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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress who has appeared in 48 films in five languages, predominantly in Hindi and Tamil. She made her acting debut in 1997 with dual role in Mani Ratnam's Tamil political drama film Iruvar , and her Bollywood debut that same year in the romantic comedy Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya opposite Bobby Deol. [1] [2] Rai followed it with a leading role in Jeans (1998), a high-profile Tamil film that was submitted as India's official entry to the Academy Awards. [3] [4] She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's romantic drama Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and starred as a singer in the musical drama Taal (both 1999). [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Rai had six film releases in 2000, including Kandukondain Kandukondain , a Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility , and Aditya Chopra's romantic drama Mohabbatein . [9] [10] In 2002, Rai starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Bhansali's period romance Devdas , an adaptation of the novel of the same name. [11] Her performance in the top-grossing production earned her a second Best Actress award at Filmfare. [6] [12] In 2003, Rai played a sexually repressed widow in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Chokher Bali , a sleeper hit. [13] [14] However, the failure of her two Hindi film releases of the year Dil Ka Rishta and Kuch Naa Kaho led to a setback in her Bollywood career. [15] [16] The following year, Rai played a character based on Elizabeth Bennet in a Bollywood-style adaptation of Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice , entitled Bride and Prejudice , a British production directed by Gurinder Chadha. [17] Also in 2004, she reunited with Ghosh to play an unhappily married woman in the drama Raincoat . [18]

In 2006, Rai featured as a thief in the action film Dhoom 2 , her biggest commercial success since Devdas. [16] She followed it by playing the leading lady opposite Abhishek Bachchan in Ratnam's drama Guru (2007), a box office hit. [19] Also in 2007, Rai appeared in her first Hollywood productionthe unremarkable The Last Legion . [20] [21] [22] Greater success came to her (as Rai Bachchan) with the role of Jodhaa Bai opposite Hrithik Roshan's Akbar in the historical drama Jodhaa Akbar (2008). [23] [24] Rai Bachchan had five film releases in 2010, including the 250 crore (US$30 million)-grossing Tamil science fiction film Enthiran co-starring Rajinikanth. [25] She also played a quadriplegic's nurse in Bhansali's acclaimed drama Guzaarish . [26] [27] After a sabbatical, Rai Bachchan made her comeback with Jazbaa (2015), a remake of the South Korean film Seven Days , and took on the supporting part of a poetess in Karan Johar's commercially successful romance Ae Dil Hai Mushkil . [28] [29] She reunited with Ratnam for the two-part period films Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023); the former earned 500 crore (US$60 million) to rank as her highest-grossing release and one of the highest-grossing Tamil films. [30]

Films

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotesRef.
1997 Iruvar Pushpavalli/Kalpana [I] Tamil [31]
Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Ashi Kapoor Hindi [32]
1998 Jeans Madhumitha/Vaishnavi [II] Tamil [33]
1999 Aa Ab Laut Chalen Pooja WaliaHindi [34]
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam NandiniHindi [35]
Ravoyi Chandamama Unnamed Telugu Special appearance in song "Love to Live" [36] [37]
Taal MansiHindi [38]
2000 Mela ChampakaliHindiSpecial appearance [39]
Kandukondain Kandukondain MeenakshiTamil [40]
Josh Shirley DiasHindi [41]
Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai Preeti VyasHindi [42]
Dhai Akshar Prem Ke Sahiba GrewalHindi [43]
Mohabbatein Megha ShankarHindi [44]
2001 Albela Sonia HeinzHindi [45]
2002 Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam SumanHindiSpecial appearance [46]
Hum Kisise Kum Nahin Komal RastogiHindi [47]
23rd March 1931: Shaheed MannawaliHindiSpecial appearance [48]
Devdas Parvati "Paro" ChakrabortyHindi [49]
Shakti: The Power HerselfHindiSpecial appearance in song "Ishq Kamina" [50]
2003 Chokher Bali Binodini Bengali [51]
Dil Ka Rishta Tia SharmaHindi [52]
Kuch Naa Kaho Namrata ShrivastavHindi [53]
2004 Khakee MahalakshmiHindi [54]
Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... Diya MalhotraHindi [55]
Bride and Prejudice Lalita BakshiEnglish [56]
Raincoat NeerjaHindi [57]
2005 Shabd Antara Vashist/Tammana [II] Hindi [58]
The Mistress of Spices TiloEnglish [59]
Bunty Aur Babli UnnamedHindiSpecial appearance in song "Kajra Re" [60]
2006 Umrao Jaan Umrao JaanHindi [61]
Dhoom 2 SunehriHindi [62]
2007 Guru Sujata DesaiHindi [63]
Provoked Kiranjit Ahluwalia English [64]
The Last Legion MiraEnglish [21]
2008 Jodhaa Akbar Jodhaa Bai Hindi [65]
Sarkar Raj Anita RajanHindi [66]
2009 The Pink Panther 2 Sonia SolandresEnglish [67]
2010 Raavan Ragini SharmaHindi [68]
Raavanan Ragini SubramaniamTamil [69]
Enthiran SanaTamil [70]
Action Replayy MalaHindi [71]
Guzaarish Sofia D'SouzaHindi [72]
2011Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever ToldHerselfEnglish/HindiDocumentary [73]
2015 Jazbaa Anuradha VermaHindi [28]
2016 Sarbjit Dalbir KaurHindi [74]
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Saba Taliyar KhanHindi [75]
2018 Fanney Khan Sumitra "Baby" SinghHindi [76]
2022 Ponniyin Selvan: I Nandini / Oomai Rani [I] Tamil [77]
2023 Ponniyin Selvan: II Tamil [78]

Footnotes

^[I] Rai played dual roles in the film. [79]
^[II] Rai played a single character who has two different names in the film. [80] [81]

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