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Last year it was dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit-Nene who received the prestigious award Padma Shri from the President of India and now this time around its going to be Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who would be honoured with this award.

Amitabh Bachchan speaks on this eve and feels proud of her bahu Aishwarya

“I would rush to be in time for the President’s Award Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, where Aishwarya will be honoured with the Padma Shri. It’s a moment of great pride for all of us.”

Further the legendry actor speaks, “She will become the 5th Padma Award in our household. My Father with the Padma Bhushan the first, then the Padma Shri for me, followed again by the Padma Bhushan to me some years later, Jaya’s Padma Shri and now Aishwarya’s. This must be a record for the country. 5 Padma Awards in one family. God has been very kind to us. The people of this land have been very kind to us. We are humbled and with bended knee and bowed heads acknowledge your affection and care and love.”

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Rai sprung to fame when she won the Miss World contest in 1994, which spawned a lucrative modelling and acting career. She made the transition to Hollywood with starring roles in Bride and Prejudice, Mistress of Spices, The Last Legion and more recently in Pink Panther 2 alongside Steve Martin.

She became the face of L’Oréal cosmetics in 2005 and is one of only two Indian film stars to have their waxwork image displayed at Madame Tussaud’s.

She formally became a member of Bollywood’s “royal family” when she married actor Abhishek Bachchan, the son of India’s most popular star Amitabh Bachchan.

Now she is set to join the ranks of Hollywood immortals and pop divas like Beyoncé Knowles, Elizabeth Taylor, and Diana Ross, who have all had “celebrity Barbies” modelled on them.

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Being in the same industry, this had to happen. And to tell the truth, tinsel town was waiting for this moment since the day Aishwarya Rai and Vivek Oberoi broke up. The ex-lovers bumped into each other at the recent Filmfare awards.

Though they tried obviously to avoid each other, Ash and Vivek had to come face-to-face. Ash and hubby Abhi arrived right when Vivek was giving bites to the media and posing for the cameras. But the Bachchan bahu, being the diplomacy queen.

She is, pretended that she hadn’t seen her ex lover at all. She in fact started chatting with her husband Abhishek. They sat inside their car till Vivek finished and went inside. Vivek, however, noticed this and was rather pissed off. He left the venue soon after.

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Aishwarya Rai undergoes training to sing classical Indian. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a thoroughly professional actress and she is ready to go the extra-mile to get under the skin of her character. For her upcoming movie, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will undergo training in Indian classical singing.

According to news reports, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is going to play the character of Sita in Mani Ratnam’s movie, Raavan. The movie is based on famous Indian epic, Ramayana.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be playing the character of Sita and hubby Abhishek Bachchan will play the character of Ram and Govinda will play the role of Hanuman.

In real life, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is quite a good singer but not good enough to sing classical songs. For her role, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wants to sing all the songs by herself. She will take lessons from a guru.

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After doing well in Bollywood, actress Aishwarya Rai has also managed to grab international attention with her international films like Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and the recently released Pink Panther 2.

Forbes magazine rated the actress as most bankable and ranked her ahead of veteran Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and actors like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan.Normally in the Indian film fraternity, the career graph shows a decline after tying knot, but the former Miss World proved it wrong.

Her stature in the film world bloomed to a great extent after her marriage with actor Abhishek Bachchan. Following her contribution to field of cinema, she was honored with the prestigious Padmashree award in January this year.

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On the promotional trail for her Hollywood flick Pink Panther 2, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan candidly told reporters at a press conference that her character in Mani Ratnam’s next release Ravana is not called Sita.

“The name of my character is not Sita. I am playing a woman who has similarities with the Sita of Ramayana,” she said but then refused to give further details about the production which also stars her husband Abhishek.

“I can’t give any details about Ravana at the moment. You will have to wait and watch. All I can say that it is an intense film set in today’s time and Mani has given a totally new perspective to the art of storytelling,” she said.

Ravana will be the fifth film where the husband–wife jodi will be shown on screen. When asked about her pairing opposite Abhishek, Aishwarya said they never played a conventional couple on-screen.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who played Paro in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, is following Pa B and hubby Abhishek’s example – by singing a song!

The musical duo of Vishal-Shekhar, who talked Abhishek into the groovy hip hop number Right Here Right Now, has also convinced Ash to sing for them.

“You won’t believe what an amazing voice Ash has! We’ve talked her into singing a song for us and we’re going to record it very soon,” says Shekhar. And is it in a movie that they’re composing for? “No, no. Right now, we’re only recording it, before Ash changes her mind! We’ll see what to do with it in the future,” he laughs.

And their hip hop number for AB Sr for the upcoming Aladdin – is it going to be in Hindi, English or a mix of both? “Sab kuch hai usme. Mr Bachchan has a phenomenal voice and there’s so much music in him,” replies Shekhar.