Aishwarya Rai Bachchan completes a decade of association with the prestigious Cannes Film Festival this year. Ever since Ash walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, she has been under the scanner for her choice of outfits, hair and make-up. We take a look at Ash’s Cannes journey so far…

Aishwarya Rai made her first appearance at Cannes in 2002 to promote Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, wearing a golden yellow sari. It looks like she was hit by a gold rush and the loud make up just made it worse.

The proverb “All’s well That Ends Well” is aptly fitting actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. 2010 was a four release year for the actress, with films like Raavan, Robot, Action Replayy and Guzaarish.
Buzz up!
When looked upon critically at all the four film, Robot was a commercially successful film, while Aishwarya was critically liked by people in Guzaarish. Raavan and Action Replayy, got un-noticed getting a lot disappointment both to the actress and her fans as well.

The actress even managed to bag an award for the performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish. Hmm!! looks like

She even managed to pick up awards for her performance in this Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. It was a ‘all is well’ year for Ash.

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai had an eventful 2010 which saw four of her films getting a release. Though Aishwarya didn’t get the kind of box office response that she deserved, she starred in 3 magnum opuses if money is anything to go by.
For instance, she starred in the film ‘Robot’ or ‘Endhiran’ that was the most expensive film made in India. Made at a cost of over Rs 150 crore it paired Aishwarya up with the South Indian Demi-God Rajinikanth. And this film did a staggering business at box office and at some parts (like Chennai) the theatre owners had to run early morning (3 am) shows to meet the sky-high demand. The only glitch is that Aishwarya was basically a candy floss in that film which was basically a Rajinikanth bonanza.
Apart from ‘Robot’, Aishwarya Rai starred in another expensive film in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan.’ ‘Raavan’ was the 2nd most expensive film of the year and was inspired from the Hindu epic ‘Ramayan.’ However, despite all the hype and hoopla, this ‘Raavan’ was beheaded by critics and audience.
Aishwarya also starred in the 3rd most expensive film of 2010 in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Guzaarish.’ Made at a budget of over Rs 50 crore, this film starring Hrithik Roshan and Ash was heavily appreciated by the critics. The film, indeed, was poetically beautiful with a poignant storyline and masterly cinematography. But unfortunately, ‘Guzaarish’ was a dud at the box office.

Actress Aishwarya Rai walked away with the special jury award for her performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish at the Ponds Gold Radiance Zee Cine Awards 2011 held in Singapore.

Aishwarya was honoured on Friday as the best actress (female) jury choice for her outstanding performance in the sensitive and challenging role of Sofia in Guzaarish that also starred Hrithik Roshan as a paraplegic patient.

The actress also performed at the event on hit numbers from Raavan, Action Replayy and Robot.

The award comes right after winning a gong for cinematic excellence for her work for the same film at the recently held Apsara Awards.

Actress Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan has been under the weather since the past few days. Ash apparently has been down with viral fever and flu, but despite her ill-health, the actress has been working towards keeping her commitments. According to a source, Ash was advised two to three weeks of bed rest to recuperate completely.

“The fever, combined with exhaustion due to her hectic work schedule, has taken a toll on her health. But she just refused to back out of her pending work commitments,” revealed the source. So, inspite of running a high fever, Ash shot for a magazine cover with hubby Abhishek Bachchan. “Aishwarya really put up a brave front during the shoot. Having Abhishek by her side helped her feel much better. Abhi, on his part, tended to Ash throughout as a dutiful husband,” confirmed another source.

The actress, later in the day, even attended an awards function where she won an award for cinematic excellence for her performance in Guzaarish. An overwhelmed Ash dedicated the award to all the “Ethans and Sofias who fight a battle daily and smilingly.”

She added, “It’s touching to receive this honour.” She even thanked film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for making her such an important part of his cinematic journey. “From Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to Devdas and now Guzaarish, I thank Sanjay for believing in me as an actress,” she added. Despite her ill-health, the actress also flew to Singapore where she is expected to perform at the Zee Cine Awards tonight.

Ex-flames Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan usually try their best to avoid each other, however, at times best efforts goes up in smoke. That’s exactly what happened recently at the 17th Annual Star Screen Awards, when Aishwarya went into the lounge area (hang-out place for celebrity performers) and had to hurriedly come out as her ex Salman was also chilling out there.

However, even after spotting Salman, Ash, well-known for maintaining her composure at all times, quickly got over the initially shock of finding Salman at the lounge and moved out as soon as possible to avoid potentially awkward situation.

Ash and Salman had started dating after meeting on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.’ For two years (1999-2000) everything went well, however, in 2002, the IT couple of Bollywood broke up in midst of lots of controversy and drama.

What exactly transpired at award function
Reportedly, Aishwarya ended up reaching backstage earlier and was waiting for her name to be called for the performance, when she suddenly decided to wait in the lounge.

On her way to lounge, she met Vidya Balan and they exchanged pleasantries for a while.

“After her conversation Ash went inside, glanced around and was seen walking out of the room swiftly. Ash stood quietly outside and refused to budge till her performance was announced,” said an eye-witness.

Apparently, sudden change in Ash’s behavior surprised many; however, everybody soon found the reason, when they spotted Salman strolling out of the lounge area.

