The Curse Of Being The IDEAL WOMAN: Aishwarya Rai

She's not just one in thousands, lakhs or crores. She's the world's most beautiful woman. People are jealous of her. What else? With whom, not just Bollywood, Hollywood actors also wanted to work with impatience. Today, we celebrate young people for achieving big things like Kylie Jenner, Mark Zuckerberg for being millionaires and billionaires at a young age. That is the big deal for our generation. But Aishwarya, be like Bholma Bachchan and see how it's done. First Indian actress to get invited to Cannes and next year become a jury member. First Indian actress to get her wax statue made in London's Madame Tussauds. By the time she was 20, she had won more than 100 awards. And the youngest actress to win the Padma Shri award. In 2009, she was declared as the most powerful Indian actress and the most influential Indian woman. She has been the cover girl for the world's biggest magazines more than anyone in India. And just to see her once, traffic jams were set up in many countries. The girl who became Miss India, Miss World, conquered both Bollywood and Hollywood movies all on her own. The perfect woman with a perfect life. The one who got the title of Beauty with Brains. Anyone who sees her would say that God has not only blessed her but also blessed her destiny. Aishwarya fell in love, head over heels, crazy, madly. But she got such a big punishment for falling in love that she couldn't get a job. She had to face physical abuse in her relationship. She had to marry the flop actor of that time. And she had to leave her well-established career on the road. I detest being called fake. I detest that. Name an actor or actress that comes to your mind when I say the following. Plastic. Aishwarya. These days, her divorce news is in limelight everywhere. Aishwarya Rai, who was on the list of the 100 most powerful people of science, had to get helpless, get married and sit at home. And how did the stage of divorce come today? What compliments please you? About the person I am? I think always. Because one tends to want people to see beyond the apparent. But beauty has obviously made your life easier. Tell me, has there been a downside because of it? This is the story of how Aishwarya Rai's biggest blessing, her eternal beauty, turned into her biggest curse. Born in a well-educated upper-middle-class family in Mangalore, Karnataka, father Krishnaraj was an army biologist and mother Vrinda was a homemaker. Elder brother Aditya Rai is an engineer in the Merchant Navy. He did schooling from the Arya Vidya Mandir in Mumbai and was very good at studies. After scoring 92% in 12th grade, she wanted to study medicine. In her childhood, she took training in Bharatanatyam and Tabla. She did her first ad in 9th standard, in which she promoted the pencil brand. And she entered modeling when her English teacher, who was also a photojournalist, asked her to shoot a photo for a fashion magazine. Hi, I'm Sanjana. Got another Pepsi? After 12th grade, she studied medicine for a year and then shifted to architecture. And completed her studies. In 1994, Aishwarya participated in Miss India. And the whole of India thought that Aishwarya Rai would win. But she came second. And Miss India's title went to Sushmita Sen. It was a very close competition and both were very beautiful. But Sushmita Sen won because of her answers and her spot-on thinking. During the questioning round, both were asked if they wanted to change the date of one event in history, which one would they do? Aishwarya Rai said that she would like to change the time of her birth. Whereas Sushmita Sen said that she would like to change the death date of Indira Gandhi. This year, for the first time, Miss India saw a tie. When both Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen got 9.33 marks. Then, there was a tie-breaker round. In which Aishwarya was asked which Hollywood actor would she want to see as her husband. Aishwarya couldn't answer this question. Then, Sushmita was asked what she knew about Indian textiles. Sushmita's answer was Gandhi and Khadi. And because of this, Sushmita won only because of 0.3 points. And because of this, Aishwarya didn't get disheartened. And that year, she won Miss World. Aishwarya was involved in a lot of charities and she pledged to donate her eyes to the eye bank. And after some time, she entered Bollywood. After winning Miss World, she did modelling for 3 years and worked in many Tamil films. After that, she entered Bollywood with the film Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya. Which flopped badly in the box office. But her beauty was discussed all the time. That