs to the Bunt community of Mangalore. She has one elder brother, Aditya Rai, who is an engineer in the merchant navy and also co-produced one of Rai’s movies, Dil Ka Rishta (2003).

After she was born, her parents moved to Mumbai where she attended the Arya Vidya Mandir high school in Santa Cruz. Rai then entered Jai Hind College at Churchgate for one year, and then moved to Ruparel College in Matunga to finish her “HSC” studies. She did well in school and planned to become an architect.

She can communicate in several languages, including Tulu, Hindi, English, Marathi and Tamil .While pursuing her studies in architecture, Rai began modeling on the side. In the 1994 Miss India contest, she won the second place (behind Sushmita Sen), and went on to win the Miss World title the same year, where she also won the Miss Photogenic award. She abandoned her studies after winning the pageant and spent one year reigning as Miss World in London. Rai then started working as a professional model and then moved on to her current profession as an actress.

Rai has previously dated Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi. She is now married to Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan. The wedding took place on April 20, 2007.

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source: Ash to play sex worker in H’wood flick [the times of india]

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