- published: 06 May 2016
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Aishwarya Rai, known also as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after her marriage (Tulu pronunciation [əjɕʋərjaː rəj]; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994. Rai has featured in films in various languages including Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali.
Often cited by the media as the "most beautiful woman in the world", Rai made her acting debut with Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997), and had her first commercial success in Jeans (1998). She found success in Bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002) and eventually won two Filmfare Awards in the Best Actress category.
After a series of unsuccessful films during 2003–2005, she appeared in the blockbuster action thriller Dhoom 2 (2006) and subsequently featured in such films as Guru (2007), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), and Enthiran (2010). She gained critical acclaim for her performances in offbeat, independent films such as Chokher Bali (2003), Raincoat (2004), and Provoked (2007). Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses of Indian cinema.
Actors: Richard Bradford (actor), Treat Williams (actor), Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), Ally Sheedy (actress), Virginia Madsen (actress), Kurtwood Smith (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Peter Berg (actor), Steve Tisch (producer), Neal Thompson (miscellaneous crew), Patti Hawn (miscellaneous crew), Karen Eisenstadt (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Babcock (actress), Doris Hellmann (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Beard (actor),
Plot: Alabama, 1957. Pampered Souther belle Maggie DeLoach and her fellow sorority sisters Delia June, Keefi, and chapter president M.A., at Randolph College have lived the cosseted good life, free from worry and the strife that's starting to affect the rest of the Deep South during the Civil Rights movement. But when Maggie meets a liberal and dashing young photographer named Hoyt Cunningham who talks about the impending changes in the South, as well the radical talk from her outgoing classmate Aiken, Maggie knows her life will soon change too.
Keywords: 1950s, alabama, based-on-novel, civil-rights, civil-rights-era, college, coming-of-age, cross-cultural-relations, debutante-ball, elvis-presley