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Aishwarya Rai made our hearts stop in a baby pink net sari and sleeveless silk blouse at the FICCI FRAMES Excellence Awards 2011 at Hotel Renaissance in Powai, Mumbai on Friday, March 25.

The 37-year-old Guzaarish star was honored with Decade of Global Achievement award for her contribution to Hindi cinema. The award was presented by Yash Raj Chopra.

Aishwarya’s delicate net saree had embroidery accent and embellishments. She paired it with a back baring matching silk blouse.

Aishwarya Rai at the FICCI FRAMES Excellence Awards 2011 held at Hotel Renaissance in Powai, Mumbai on Friday, March 25. Photo Credit: Sawfnews
She matched the delicate theme of her overall look with light jewelery – stud earrings, a diamond bracelet and statement rings on both her hands.

Her hair was styled straight with a side parting. She wore glossy pink lipstick complimenting her dress color; smoky eye makeup accentuating her green eyes.

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Director Madhur Bhandarkar, who is famous for making realistic movies with most of them being women centric, is again ready with another women centric script “Heroine”.

Heroine is a movie about the ups and downs of a heroine, and about having lonely times after the glamorous phase of life. Madhur’s first choice to play the lead in Heroine was Kareena Kapoor, but she refused the role. From then the rumors stared, some said Aishwarya Rai is his next choice some say it’s Katrina Kaif. However the truth behind can only be revealed by Madhur.

The truth is that no one has been finalized yet that’s why even Madhur is being diplomatic about the whole issue. However through our sources we understand that Aishwarya and Katrina both have been approached by Madhur, but talk to Madhur and he says something else – “I have not yet decided what I would be making next. It could be a comedy, drama, love story, action, just about anything. When my subject by itself is not yet finalized, how can I be going around closing on the actress who would be playing a part?”

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Meet the past achievers of the event that Petrochem’s bringing to Dubai
Aishwarya Rai won the GR8! Scroll of Honour for Cinema, Social Services and Global Recognition in 2010

We’re getting ready to celebrate women power (and beauty and strength) in style with the Gr8! Women Awards! The prestigious awards show, sponsored by Petrochem, makes its Middle East debut in Dubai on April 15, and we can be sure to meet the most incredible group of women achievers there.

Anu and Shashi Ranjan’s Indian Television Academy (ITA) instituted the awards over a decade ago to celebrate the strength of woman. And they are unique in the way that they honour women who have reached the pinnacle of success in their chosen field. From cinema and fashion to business and education, from IT to literature and across many many more vocations, the GR8! Women Awards have always recognised the best of the best. Here’s a look at some of the past award winners and how they were honoured to celebrate their achievements

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Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and one of the leading Bollywood actresses, delivered as many as 4 film releases in 2010. And if critical acclaim is anything to go by, then it has been a mixed year with its share of good and bad.
4 Aishwarya-starrer films that got released last year are ‘Raavan’, ‘Action Replayy’, ‘Guzaarish’ and ‘Endhiran’. Out of these 4, only 1 (Endhiran) could rock the box office primarily as it starred the Demi-God of South Rajinikanth. Aishwarya, despite putting up a brilliant portrayal, got largely overshadowed by the peerless prowess of Rajinikanth.
However, despite the fact that ‘Guzaarish’ did a miserable business in the cash windows, it brought laurels and trophies to Aishwarya for her winsome rendition of a doting nurse. For playing that role of Sophie, she raked up trophies for Best Actress (Critics) in Zee Cine Awards and Best Actress- Drama category at the recently concluded Stardust Awards.
But coming to two of the biggest duds of the year, her films ‘Action Replayy’ and ‘Raavan’ licked dust at box office and were torn apart by critics. Even her performance was not up to the mark in these two films for which she has been conferred the Ghanta Awards for Worst Actress of the year.

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Aishwarya Rai is awarded with the worst actress Ghanta award at the award show which is a rip-off of Hollywood’s Razzies.