year, she met Salman Khan. Who was dating a Pakistani actress Somi Ali and was about to get married soon. Salman suggested Sanjay Leela Bansali as Aishwarya for Ham Dil De Chuke Sanam. And refused to work in Josh film. Because he didn't want to play Aishwarya's brother's role. For the first time, people noticed Aishwarya and her acting. And she became a star overnight. During the shoot, they became very close. And their chemistry was evident in the movie. Then Som Ali got to know about it. Just like the rest of the world. And he left Salman and his country and went to the USA forever. At that time, Aishwarya was 25 and Salman was 33. Both were exceptionally good looking. And Salman Khan had a bad boy image. And was known for having anger issues and multiple girlfriends. Their relationship was going very well. Aishwarya was often seen at Salman's family function and at his house. But what did he know at that time? That his luck was about to be tested. There were also rumors of their marriage. But Aishwarya's parents didn't like this relationship at all. So Aishwarya left the house and stayed in an apartment in Lokhandwala. And rumors of Salman Khan being an alcoholic started. And there were also many fights between them. That Salman drinks and misbehaves with Aishwarya. At that time, Aishwarya was in the top actresses of Bollywood after giving hit films like Taal and Mohopate. But her personal life hit a rock bottom. After Salman got drunk, he used to blame Aishwarya for having an affair with her co-stars. And he used to apologize to her after getting sober in the morning. Aishwarya kept going through it. Until she realized that this pattern was never going to change. After that, she started maintaining distance from Salman Khan. And at that time, something happened that Aishwarya got a big reason to break up with Salman Khan. In 2001, Salman gets a call from his ex Somali from USA. That his father is getting very sick. And Salman goes to meet him. When Aishwarya finds out about this, she gets very angry. She wanted to break up. And this caused a lot of fights between the two. One night, Salman got drunk and went to Aishwarya's Lokhandwala apartment. And started banging on her door. Aishwarya didn't open the door. But Salman started banging on the door again and again. He started abusing her. And started creating a ruckus. People around him also got together. This went on for hours. But Aishwarya didn't open the door. Then Salman blackmailed Aishwarya. That if she doesn't open the door, he will jump from the roof to her balcony. But even then Aishwarya didn't open the door. Salman got so frustrated. That he went to the parking lot and started breaking Aishwarya's car. The next day, Aishwarya's father filed an FIR against Salman. This angered Salman so much that he started calling his father names. He has accepted this in one of his upcoming interviews. That how he was disrespectful towards Aishwarya's parents. In the film Kuch Na Kaho, where Aishwarya and Abhishek were working together. Salman Khan started creating a ruckus. He started shouting at everyone. He started abusing everyone. He broke Aishwarya's car again. And slapped the film's director Subhash Ghai. But the next day, he apologized to Subhash Ghai on his father's behalf. When Aishwarya reached the Filmfare Awards that year. She had a plaster on her elbow. And she was wearing goggles at the night function. After seeing all this, the media started publishing that Salman physically abused Aishwarya. When they asked Aishwarya about this, she said that she fell down the stairs. But in the interviews a few months later, Aishwarya told how Salman used to call her again and again. From Shahrukh Khan to Abhishek Bachchan, he used to add their names with everyone. He used to physically abuse them. And if Aishwarya never picked up the phone, he used to hurt himself. When Salman Khan was asked the same thing, he said that he doesn't hurt anyone else. He only hurts himself. In 2002, the last movie of Aishwarya and Salman, Hum Tumare Hai Sanam, was released. Which had already been shot. So much drama happened. And now everyone thought that Salman would calm down. But in the ongoing shooting, in which Aishwarya and SRK were working together, Salman Khan got drunk and started abusing Aishwarya. And he started adding their names together and said that their affair was going on. And he harassed the entire set. Finally, the shooting got cancelled. SRK replaced Aishwarya and casted Rani Mukherjee in the film. When Aishwarya came to know about this, she was very upset. Because she was expecting support from SRK. But SRK had invested a lot of money in the movie. And they