This year, to coincide with its 21st anniversary, NDTV also honoured Indian icons of the last 21 years - among them, Amitabh Bachchan.

On his blog, Bachchan wrote about the ceremony, which he attended with his wife, Jaya, and his daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

“NDTV Indian of the Year acknowledging 21 years of the existence of the channel and simultaneously acknowledging Indians that have been an inspiration for the country in these 21 years!!”

“Young Rukhsana, the teenaged girl from Kashmir who when attacked by a terrorist, snatched his own weapon and killed him. Aradhna, the brave Mother of her daughter who after being molested by a police officer committed suicide and is fighting for 19 years now to get justice when she discovered that the officer had been let off with a warning and nothing more. Executives and bureaucrats and finance wizards that have helped in forming the modern image of progressive India.
“Ministers, politicians that have shaped well. Filmmakers and twitter artists - Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya, Priyanka, Ranbir, proud parents Rishi and Neetu, AR Rahman.

Sportsmen - Sachin, Dhoni, Saina Nehwal. LK Advani and Chidambaram. LK Advani presents me mine, and admits on stage that he has not missed a single film of mine from the very first Saat Hidustani, for which he had been dragged to by my Mother - Advani having had a very close relationship with our family since very early years - right down to Paa !! I am so humbled. So many luminaries in the audience.”

“The most powerful in the country in politics and the services. The three Army chiefs, and the people that matter in India’s presence, all mingling in a vast multitude of acknowledgment to those deserving candidates in the last 21 years of the country.”

And in the middle of all this - Sachin playing the one-dayer with South Africa in Gwalior creates history by being the first human in the universe to have scored 200 runs in an ODI and India beats So Africa by a huge margin to retain their world position. Dhoni on teleconference from the cricket venue, including me as one of his inspirations in life aaahhhh !! Just so much praise humbling humbling.”

“I send Sachin a congratulatory sms and he responds back with his customary thanks and love …….”

Bollywood is on high alert! One of its biggest stars, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has fallen ill while shooting her latest movie “Action Replay.”
The model and actress has spent the last week on Manori Island working with Vipul Shah on the movie that tells the story of a time-traveling man, played by Akshay Kumar.
But all of a sudden, while shooting a scene, Ash got sick and had to take antibiotics. But it seems like Mrs Bachchan ate the medicine like candy and soon had a bad reaction. Her lips got swollen and her fever worsened.
But what to do when you have to finish a movie? Well, Ash is a true professional and decided to simply cover her face with a veil and continue shooting! Interesting! No rest for this L’Oreal girl!
“The reaction could’ve either been because of the antibiotics, which she took in excess as she had to finish the shooting yesterday as well as fulfill the next important commitment of being the keynote speaker at a women’s summit today or it could also be an insect sting,” Aishwarya’s spokesperson said.
But unfortunately the star didn’t get any better despite all the antibiotics and today her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, had to accept an award for her at the summit.
Poor Ash! We hope she gets better soon!

Guess what! Mrs Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who has the most envying career in Bollywood and has been married to a man from the ace film family once wanted to become a doctor. She had planned to study medicine but the twist was introduce in her story when she was crowned Miss World.

All her medicine fever went down when she was flooded with films offer. Like most of the actresses she too could not resist the ostentatious life in films.

Abhishek Bachchan has repeatedly been referred to, by well wishers, as the “dark horse” of Bollywood. Gossip hawks love spinning endlessly speculative yarns on him. He is the punching bag of Doubting Thomases: How is he ever going to live up to his parents’ fame? Will he ever be able to hog the limelight from his internationally famous wife? Has he? Hasn’t he? Will he? Won’t he?

Questions, assumptions and speculations apart, Small B is as enigmatic as his Big Dad. And, as is the norm with the Lions and the Bachchans, Abhi always moves in groups — preferably with those of the same surname. He is spotted at functions towering over his petite mother, Jaya Bachchan; he has almost always been seen hand-in-hand with his Beauty Queen wife, Aishwarya Rai; he is also seen walking shoulder-to-shoulder with his larger-than-life father, Amitabh Bachchan. Whatever/wherever he is, Abhishek has always been the object of focus of every snap-happy scribe.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is considered by many trade analysts as the most bankable female actor in Bollywood. Ash is not in the Hall of Fame for being the bahu of India’s most celebrated superstar. Nor for being wife to one of Bollywood’s most ambitious superstar aspirants. The Bachchan canopy just adds to the allure of this ethereal beauty, who has won for herself the tag of being India’s first international superstar.