Last year Aishwarya Rai had four films. If she won the hearts of her Tamil fans with her Endhiran opposite Rajinikanth, she also bowled over the audience with her beauty and acting in Guzaarish, but her Action Replayy was a big let-down and her detractors didn’t spare her for Raavan too.

So, the actress has been named the worst of the lot at the Ghanta Awards.

Ghanta Awards as the name suggests acknowledges the best of worst in Bollywood from Diwali 2009 – Diwali 2010. Who are the other winners:

Worst Actor – Himesh Reshammiya

Worst Breakthrough – Aditya Narayan (Shaapit)

Worst Couple – Uday Chopra and Priyanka Chopra (Pyaar Impossible)

Worst Director – Sajid Khan

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Now this is how it’s done! Aishwarya Rai is the Vogue India cover girl for their February 2011 issue and she looks flawless.

Rai is sporting a Roksanda Ilincic jacket that really makes a statement on the cover. The rest of the shoot was done on a yacht.

Doesn’t Aishwarya resemble Mila Kunis in this shot? When I saw the pic initially, I thought it was Mila and it took a while to realize that it was actually Aishwarya.

It’s hard to have an bad photo shoot when you are as beautiful as Aishwarya, but the styling is what makes the shoot pop and whoever styled Rai for Vogue India gets an A+ in my book.

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The man who swept the best actor award in many of the recent award events is nominated in Golden Kela Worst actor category. Shahrukh Khan’s acting in My Name Is Khan has earned him a worst actor nomination. Hrithik Roshan joins him in the league with his acting in Guzaarish. Aishwarya Rai is nominated for Golden Kela worst actress for her film Raavan.

Golden Kela Awards, organized by Random magazine, is a spin-off of Hollywood’s Razzies to honour the worst in Bollywood every year. The award, which is based on public poll, is in its third year. Last year Abhishek Bachchan was given the award for worst accent, and the actor was present at the award ceremony to accept the Dara Singh Award for Worst Accent for his attempt to speak in an American accent in Delhi 6.

Salman Khan’s blockbuster Dabangg has not been nominated under any category.

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Karan Johar explains why he was happy when Aishwarya Rai refused to do his first film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

“We have a great relationship. We always put up our feet and laugh at each other or talk about fun stuff”, says Karan Johar about his bonding with Aishwarya Rai. “We enjoy ‘intelligent analysis’ (which is my new phrase). I have known her for years and though we have never worked together, I know we will be fantastic together on celluloid as actor and director”.

Talking about her immense talent, KJo says “She does not just have beauty, but also drive. All sorts of criticism has come her way, but she has only worked harder – in films in Mumbai and down South, endorsements and appearances in India and abroad. She has made a huge brand of herself. Not many people.”

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IF LOOKS CAN KILL
Aishwarya Rai is quite a favourite of the fashion magazine Vogue. It seems yesterday only when we saw her on Vogue cuddled up with her handsome hubby Abhishek Bachchan for a sensuous cover. But it was seven months back and the actress is again hotting up the magazine with her drop-dead gorgeous looks.

If you liked her on the cover in black feathers, you will be awe-struck seeing her saucy in red for some stills of the photoshoot. She is all set to take your breath away.

The spread is also very special because it got five different men from Ash’s life to speak on her. Abhi says it was always perfect, “the minute we came together, we both knew that this was something for keeps. So, there wasn’t just this ‘one’ defining moment, it always felt perfect.”

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Fans of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai can celebrate. The buzz is that Bollywood’s golden couple plans to appear onscreen together again.

And this time, it would be a romantic comedy by director Rajkumar Santoshi. Santoshi, whose last film was the Katrina-Ranbir starrer Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani, is reportedly planning the comic flick, titled Ladies and Gentlemen with Abhi and Ash.

If all goes well, the film would go on the floors in the second half of this year. This would be the first time the real life couple will try their hands at comedy together. After Mani Ratnam’s Raavan flopped miserably, the couple has been really careful about being cast together. But we learnt that the script narrated by Santoshi appealed to the two stars.