Aishwarya Rai has had her above all bright year yet

Aishwarya Rai has had her above all bright year yet

Aishwarya Rai has had her above all bright year yet: The most delicious scene in Guzaarish was when Aishwarya Rai draws open the net curtains around a debilitated Hritik Roshan’s bed. Elbows out, she marched with an operatic grace only forgiven in a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. This wasn’t Broadway, and she isn’t Anne Hathaway. But what may have been condemned as stage-y had it been another actor, was controlled exaggeration for Aishwarya, like a poetic hyperbole.

In Raavan, she looked ethereal, even ghost-like. She fell from a branch of a tree into a raging river in a manner more elegant than a qualified dancer’s moves. Her taandav with Abhishek Bachchan in the film was a visual feast. Yes, he is handsome and a tender performer, but who can get their gaze off the wife?

In the same vein, Aishwarya’s fashion-speak is of her own lexicon. There is nobody in this country who’d vote her the best dressed. I don’t know any woman who admires her style. And I can’t recall any film costume of hers that has sparked a retail phenomenon among her fans.