couldn't take any risk. Next day, Salman came back to the set and apologized to everyone. Everyone's work was going on as usual. But Aishwarya lost the movie. Because of this incident, Aishwarya was removed from the movie Mai Hoon Na and Veer Zara. All the big actors refused to work with Aishwarya. Because giving work to Aishwarya means messing with Salman Khan. Including Sanjay Leena Bansali, who called her his muse. Aishwarya didn't do anything wrong in all this. Maybe she was just getting punished for falling in love. First, they suffered in a toxic, abusive relationship. And even after the breakup, that relationship ruined their career prospects. Whereas Salman Khan used to beat up, get drunk and go to the sets. He used to say anything to anyone. But his career didn't make much difference. He kept getting films. After 2002, Aishwarya didn't get any big offers. Devdas was released, which was already shot. And it was considered to be his last big hit film of that time. It became the biggest film of the year, got screened in Cannes, and was a massive success in both Indian and American markets. After this, Aishwarya started struggling in her career and didn't get any big project. In 2003, she got a film with Vivek Oberoi, Kyun Ho Gaya Na. They became good friends. In the same year, Aishwarya had her 31st birthday. When Vivek Oberoi gave her 30 gifts, wanting to make her feel special. And when Salman Khan got to know about this, he called Vivek Oberoi a lot and abused him. Vivek didn't keep quiet. Instead, he called him a lot and asked him to meet him. But Salman didn't reach. Immediately after this, Vivek called a press conference and told everyone everything. Salman Khan's massive fan following made fun of Vivek Oberoi. And Aishwarya also didn't like Vivek's behaviour at all. She stopped getting work. She got stuck in controversies. But a girl gotta do what she gotta do. After Miss World, Aishwarya got many offers from Hollywood. But they rejected all of them. Because they wanted to work in Indian movies. Even Brad Pitt was offered a Troy movie. Which Aishwarya rejected. Because they didn't want to do explicit scenes for Helen of Troy. In Bollywood, the faster their graph went up, the faster it fell down. It became irrelevant. But even then, offers from Hollywood didn't stop coming. She did movies like Pride and Prejudice, The Last Legion, Pink Panther 2, The Mistress of Spices. Most of the time, she started living outside of India. It's not wrong to say that many people living in the West got to know about Bollywood because of Aishwarya. During that time, Katrina Kaif entered Salman's life. And finally, Aish got left behind. Mani Ratnam, Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgn were the only people who worked with her during difficult times. Then in 2006, she was offered an item song for Bunty Bubbly movie. Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan sang this song. And it went viral all over the country. That one hit song made Aishwarya's comeback in Bollywood. And she did movies like Umrao Jaan, Dhoom 2 and Guru, which became a big hit. Abhishek Bachchan was with her in all these movies. They got very close and were seen off-screen together. Till then, Abhishek had also been cheated twice in love. Salman Khan's loyal fans started blaming Aishwarya for leaving him. And started calling Aishwarya a gold digger for getting involved with Abhishek. In 2007, Abhishek proposed to Aishwarya. And they got married after the success of Guru. People said that after breaking up with Salman, there was no need to marry a low-level actor. Aishwarya and Abhishek don't compliment each other. And God knows what else. Next year, in 2008, she did Jodha Akbar with Hrithik Roshan. Which became a big hit. And next year, she did Guzaarish and Action Replay. Which didn't do well. But today, people like Guzaarish a lot. A few years later, Aishwarya gave birth to Aradhya. And took a 5-year break. And people trolled her for her post-pregnancy weight gain. She did one or two ads and didn't do any films. The cosmetic company L'Oreal, whose brand ambassador is Aishwarya Rai, Sonam Kapoor called her an aunty in one of her ad campaigns. And later denied she never said it. But while working in Dilli 6, she called Abhishek an uncle. Or in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, she called Salman an uncle. A few years later, Aishwarya refused to work with Sonam. And if Sonam shared a platform with her, Aishwarya would've quit. She did have the title of Beauty with Brains. But it was just a title. She didn't value the person behind it. She did films like Sarab Jeet and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. But