Showing posts with label Aishwarya Rai. Show all posts
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Aishwarya Rai to play fabled Taj Mahal beauty
Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai will play the role of Queen Mumtaz in a film on the Taj Mahal -- the white marble mausoleum built in memory of the fabled 16th-century beauty.
"I had spoken to Aishwarya last year while we were working on 'The Last Legion' and she very generously agreed to do the movie with me," said British actor Ben Kingsley, who is co-producing the film.
"The romance will also include Shah Jehan's abject isolation for years in a prison cell," after the death of his beloved wife giving birth to their 14th child, he told the Times of India.
Kingsley will play the lead role of Emperor Shah Jahan in the movie, which will be shot next year in Agra where the Taj Mahal stands on the banks of the river Yamuna.
Kingsley -- born Krishna Bhanji to a father of Indian extract and an English mother -- is best known on the sub-continent for the Academy-award winning 1982 hit 'Gandhi'.
Emerald-eyed Rai, who played Indian warrior Mira in The Last Legion, is already in the role of a Mughal princess in Bollywood film Jodha Akbar, which is due for release in January 2008.
Beauty Queen Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan or Aishwarya Bachchan (Birthname: Aishwarya Rai; Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World contest in 1994.
Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) opposite Mohanlal. She had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998), and came to the attention of Bollywood in the Hindi movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award, and she successfully performed in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare. Since then, she has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and English, including the international productions Bride & Prejudice (2003), Mistress of Spices (2005), and The Last Legion (2007) in English.
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