Young Aishwarya Rai for MOVIE magazine

 A cover shoot for MOVIE magazine, young Aishwarya Rai got the cover in the first year of her career. 

Aishwarya Rai in Hum Kisise Kam Nahin: Looking Gorgeous in a Terrible Film

Aishwarya Rai in Hum Kisise Kam Nahin: Looking Gorgeous in a Terrible Film - this could be a sub category in the career of Ash. Be it Aur Pyar Ho Gaya, Umrao Jaan, Hum Kisise Kam Nahin, Mistress of Spices or Jeans, she's looked staggeringly beautiful in essentially awful films. The learning curve for the model turned superstar has been a bumpy road. 

 

Aishwarya Rai in Dil ka Rishta (2003)

Aishwarya Rai in Dil ka Rishta (2003). Shot in 2002, Ash's home production, she looks so good. 

TBT: 1998: Aishwarya Rai, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit at Filmfare Awards

TBT: 1998: Aishwarya Rai, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit at Filmfare Awards 

Ash presented the Best Actress trophy to Madhuri Dixit for Dil Toh Paagal Hai.

Aishwarya Rai poses for Femina magazine

 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's look at Filmfare Awards Night: The first sighting of Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Aishwarya Rai in 2006. This was her look in Mani Ratnam's Guru. 

It was the first time I remember Ash wearing 'that new designer' Sabyasachi - who had done all her looks in the film. 

Sadly, as gorgeous as these pictures are - a fake AI iteration 

Below clip you can see what Ash really looked like - flawless at Filmfare. 

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Cannes 2026

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Cannes 2026. 

The face of Indian cinema... 
 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Cannes 2026

Like her, or any superstar's career, a lot of hits and misses. At least not a complete disaser as 2024... She's still got 'the face'... Everything else has been questionable. 

Bless stylist Mohit Rai for... trying.

Aishwarya Rai in Cannes over the years

 Aishwarya Rai in Cannes over the years.... 

Aishwarya Rai in Devdas: The Neeta Lulla

 

The 2002 Hindi film Devdas (directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit) was released in India on 12 July 2002.

Aishwarya Rai in Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai

 Aishwarya Rai in Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai 

Aishwarya Rai in Taal and Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam

 Aishwarya Rai in Taal and Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam

 1999 was Ash's mega year. 

Shobhaa De by Gautam Rajadhyaksha

Shobhaa De by Gautam Rajadhyaksha 

Sure they were cousins - but she was also muse, model and a mother. 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's regal gait The Reign and Supremacy of Ash as Queen in PS1 and PS2

 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's regal gait The Reign and Supremacy of Ash as Queen in PS1 and PS2

Aishwarya Rai at Cannes

 

Aishwarya Rai as a young model for Saris

Early days, I remember cutting out Garden sari ads to have this perfect face on my walls. 

The staggeringly beautiful young Aishwarya Rai as India's youngest supermodel. 

Aishwarya Rai on the red carpet

 

Aishwarya Rai in her first Hindi film Aur Pyar Ho Gaya

 

Aishwarya Rai in her first Hindi film Aur Pyar Ho Gaya 

Aishwarya Rai in Taal (1999)

 

Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai: Bollywood's favourite unrequited love story

In real life and in reel life, they just weren't meant to be. She gave him class, he gave her sex appeal } remember reading that phrase?! 

Salman Khan was 8 years older than Aishwarya Rai. Their on and off screen magic was something else. Just wasn't meant to be... 

Aishwarya Rai attends Neeta Lulla's store opening

Aishwarya Rai attends Neeta Lulla's store opening

 

Aishwarya Rai appears on the Tyra Banks show: TBT to 2009

 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, 36,  appears on the Tyra Banks show: TBT to 2009!

The perfection of Rekha in Silsila

 

 

Released on the summer of 1981, 14 August to be precise, Rekha, then 26, was at the absolute peak of her prowess and peacock-ian beauty when the affairs-of-the-heart, musical melodrama Silsila released.

Empowered by fellow aesthete producer/director Yash Chopra, with the camera work of Kay Gee capturing Rekha in all her polished glory, no leading lady commanded screen space with such ease and elegance. Not a strand of hair out of place, her impeccable fashion (which deteriorated dramatically by the time Khoon Bhari Maang and Geetanjali released!), has to be studied as one does an unholy book of haute Hindi film fashion. 

Rekha when reigned in by writers and directors she admired -- Yash Chopra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar -- didn't go completely off the rails. Lesser men who didn't have the courage to edit Re' fell folly to her over-the-top sartorial shenanigans. Yash Chopra had a more deft hand; be it Silsila or Faasle, Rekha looked polished, refined... just damn near perfect.

Rekha with Yash Chopra on the sets of Faasla - a rare pic