Alluring

Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai has been a Bollywood star for more than a decade, and now the rest of the world is waking up to her charms. The stunning 35-year-old model turned actress was crowned Miss World in 1994 and has a string of films to her name, including Devdas and roles in hits such as Bride and Prejudice and The Last Legion. In 2007 she hit the headlines when she married Bollywood actor and frequent co-star Abhishek Bachchan, son of Indian megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
Aishwarya is making headlines these days as she is appearing on the big screen in the Middle East in her latest role in The Pink Panther 2 opposite Hollywood heavyweights Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Andy Gracia and Emily Mortimer. Talking about her role in the Pink Panther 2 she said, “Well, being bad has never been so good.” “My first reaction, after coming to know that I would be in the film, was a smile because that’s the feeling the film evokes. What happened with Pink Panther is I got married that year in the middle of making movies. I was committed to two so I had to keep a couple of months off towards the end of the year so I squeezed in Pink Panther. My husband was like ‘you have to do this. It’s easy, it’s a no-brainer’. It’s not an intense acting piece, it’s like a holiday, it’s not exhausting at all and we’ve all grown up on it. You know your nieces and nephews are going to laugh and have a good time watching it and tomorrow, my kids will too.”“It was just a laugh and I was happy to be part of it. There was a great cast who all have serious careers and yet here they are being silly and having fun but it was tough running in stilettos. I wouldn’t recommend it.” “I enjoy action. I did a lot of action in The Last Legion. Then I did two movies in India which had a lot of action as well.”