Aishwarya Rai effect: Not old or posh to push for natural delivery

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MUMBAI: When actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan delivered a baby on Wednesday, she made a powerful statement: One is never too posh to push or too old for a natural delivery. The 38-year-old former Miss World won accolades from various city's doctors for her "feat" at a time when every fourth woman in Mumbai undergoes a Caesarean section delivery instead of a natural one. Among women who are over 35 years of age, this statistic gets more skewed: one survey said 60% of them opted for a surgical delivery.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s star studded Baby Shower!

Jaya Bachchan held a baby shower for her pregnant daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Tuesday 18th October at their residence in Mumbai.

Stars such as Bipasha Basu, Saira Banu, Twinkle Khanna, Sonali Bendre, Urmila Matondkar, Manyata Dutt, Asha Parekh and Karan Johar attended the baby shower, which in true Bollywood style featured singing and dancing. Fashion wise the stars opted for Indian attire with many stars opting for white and gold outfits.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who is expecting her first child in November, opted for an orange Indian outfit and had makeup artist Mickey Contractor on hand getting the star ready on the day. Guests reported that Aishwarya was glowing with a mother-to-be glow surrounding her.

Choreographer Saroj Khan, who also attended the event, told the media about the baby shower saying, “I have never seen so many celebrity women together. All the women went up to Aishwarya and blessed her. Jayaji received each guest personally and was very warm. Even her daughter, Shweta, gave personal attention to everyone. There were a lot of songs and celebration.”

Husband Abhishek Bachchan, who wore a white and gold embroided kurta, thanked fans for their good wishes to his wife on the special day tweeting, “Good morning everyone. Thank you so much for all the wishes for Aishwarya on her Godh Bharai’. Read out some of your messages to her.”

Amitabh Bachchan could not attend the event as he is currently shooting for his latest Hollywood movie in Australia, The Great Gatsby.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's mom Vrinda Rai hosts baby shower

After Jaya Bachchan hosted a grand godh bharai for her daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aishwarya's mother Vrinda Rai also hosted a traditional Mangalore style baby shower for her daughter at a hotel in Bandra, Mumbai.

Vrinda Rai hosted a baby shower for Aishwarya Rai at a hotel in Mumbai in a traditional Mangalorean Bunt style. The function, which took place on October 23rd was a very private affair attended by close family and friends. The event was attended not only by female guests, but also by the men folks.

Vrinda Rai ensured that the décor was typical South Indian. It was decked with jasmine flowers, brass urlis and Kerala lamps made of bell metal. The ambience was typical South Indian style with a strong Kerala theme. What's more, there was also performance by a troupe playing the typical Mangalorean music.

As per sources, the cuisine was also South Indian and had dishes from every state in the south. There was vellappam, malabar parathas, prawns, egg stew, alleppey fish curry, urulaikilangu roast, yennai kathrika, hyderabadi biryani, curd rice, steamed fish and paneer in banana leaf.

The only celebrities from the film industry to be invited apart from the Bachchans was Aishwarya Rai's favourite directors Mani Ratnam, Ashutosh Gowariker and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. While Mani Ratnam was accompanied by wife Suhasini, Sanjay Leela Bhansali came alone. Abhishek Bachchan with friends Sikander and Kirron Kher, Shrishti Arya and Sonali Bendre were also present at the function

Sanjay bonds with Abhi-Ash

We all know Sanjay Dutt and Maanyata Dutt are gracious hosts. Recently, they invited Abhishek Bachchcan and wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan over dinner at their Bandra residence. The Dutts have always been close to the Bachchans and this dinner proves that fact. Guess Abhi and Aish must have taken parenting tips from the recently became parents Sanju and Maanyta.

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Aishwarya gets a cleft smile for charity ‎

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hailed by many as the most beautiful woman in the world, has today been announced as the first goodwill ambassador for Smile Train, the world's largest cleft charity. Recognised as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Aishwarya

Using her superstar status, her high wattage personality and global reach, Aishwarya will work with Smile Train to achieve an ambitious new goal in helping change the lives of over one million children worldwide who suffer from shame and isolation because of cleft lip and cleft palate.

