Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starred in her first-ever commercial, when she was in the 9th standard.
Everyone knows the popular advertisement for Pepsi back in 1993co-starring Aamir Khanthat put Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the spotlight. But Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starred in her first commercial for Camlin pencils way before that, when she was still a student.
The Bollywood icon was considering movie offers, much before she was crowned Miss World
It wasnt Aishwarya Rai Bachchans win at the Miss World pageant in 1994, that drove her into acting. In an interview with Vogue, the star revealed, Im often cited as the person who established the beauty pageant-to-films route, but that was not the case with me. I had at least four film offers [before the pageants]. In fact, I decided to participate in Miss India to step back from the film industry for a bit. If I hadnt taken part in Miss India, Raja Hindustani [1996] would have been my first film.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has a flower named after her
A special variety of tulips in the famous Keukenhof garden in the Netherlands was named after Aishwarya Rai Bachchan back in 2005. The managing director of the Netherlands board of tourism, Hans Van Driem, said the tulips were a celebration of Rai Bachchans beauty.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan initially wanted to pursue medicine, ended up studying architecture
Modelling and acting werent Aishwarya’s first career choices. She initially wanted to pursue a career in medicine, and her favorite subject was zoology. She dropped the idea to study architecture later, at the Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture in Mumbai.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is known by this nickname by her close ones
Known as Ash by people in Bollywood, and the media, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has another nickname given to her by family. The stars sister-in-law, Shrima Rai, once revealed that Rai Bachchans stardom is never a topic at home, and that she is just the much-loved Gullu maami to her two nephews.