Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson from a scene in Bride & Prejudice.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Endhiran (Robot) to hit screens on October 1
The much awaited science fiction Tamil film Endhiran (along with its dubbed versions Robot in Hindi and Robo in Telugu), which was scheduled for release on September 24, has again been postponed for release on 1 October 2010, in view of the expected verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid issue. Yet another mega-budget movie Anjaane Anjaani, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, was also scheduled for September 24 release but now postponed for release on October 1 for the same reason.
The Tamil Sci-fi movie Enthiran, directed by S. Shankar and produced by Kalanidhi Maran and Hansraj Saxena starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the lead roles, has its soundtrack and background score by the Oscar-winning composer and music director A. R. Rahman. Though the initially planned production budget of Endhiran was Indian Rupees 150 crore (US$ 32.55 million), now it has been reported that the final budget of the film is Rs 190 crore, making it the most expensive Asian film ever made. The film is also slated to make the largest worldwide opening for an Indian film.
The release event of the Telugu version, Robo, was held in Hyderabad on 6 August 2010. The event was attended by Chiranjeevi, D. Ramanaidu, Mohan Babu, Srinu Vaitla, Kajal Aggarwal, Kamna Jethmalani and many other celebrities. The Hindi version, Robot, released in Mumbai on 14 August 2010 was attended by guests such as Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and many other celebs of Bollywood, apart from the film's sound mixing engineer and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty and Danny Denzongpa, who is also featured in the film.
Meanwhile there are reports of the fans of superstar Rajinikanth praying to make Endhiran a huge success, while Rajinikanth himself is planning to go for his usual pilgrimage to the Himalayas, a usual practice of Rajinikant before any of his films hit the screens.
The final stage of the sound mixing of Endhiran was completed on September 20, and A. R. Rahman, Resul Pookutty and the film's director Shankar and the technical team of Enthiran were present for the stage.
The film's soundtrack was released on 31 July 2010, coinciding with a promotional event held at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Co-hosted by Vivek and "Punnagai Poo" Geetha, the event was attended by Kalanithi Maran, S. Shankar, Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai, A. R. Rahman, Santhanam, Karunas, Vairamuthu, R. Rathnavelu, Anthony, Sabu Cyril, and Yogi B, as well as invited guests including Dayanidhi Maran, Radha Ravi, Vadivelu, Shriya Saran, Jayam Ravi, Ramya Krishnan, S. A. Chandrasekhar, Aishwarya and Soundarya Rajinikanth, Krish, and Sangeetha Arvind, while Silambarasan Rajendar, Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan, and Poorna made stage performances.
After the second day of release of Endhiran's soundtrack album, it became #1 on the Top 10 World Albums chart on iTunes in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, a first for an Indian album to reach the top spot.
Beautiful Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Media agencies carried the photo of beautiful Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan posing during a news conference to launch a new collection of Longines watches in Mumbai on November 20, 2008.
Machu Picchu, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World
The author of this magnificent photo says about Machu Picchu, "Personally, I think this is one of the most magical places on earth". Endhiran (Robot), directed by S. Shankar, featuring Rajanikanth and Aishwarya Rai will be the first Indian movie to be filmed at Machu Picchu, which is one of the many locations selected for the movie.
Aishwarya Rai, the eighth wonder of the world
Aishwarya Rai Photo Gallery | Funtasticus.com Humor & Fun Blog, originally uploaded by shimon.yamada.
“The eighth wonder of the world”, lyricist Vairamuthu aptly described her in the song "Poovukkul", and he seems to have had a vision of the future then. Currently Aishwarya Rai is working with Rajanikanth for the big budget Tamil film Endhiran (Robot), for the song sequence of which Aish and Rajanikanth have been at Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, is often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas" constructed around 1462. On July 7, 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of New Open World Corporation's New Seven Wonders of the World. Endhiran, directed by S. Shankar, will be the first Indian movie to be filmed at Machu Picchu.
In S. Shankar's Jeans (1998), the song "Poovukkul", written by Vairamuthu, dubbing Aishwarya Rai as the "eighth wonder of the world", comparing her to Seven Wonders of the World. Machu Picchu was not in the earlier Seven Wonders of the World and in fact, as she was praised, it is the eighth and befits her to be at Machu Picchu being filmed for Endhiran.
The 35-year-old former Miss India (1994), Aishwarya Rai (also known as Aish, Ash, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan), made her debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, Iruvar (1997) alongside Mohanlal. After her flop debut Hindi film Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, she turned again to Tamil films acting in S. Shankar's Jeans (1998), which also was her first commercial success. Aishwarya Rai’s next Tamil film was Kandukondain Kandukondain, alongside Mammooty, Ajith Kumar and Tabu.
