By Jilawatan

It didn’t take her long to become a L’Oreal girl. Freida Pinto’s instant rise to international fame and a cosmopolitan face made her the obvious choice for a L’Oreal beauty ambassador and soon she was in the league of international beauties like Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Cruz and of course, Aishwarya Rai.

Freida is not doing any Bolly project as she is concentrating on her international profile, starting work on Woody Allen’s movie with Hollywood stars such as Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Conversely, the Bachchan bahu, Aishwarya, is still busy with lots of plush Bollywood projects; after all she owes her success to Hindi films. To date, each beauty has had her own stage to shine on, until now that is.

By Jilawatan

Or so say reports. It is being said that a big brand that has Ash representing them overseas and Sonam in the Indian market, is also signing Freida Pinto as another of their international models. If this is true, then Freida will be walking the red carpet at all major international film festivals next year with Aishwarya for company. Freida, who has bagged films with Hollywood biggies Julian Schnabel and Woody Allen, is also expected to be on the jury of some of the biggest film festivals in 2010. Sonam on the other hand may be the face of yet another watch brand for the Indian market.

By Jilawatan

The lukewarm response to her recent Hollywood release Pink Panther-II has had Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (35) conceding her position as the most popular face of Bollywood.

In the West to the new international craze 24-year-old Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), who according to reliable sources has been signed for two films — one with Woody Allen and the second with Julian Schnabel.

Freida, who is said to have earned over two million pounds, overtaking Bollywood beauties like Aishwarya, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif is also, according to a world film distributor, being wooed to walk the red carpet at Cannes in May 2009.

On the Bollywood front, Kareena Kapoor (28) has nudged Aishwarya Rai Bachchan out of the Filmfare Top-10 Power list.

But a producer from Chennai confirms that Ash is still the highest paid Indian heroine and has reportedly been paid a fee of Rs six crore for Shankar’s Robot, where she is cast opposite Rajnikant.

By Jilawatan

The lukewarm response to her recent Hollywood release Pink Panther-II has had Aishwarya Rai Bachchan(35) conceding her position.

As the most popular face of Bollywood in the West to the new international craze 24-year-old Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) who according to reliable sources has been signed for two films-one with Woody Allen and the second with Julian Schnabel.

Freida, who is said to have earned over two million pounds, overtaking Bollywood beauties like Aishwarya, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif is also, according to a world film distributor being wooed to walk the red carpet at Cannes in May 2009.

On the Bollywood front, Kareena Kapoor (28) has nudged Aishwarya Rai Bachchan out of the Filmfare Top-10 Power list. But a producer from Chennai confirms that Ash is still the highest paid Indian actress and has reportedly been paid a fee of Rs six crore for Shankar’s Robot where she is cast opposite Rajnikant.

By Jilawatan

What the 35 year old Aishwarya Rai couldn’t gain with years of hard work and dozens of films has just taken Frieda Pinto to achieve. We are talking about the red carpet at the Oscars, today the young Freida Pinto at 24 has already walked the Oscar red carpet and adding another feather to her cap she has already signed a film with Woody Allen.

The young Bombay based actress has beaten Aishwarya in her own game and has become the darling of the western audiences in no time and insider news is that she is slated to sign a few more movies in the next year or so. Great going for a young actress, let us all wish her the best in the following years.