Aishwarya Rai gets french honour

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been in the news quite a lot recently and not always very pleasant news either.

But here's one good news for the beauty queen's fans and that is she is all set to be honoured with the prestigious Officer Dan Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres by the French Government in New Delhi tomorrow. Aishwarya is the first Asian actress and the youngest Indian to win the honour.

But here's one good news for the beauty queen's fans and that is she is all set to be honoured with the prestigious Officer Dan Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres by the French Government in New Delhi tomorrow. Aishwarya is the first Asian actress and the youngest Indian to win the honour.

Aishwarya Rai Pregnant 2011

Aishwarya Rai Pregnant 2011

Is Aishwarya Rai Pregnant? Will Aishwarya Rai have a baby in 2011? This was the question of millions of her fans worldwide when Aishwarya Rai celebrated her 37th birthday in October 2010.

But Now it is been confirmed that the Miss Universe and Miss Abheshak Bachan, Aishwarya Rai is pregnant and she will have baby bachan this year 2011. So for Aishwarya Rai fans its been a good news that Aishwarya Rai is pregnant and now she is going to be a complete women after her baby birth.

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Aishwarya VS Madhuri

Director of the Satte Pe Satta Soham Shah has upset Sanjay Dutt. The director recently made an announcement that Madhuri Dixit would play the female lead opposite Dutt in the actor's co-production with Shree Ashtavinayak.

The film in question is the Satte Pe Satta remake and the actor is upset because Madhuri was never approached by the producers and Aishwarya Rai and Kajol were the first choices for the role originally played by Hema Malini in the 1982 flick.

A source maintains, "Kajol was Sanju's first choice. But she had a baby last year and Sanju didn't want to put her in a fix. If not Kajol, his choice was always Aishwarya Rai, never Madhuri Dixit. Ash was approached for the role but had date issues. During this time, two other names came up for consideration Rani Mukherjee and Karisma Kapoor."

At this point, Soham suggested Madhuri. Apparently, he wanted to sensationalise his project. Adds the source, "It was Soham who made the declaration without informing the producers. He told Ashtavinayak that Sanju was fine with Madhuri and told Rikku (Madhuri's secretary) to announce on her birthday that she is doing the film."

Sanjay Dutt says, "The script hasn't yet been sent to Madhuri. Nor has the money exchanged hands. I am in Diu, so I don't know what's happening in Mumbai. Ashtavinyak and I are waiting for Aishwarya. I don't know why Soham made such a hasty decision without confirming with the producers!"

A source close to Soham insists, "He's not completely to blame. There's more to this story than meets the eye."

Says the source, "Soham had a fallout with Karan Johar after Kaal. He approached Ajay Devgn with the same script and later went to John Abraham with it. That's why none of Soham's actors have worked with him again except Sanju, who gave him another chance after Luck. But now Sanju is upset, too."

Aishwarya Rai will walk the red carpet at the 64th Cannes Film Festival this year

April 17, 2011, (Sawf News) - Aishwarya Rai, 37, will walk the red carpet at the 64th Cannes Film Festival as L'Oreal brand ambassador for the 10th consecutive time this year.

The festival is scheduled to be held from 11 May to 22 May 2011.

Alas! This year Aishwarya will be sans doting husband Abhishek Bachchan.

"I can't go this year to Cannes with Aishwarya. We were there together last year to promote 'Raavan'. But this year I will be shooting in Russia that time," Bachchan, 35, says. [via PTI]

Abhishek, who will be in Russia for the filming of Abbas-Mustan's Players, will not just miss the Cannes Red Carpet with Aishwarya, he will also miss their fourth wedding anniversary on April 20.

But he is proud of Aishwarya, who has been a constant fixture at Cannes as L'Oreal ambassador since 2002, when she first walked the red carpet at the festival with her Devdas co-star Shah Rukh Khan's.