Salman’s reaction
Bachchan clan’s bahu Ash might have felt awkward after suddenly spotting Salman, however, as per sources, Salman did not even flinch when he saw Ash moving into the lounge, igniting speculations that he truly has moved on.

“Salman has moved on and has no issues about bumping into anyone anywhere. He was relaxing, when he spotted Ash, he appeared unmoved and continued with his conversation,” revealed an eye-witness.

It seems like only Aishwarya needs to work on her ex-related issues as avoiding someone, who is part of the industry is a tough thing to do.

In an online survey, actor Aishwarya Rai was voted as the Best Actress of 2010 for her performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish.

Aishwarya plays Hrithik Roshan’s nurse in the film. Out of 10,867 votes cast, Ash got 77% of the votes, more than the likes of Kajol (My Name
is Khan), Katrina Kaif (Raajneeti) and Vidya Balan (Ishqiya).

Kajol was the runners up with 17 per cent votes while Katrina Kaif bagged 3 per cent of the total votes. Vidya Balan, too, got 3 per cent.

Whenever Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai paired up for a film, they became the most talked about on-screen couple and this year too it was no different for the film ‘Guzaarish’. Sanjay Leela Bhansali brought these two stars of the industry together for the third time, but apart from that what more connection do these two actors hold in the year 2010. Here is a look at three films that promised and delivered grandness and good cinematography but dunked in the box office.

‘Ravaan’: Santosh Sivan and V Manikandan helmed the department of cinematography for this Mani Rantam film and it was brilliant. The waterfall the lucid clear look for Aishwarya in contrast to the dark murky background for Abhishek’s character, but the film just took a huge plunge in the box-office.
‘Guzaarish’: The grandeur of a film is something that one can look forward to a Sanjay Leela Bhansali flick and in this Hrithik –Aishwarya flick the audience got that from the director of photography Sudeep Chaterjee. The color palate was there, the lavishness in the showing of the film was there so were the copy form the foreign flicks in the frames. But the film didn’t have the strength survive in the box-office.
‘Kites’: This Hrithik Roshan film had people talking about its cast (read actress Barbara Mori) long before the film hit the theatre. But even though the film failed to soar in the sky of the box-office the majestic locales, the beauty of Barbara and the disheveled look of Hrithik’s didn’t go unnoticed as Ayananka Bose the director of photography caught it for the film and recreated Anurag Basu’s vision.
Unfortunately, this year while both Hrithik and Aishwarya can celebrate release of multiple films, they both also list in two of the most good looking yet bumped films of the year.

2010 was a year that saw the maturing audience preferring content over stars. When small-budget films and intellectual scripts saw thumbs up from the public, some over hyped films were bloopers. Here’s a look at 5 disaster films of 2010:
1. Kites: Riding on huge hype and hoopla, ‘Kites’ came bringing in a smouldering chemistry between Greek God Hrithik and the Mexican curry Barbara, but dearth of a good screenplay made the film lick dust at box office. It was one of the biggest duds of 2010.

2. Raavan: Aishwarya Rai teamed up with hubby Abhishek for the umpteenth time but despite being visually opulent, the sluggishness of the film stamped a flop all over director Mani Ratnam. A big disappointment!
3. Veer: Salman Khan took the pen for this one, grew long tresses and mingled history with love to portray the story of a ‘Veer’ warrior. But unfortunately, no audience felt ‘Veer’ enough to watch this one. But, later on, Salman compensated by digging gold with ‘Dabangg’.
4. Guzaarish: Another masterly and poetic work from Sanjay Leela Bhansali and received great accolades from critics. And with Hrithik and Aishwarya (the hit Jodi of Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa Akbar), the film was destined to be a mega hit. However, astonishingly, audience showed no interest in watching this one.
5. Khelein Hum Jee Jaan sey: Acclaimed director Ashutosh Gowariker enlivened the pages of history once again as he dressed up Abhishek Bachchan in the dhoti-kurta of freedom fighter Surya Sen. But the response that it got at the cash counters was colder than mere lukewarm.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has indeed been one of the busiest stars in tinsel town this year. She’s amongst those stars who have really managed to grab the top most slots in tinsel town despite having more flops amongst her releases than hits or even super hits.

Right from the movie Raavan, Ash has been given the thumbs down by the critics and the audiences. The block buster Robot did create an amazing frenzy all over but it was soon over. Then came Action Replayy which did not fare quite well.

Her latest release Guzaarish was also not well received by the audiences though she did receive some appreciation for the matured role of Sophia that she portrayed in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali flick.

Aishswarya ‘s forth coming projects may take some time to take off as right now she is going to go off to Dubai to attend Masala Awards night in The Palm, Atlantis. She is also to go off to some undisclosed destination for the New Year with hubby Abhishek and they are to celebrate the New Year there.

However, Ash has a very interesting project coming up with the ace Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh titled Debi Choudhurani. The movie is going to be the third with the director after Raincoat and Choker Bali.

Well wish Ash all the best in the coming year and if you’re eager to see her then just wait for the 17th of December when she’ll be in Dubai for the Masala Awards Night!