like before, it was difficult to hit films on her own. It's very difficult to play a character older than you. But after Aishwarya's Sarab Jeet performance, anyone can get goosebumps. Now we've taken a vow in the name of women. Go tell your Taliban. Tell them the place and time. This Sikh girl will come there. I'm standing in front of you. If you have the guts, then come and shoot me. For a long time, there's been news of Abhishek Bachchan and his divorce. There's no confirmed information, but it's pretty evident that Bachchan family is having some internal problems. Rumors got worse when Aishwarya and her daughter Aaradhya came to Anant and Radhika Ambani's wedding separately. And the rest of the Bachchan family separately. I like it that she stands behind. She's quiet. She listens. And she's taking it all in. Jaya and Shweta Bachchan's dynamics with Aishwarya seem very problematic. And there's a high chance that the reality is even more problematic and messed up. Even if Aishwarya takes a divorce from Abhishek, then it won't come as a surprise to anybody. From the start, the Bachchan family has a sense of insecurity And it's evident during many functions when Paparazzi wants to take a solo photo of Aishwarya and Abhishek has a problem standing aside. So they get angry and leave. Not only this, the Bachchan family also sees Aishwarya and Aaradhya sidelining each other. Like in the Ambani function or in Archie's premiere before that. What's it like to be married to the most beautiful woman in the world? You said it's pleasant on the eye. Yeah. But there's got to be some downside. No. None? No. Because that's not the basis of my relationship with Aishwarya. It's not about, Oh, you're hot. Let's get married. You know, I married her because I love her for the human being that she is. It's evident that Abhishek has a problem with Aishwarya's success, fame and recognition. But when he enters the world with his family and enters with his wife and daughter separately, then he puts the entire Bachchan family and Abhishek in a very bad spotlight. When Aishwarya and Abhishek got married, Abhishek was considered a flop actor. Because of his father's legacy, Abhishek's every performance was compared to Amitabh. Because of which his good performances were overshadowed by his father and no recognition was received. While Aishwarya Rai was the it girl of her time. Both had established themselves in Bollywood and Bollywood and was quite a big name. They got married, but perhaps the Bachchan family did not like Aishwarya getting more limelight than Abhishek. Aishwarya always tried to avoid this feeling. Because of Aishwarya's fame, Abhishek's ego was not hurt. And perhaps while pleasing everyone, she lost her charm on the way. People call her out for her bed and plastic surgery. She is no longer a part of them. She is a 50-year-old woman who seems like has always been in a people-pleaser energy around her in-laws and husband. And to keep her in-laws happy every time, But we can't deny that the reason for Aishwarya marrying Abhishek is perhaps the Bachchan surname. When she was at a point where she really needed security in her life. But the funny part is, she was one of the most influential and powerful people in the world at that time. A completely self-made woman in every sense. Guys, this is the first time that this video has come to an end and so many questions are arising. What if Aishwarya hadn't tried to increase Abhishek's limelight? What if Aishwarya hadn't tried so hard to meet her in-laws' expectations? What if she hadn't prioritized other people's needs at her own expense? What if she hadn't chosen security in life? And it absolutely breaks my heart to say, What if she hadn't loved? Well, the fact is, The perfect girl with the perfect face, with the perfect life to show, with the most imperfect, raw, regular personal life. I am really the front line. I bring it on. For every phase, I think. I've just said, Okay, front line of the army, take all the bullets, and then everybody else, Cakewalk. I think I've done that in so many things. So many things about her. Life threw lemons, rocks, mountains at her. And not a single moment, she didn't look perfect. She's a loving daughter, a skilled actor, a loving girlfriend and wife, a perfect daughter-in-law, and a caring mother. But most importantly, she's a fierce individual who's mysterious about her private life and whatever she does. She has been nothing but grateful. And she has never been seen speaking ill of anyone. In every phase of her life, she has not just been the most beautiful woman, but a beautiful soul. And that is Aishwarya Rai for you.