Tag: aishwarya (last 300)
It’s always the Taj
(Guardian) Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya, Kingsley’s wife to star in Shah Jahan biopic. (via @a_blank_slate)
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TMBWITW at Cannes
Aish on Tyra
Sellers owned the ‘Panther’
(NYT) The cast — John Cleese, Emily Mortimer, the Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan — suggests something a little more refined. Martin’s Clouseau is a skillful gloss, but lacks the layers of oratorical pretension Sellers put into it.
Dhaba bites
Divas squared
Ba-dumb. ba-dumb. dumb
(Suntimes) ‘Pink Panther 2’ seems reluctant to foreground Sonia very much. Rai is breathtaking in Bollywood films, where they devote a great deal of expertise to admiring beauty, but here’s she’s underutilized and too much in the background.
Red carpet in snow
Geography fail
(Fbook) An ad-hoc Facebook group called North Indian Desi uses a photo of Mangalorean actress Aishwarya Rai [because north = light-skinned?]
Aishwardena
‘The Mummy 4’: Aishwara awakens
(IMDB) Aishwarya Rai and Brendan Fraser star in ‘Singularity’ by Roland Joffe (‘City of Joy’): An Indian woman and a British army officer stage a bloody coup after being brought together by a mystical power.
Rai at Cannes
Cannes Caption Contest
‘Jodhaa Akbar’ pretty, slow
(NYT) ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ is on the scale of DeMille, with enough elephants and gold to sink the Titanic. Hrithik and Aishwarya are astonishing specimens of human beauty. The green-eyed Roshan is a charter member of the Bollywood six-pack-abs club.
Old-fashioned film stars
(NYT) Aishwarya Rai could have pursued the lead in Will Smith’s ‘Seven Pounds.’ Instead she returned to Bombay to celebrate her first married karva chauth, and starved with a smile... Hrithik Roshan turned down a bit part in ‘The Pink Panther.’
Have moustache, will travel
(NYT) Steve Martin grows a ‘stache, jams on banjo, plays character made famous by Peter Sellers, opposite Aishwarya Rai.
Gay prince to go on Oprah
(DNA) Manvendra Singh Gohil, gay prince of Rajpipla, will go on Oprah Oct. 26 to talk about HIV and gay rights. He’ll be the 2nd Indian guest after Aishwarya.
Aish to play Taj’s namesake
(Guardian) Aishwarya Rai will star in a film about the Taj Mahal in a film Ben Kingsley is producing. ‘The romance will include Shah Jahan’s isolation in a prison cell.’
Shetty’s mom runs the show
(Tabloid) “What Shilpa’s mother says, goes. It doesn’t matter what Shilpa’s feelings are. Come on, you are in your 30s, take charge of your life." Like Aishwarya’s Iron Mummy.
Aishwarya filming ‘Pink Panther 2’
Aishwarya Rai in pink panther2 movie with steve martin
House of wax
(Mangalorean) A model of Aishwarya Rai, borrowed from Madame Tussaud’s London location, will inaugurate India’s Independence Day festivities at the wax museum in Times Square.
Aish replaced by wax dummy
(Rediff) Madame Tussauds at Times Square will get a wax figure of Aishwarya Rai. It has been cast in the lead for ‘Dhoom 3,’ and moviegoers won’t know the difference.
Lobbying to be the new Seventh Wonder
(Economist) Aishwarya Rai oversaw the launch of a balloon exhorting people to vote for the Taj Mahal as one of the new Seven Wonders. It was tethered to the site, to the horror of aesthetes.
The Last Legion large trailer
(Worstpreviews Video) Large version of ‘The Last Legion’ trailer with Aishwarya hurling short swords.
National Spelling Bee enters final stages
(WaPo) 13-year-old Samir Patel from Texas is back for the 5th year. His grandfather, visiting the U.S. for the first time, sat in the front row. 10-year-old Aishwarya Pastapur of Kansas wore a T-shirt with the words “mishpelt werds eeritate me."
Aishwarya means freedom from bondage
(Pic) This yoga pamphlet explains that ‘Aishwarya’ means freedom from bondage. Clearly someone’s seen KANK ;) [Aishwarya’s future fiance horrified at wife Rani Mukherjee in bondage-a-go-go] [via]
PIL against Aishwarya’s marriage with tree
(Monstersandcritics) A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Patna High Court against Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai for marrying trees to overcome astrological differences with her fiance Abhishek Bachchan.
Mama’s girls
(Forbes) Shilpa Shetty, like Aishwarya Rai, famously never traveled without her mother to shoots before “Big Brother."
Superstitious peepul
Kiss me not
(Reuters) An Indian lawyer filed a criminal case against Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan for a kiss in ‘Dhoom 2’ because it ‘lowered the dignity of Indian women.’ Damn right, that was a weak kiss. (thanks, DD + t-hype)
‘Dhoom 2’ reviewed by the Gray Lady
(NYT) Embraces every clich�, style (except naturalism) and half-naked body. Roshan whips off his shirt. The camera comically lingers on Aishwarya. Unself-conscious, slightly cartoonish but giddy, slick.