Click on, for some unique snaps of the New Age Bachchans!

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan seems to have turned workaholic. She has been shooting for Vipul Shah’s forthcoming flick ‘Action Replay’ at Manori Island for the last few days. Besides, she also has to finish some important sequences. However, she suddenly suffered high fever and a severe throat infection just before reaching the set. In spite of all this, she was not willing to cancel the day’s shoot. In fact, she did go to the set in a ferry from Versova to Manori Island after taking antibiotics. And, the actress got busy shooting for her part.

Everything was fine until lunchtime when suddenly she felt her lips starting to puff up and getting swelled. This may be due to the reaction of antibiotics, which she took in excess. After all, she had to finish the shooting as well as to fulfill the next important commitment of being the keynote speaker at a women’s summit, it is learnt. Anyway, this isn’t fair for the Bachchan bahu , who is the vital link of the entire family these days. Her illness causes a great concern among Bachchans, we are told.

Vipul Shah has once again returned to his favorite hero Akshay Kumar with Aishwarya Rai for his film Action Replay and hopes to create magic on celluloid after hitting of Salman Khan-Asin starrer London Dreams at the box office.

Akshay Kumar of bollywood who plays the main lead in Vipul Shah’s upcoming flick Action Replay opposite Aishwarya Rai, has worn a wig especially designed by Hollywood make- up artist Paul Pattison to give him a genuine 1970s look in the film.

Rest assured that Aishwarya Rai isn’t going bald. It’s just that she would be seen donning a special wig designed by Hollywood make-up artist Paul Pattison for some portions of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s film Action Replayy.

Reason? Since the movie’s story progresses backwards in time, Shah wanted a unique look for the leading stars Aishwarya and Akshay Kumar for the sequences that are set in the 1970s.

After much discussion with the creative team and the leading pair, Shah roped in Paul Pattison since he didn’t want Ash and Akki to wear tacky wigs. Pattison has considerable experience working in a number of Hollywood films, including ‘Mission Impossible II’ and ‘Braveheart’.

In fact, we hear that Pattison is paying meticulous attention to the looks and hairdos of the extras and junior artists, too, on the sets at Nitin Desai studios in Karjat.

‘Action Replay’ will have Ash and Akki in a variety of looks.

After leading Big Screen,Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is contemplating becoming a chat show host after her husband Abhishek and her super star father in law Amitabh Bachchan.The Discussion for will Aishwarya host a show or not? is not decided yet.The more expectations are that Bollywood Queen Aishwarya demand’s heavy price money to host the show.The show will be aired on Colors channel.It’s now depend on Aishwarya that will she host a show or not.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may have chosen to take it easy post her marriage, but a recent development in her career has made all those speechless who feel that the beautiful actress’ career is no longer on an upswing.

She has broken the record of Kareena Kapoor with her whopping ten crores contract for her latest film. Earlier, this honor was with Kareena Kapoor with a figure of seven crores.

The film is to be produced Bobby Pushkarna, of the critically acclaimed film ‘Page 3′. Pushkarna was keen on cast Ash only and was determined to shelve the project if the lady did not give an affirmative nod. Finally, after a three-month long chase, Pushkarna was able to persuade her to do his film.

The deal has not yet been finalized in pen and paper but both the parties seem positive.

The two most enigmatic women in the Hindi film industry Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Katrina Kaif have supposedly turned a complete tumble toss as far as choosing roles are concerned. It is reported that both the actresses have opted for roles which are modern versions of the ladies from the Indian Epics ‘Ramayan’ and ‘Mahabharata.’ The two ladies are to be seen in roles which they have never been seen before.

Ash for example has been cast in the film ‘Raavan’ in a different version of the most worshipped and pious Sita even though her name is not Sita in the film. However the modern twist to the tale is that her character is attracted to the Raavan like character played by hubby Abhishek in the film. Her husband’s role in the film is played by a very well known face amongst art movie lovers Vikram.
Katrina on the other hand plays a politician in the film ‘Rajneeti’ where her character is projected differently and it is not clear as to whose character she plays in the film which is based on the ‘Mahabharata’ albeit with a twist. The modern take on this gigantic political drama has been earlier tried in a film called ‘Kalyug’ which had great stars like Rekha and Shashi Kapoor as the main protagonists. ‘Rajneeti’ is a film by Prakash Jha who has ventured into the epic culture where not many directors want to tread due to the intricacies involved in such projects.

The most enigmatic representation of these classics were on television a few years ago with a marathon success rate. What remains to be seen is how the modern version is accepted!