"I am very proud of her. I think she is the only Indian actress to have that," says Abhishek.

L'Oreal Paris are the official makeup artistes at the Cannes Film Festival since 1998.

Aishwarya to romance Sanjay dutt in Satte Pe Satta

Buzz is that Sanjay Dutt wants to rope in Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as the lead opposite him in Satte Pe Satta remake.

If all goes well, Aishwarya Rai will play Sanjay's wife in the film. "We don't know how the rumour started that Vidya Balan had been signed to play Sanju's wife in
Satte Pe Satta. Nobody even approached her. Dutt is extremely keen that we sign Aishwarya to play the female lead opposite him. He is adamant that only Ash fits the role. The actress is keen on the idea of doing the film if everything else works out," a source told Mid Day.

Aishwarya"The script writer along with the director of Satta Pe Satta, Soham Shah, will fly down to New Zealand next week to give her a story narration. Ash is holidaying there with husband Abhishek, who is shooting in Wellington for Abbas-Mastan's Players, along with Sonam Kapoor," the source added.

Aishwarya had earlier worked with Sanjay in David Dhawan's Hum Kisise Kum Nahin and Leena Bajaj's Shabd.

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Aamir-Aishwarya patch up!

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has always maintained a respectable relationship with megastar Amitabh Bachchan but the same cannot be said with ‘Bachchan bahu’ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The face-off started when Ash abandoned Aamir Khan’s project Mangal Pandey at the last minute. Then Aamir called up his good friend Rani Mukherjee, who finally appeared in the film.

Buzz up!

However, they finally patched up after so many years and that happened at the 10th wedding anniversary of Akshay Kumar and his wife Twinkle. Ash and Aamir had a cold war, since these years but now they have settled the issues.

Usually, Ash does not stay in any party for more than 10 minutes but when she came to know that Aamir and Kiran Rao are on their way, the beauty queen waited for them to reach the party. When the couple reached the party, Ash went forward and bonded with the actor like never before. They spoke warmly and discussed about Kiran’s upcoming movie Dhobi Ghat. After spending some time together, Aamir had to leave early. Soon after his exit, Ash also left the party.

A source from the party revealed that both were seen very comfortable with each other and it seemed that they have forgotten the bitter past and planned to move ahead with good will of each other.

Now, when the dup has settled their issues, can we expect any joint project in near future?

Aishwarya to team up with Saif for Vishal’s next

Aishwarya to work with Vishal after 14 years
The filmmaker, who has been chasing Aishwarya for 14 years to do his project, is still persistently trying to coax the actress to work with him in his new, even though she has turned down a couple of his projects due to non-availability of dates.

It’s learnt that recently Vishal had gone to the Bachchan’s abode, Janak to have few rounds of discussions with Aishwarya for his new project and hence, finalize the deal.

Speaking on this, sources close to the filmmaker stated, “Vishal was indeed there to meet with Ash. It went on for an hour at least where they discussed and dissected the offers that he had for her. As of now things are very hush hush."

With a clutch of new projects in his hand, apart from this film, Vishal is also keen on roping in Aishwarya for one more project. Buzz has it that the filmmaker has made plans to cast her in a film with Hrithik Roshan.

Has Aish agreed to do the film is still unknown, but it looks like Vishal is leaving no opportunity to attract the actress.

Aishwarya to work with Rituparno Ghosh for the third time
Aishwarya is all set to do a third film with Rituparno Ghosh, after featuring in two of her earlier flicks, ‘Chokher Bali’ and ‘Raincoat’.

It’s heard that Ghosh’s next project is going to be an adaptation of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's novel ‘Devi Chaudhurani’.

Having worked with Ghosh in two films, Aish is all excited to work with the filmmaker again.

Confirming the news about her new project, Aishwarya stated, “Ritu has been coming with so many wonderful offers after Chokher Bali and Raincoat. We were destined to come together."