Also Aishwarya Bachchan is co-starring with Vikram in Mani Ratnam's next film, Ashokavanam, also being made in Hindi with the title Raavan, with Abhishek Bachchan in the lead. In 2007 she appeared in Mani Ratnam's Hindi movie Guru.
Aishwarya Rai’s first commercially successful Bollywood film, which also had one of her most memorable performances, was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) opposite Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan. The story was spun around Rai's character, Nandini, who is forced to marry Devgan's character despite being in intimate love with another man (Salman Khan). She won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award for the film.
Another of her memorable performances was as the master thief Sunehri in the Bollywood blockbuster Dhoom 2 with Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Uday Chopra. The film also sparked a controversy for her kissing scenes with Hrithik Roshan. She is also set to appear opposite Hrithik Roshan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next film.
Her international projects include Bride and Prejudice alongside Martin Henderson, Mistress of Spices alongside Dylan McDermott, Provoked alongside Naveen Andrews, The Last Legion alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth and Thomas Sangster, and The Pink Panther 2.
Some of Aishwarya Bachchan’s hit films are Devdas, Dhoom 2, Mohabbatein, Guru and Jodhaa Akbar, and some of her flops are Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, Dil Ka Rishta, Kuch Na Kaho, Shabd, and Umrao Jaan.
Aishwarya Rai had previously dated Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi. On April 20, 2007 she married Abhishek Bachchan.
Aishwarya Rai appeared on the cover of Time magazine, Asia Edition in 2003 and in 2004 she was Time magazine’s one of the “World's 100 Most Influential People". In October 2004 a wax figure of Rai was put on display in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, London.
In 2005 Aishwarya Rai became a global brand ambassador of perfumes and cosmetics giant L'Oreal along with Andie Macdowell, Eva Longoria Parker and Penelope Cruz. Rai became the first Indian to appear on Late Show with David Letterman, and she was the first Bollywood star to appear on Oprah's "Women Across the Globe". In 2005, Harpers and Queen's list of “10 Most Beautiful Women in The World” ranked Aishwarya Rai at the 9th position.
In 2003 Aishwarya Rai became the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2009 Rai was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions to Indian cinema.
Enthiran (Robot) Exclusive HD Movie Trailer
The city of Chennai is getting ready, like the rest of the country and various other centers in the world where the fans of Rajnikant films are waiting for the release of the science fiction movie Enthiran (Robot). The tickets have been sold out within minutes of opening booking and fans are scrambling for tickets.
The film is full of special effects, animation and the latest technologies in Sci-Fi film production technology. Excepting a few scenes of dance and songs, the entire film has plenty of special effects. The producer Shankar has opted for 'Light Stage', a technique adopted in filming Hollywood blockbuster “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in which 80 lights were used to capture a series of shots. Additionally, “Animatronics”, a kind of mechanical puppetry, a never before attempted 3D animation is used in the climax of 'Enthiran', said Director Shankar to the media.
Written ten years ago by Shankar, and the production started three years ago after many hurdles and postponements in the production of the film, the mere thought of the scope of such a highly technical film stunned the Indian industry, especially in view of the huge production costs, about Rs 190 crores, according to the latest reports.
The film will not fall into the usual genres of a Shankar film as it is quite different for the Indian film audience, technicians, and the director Shankar himself. Shankar says, "It is a film which will have a linear narration, with plenty of action, and far fewer dialogues… Go watch the film without expectations, and you will be stunned. Go with expectations and you will enjoy the film."
Aishwarya Rai tops with Rs 10 crores for a film
The photo above shows Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at the recent Apsara Awards. Also, the author of this photo adds that hubby Abhishek Bachchan holds the Guinness World Record for the 'Most Public Appearances to Promote a Film' by traveling to seven cities in 12 hours to promote his movie 'Delhi-6'.
Wow! Star prices are shooting up! The latest buzz is that Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has been offered a whopping Rs 10 crores by Bobby Pushkarna, the producer of the National Award winning film ‘Page 3’. He has been chasing the 36-year-old actress for three months to sign her up for his next movie in the lines of Jag Mundhra’s ‘Provoked’.
Earlier there were reports that actress Kareena Kapoor has been paid Rupees seven crores for her upcoming film Golmaal 3, and even as the industry is abuzz about it, here comes the pricey news that Aishwarya Rai has beaten her in the paycheck game.
The South Indian Bunt community beauty Aishwarya Rai, who started her film acting career with her debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil biopic film Iruvar (1997) with the Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, is currently busy with Mani Ratnam's Ravan, Shankar's Robot (Endhiran), Vipul Shah's Action Replay and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish.
Aishwarya Rai is in the lead role of the Hindi and Tamil versions of the Mani Ratnam film Raavan/Ravan produced simultaneously, both written and directed by himself. The music is composed by Oscar (2009) and double Grammy (2010) winner A. R. Rahman. The film will also be dubbed into Telugu and other regional languages. The Hindi version stars Abhishek Bachchan, Vikram, Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi and Priyamani. The Tamil version of Raavana stars Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, Prithviraj, Karthik, Prabhu, Priyamani, Munna, Kishore and Vaiyapuri. Raavan/Ravan is reportedly a modern day interpretation loosely adapted from the Indian epic Ramayana. Shooting began at the end of October 2008 and the film went into post production in October 2009. Dancer Astad Deboo was roped in to choreograph a Tandav dance between Abhishek and Aishwarya. Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee is the costume designer for Aishwarya Rai in the film. Raavan has been shot in picturesque locations in India, including the forests of Kerala, and locations in Ooty, Jhansi, Kolkata, and locations in Maharashtra.
Endhiran (also spelt as Enthiran, a Tamil word meaning Robot), the forthcoming science-fiction Tamil language film being directed by S. Shankar and starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai, is being made at an expected cost of Rs 165 crores, one of the highest ever film budgets of the Indian film industry. Now the latest buzz is that he is planning to convert part of Endhiran into a 3D version as if the Avatar mania has affected our directors too. The much awaited Endhiran has choreography by Prabhu Deva, lyrics by Vairamuthu, art direction by Sabu Cyril and cinematography by Ratnavelu, all regulars with Shankar, who has also roped in Oscar winner Sound Remixing Engineer Resul Pookutty for sound effects. Endhiran, with its story set in the future, according to reports, will also showcase futuristic but imaginary and bizarre fashion fads, for which costume designers Manish Malhotra and Aalim have worked extensively on costumes Endhiran.
Action Replay is an upcoming Bollywood Indian film, based on a 1994 Gujarati Indian play of the same name, a time travel tale based on Mumbai in the fifties, being directed by Vipul Shah and starring Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Neha Dhupia and Randhir Kapoor in major roles. It is expected to release in 2010.
In Guzaarish (English: Request) directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Hrithik Roshan, who shares an enviable and amazing on-screen chemistry with Aishwarya Rai, performs the lead role with her, the other stars in major roles being Aditya Roy Kapoor and Monikangana Dutta. The story is spun around a married nurse (Aishwarya Rai) and a wheelchair-bound paraplegic patient (Hrithik Roshan), suffering from impairment of the motor and sensory nerve functions of the lower limbs, with whom she falls in love. Both Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai will sing a song for the movie, the first time Roshan sings for a movie. Earlier the accomplished screen couple Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai has starred in two movies together, Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa Akbar, which were huge hits. Rai has previously worked with Bhansali in two hit films, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002). However, it was in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, a love triangle starring Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan, that she came to the attention of Bollywood producers and directors with her performance in the film that won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Aishwarya Rai in David Letterman show - recap
In this video clip of Aishwarya Rai’s famous interview with David Letterman, he tries to make fun of Indian tradition, but he gets burned straight down with her curt, punchy, straight-on-the-face replies. After greeting Aishwarya Rai as the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World”, during the interview Letterman asks her:
David Letterman: “Do you live with your parents in India?”
Aishwarya Rai: “Yes, I do.”
David Letterman: “Is it common in India for elder children to live with their parents?”
Aishwarya Rai: “It’s common in India to live with your parents… it’s also common in India that we don’t need to take appointments with our parents to meet for dinner.”
Aishwarya Rai - the Longines Ambassador
Aishwarya Rai, the Longines Watches Ambassador, talking about time, says ‘Time is about Now’ and that she has enjoyed her 10 years with the Longines family. Not only watches, the beautiful blue-eyed Bollywood actress, described as the most beautiful woman in the world by the likes of Angelina Jolie, is the brand ambassador for many prestigious brands in the world. She is one of the highest paid, most accomplished and talented actresses India has ever had and she has appeared in many International films including Hollywood films. She has been a regular in International film festivals including Cannes Film Festival. She is one such film actress from India who has one of the largest international fan following.
Pink Panther 2 - Jean Reno & Aishwarya Rai
Berlinale 2009: Jean Reno & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at the premiere of Pink Panther 2.
Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra video mix
This video from YouTube shows the various poses of Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra Chopra, a remix from their published photos and wallpapers.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan LOREAL ... !!
In 2005 Aishwarya Rai became a global brand ambassador of L'Oreal along with Andie Macdowell, Eva Longoria and Penelope Cruz. The same year, a special Tulip in Netherland was named "Aishwarya Rai" after her.
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