Lovely Bollywood Babe Aishwarya Rai

Do you know the meaning of femme fatale. If not, you can always ask people like Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi. These guys have understood the meaning of femme fatale first hand, have had to go through problems because of the said femme fatale, and even know face problems because of this femme fatale. In the case of Salman and Vivek, the name of this so called femme fatale is Aishwarya Rai.

Aishwarya burst into the scene by winning the Miss World title – and then came into movies with Iruvar (a tamil movie) directed by the great Mani Ratnam. While the film failed to find its feet at the box office, Aishwarya Rai established herself as a recognisable name in the Indian film industry. Despite not being accepted as a great actress or as a star with recognisable star power at the box office, she kept herself in the lime light because of her closeness with Salman Khan (who is widely recognised as the wild child of the Indian film industry). This closeness which developed during the shooting of Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Hum Aapke Hai Kaun – blossomed into full blown romance. But there were problems in the Garden of Eden, and they split up amongst rumours of Ash being ill treated by Salman Khan.

Her split up with Salman was accompanied by her becoming close to Vivek Oberoi – who was a rising star after the wild success of Company and Saathiya. Vivek had established himself as a possible next big thing by back to back successes in an action movie and a romantic movie. Ash’s closeness with Vivek lead to spats between him and Salman Khan – with the action sometimes splilling onto broadsheets and being fodder to the rumour mills. Unfortunately, all this affected Viveks career, and from the sparkling start he had, his career went no where.

Aishwarya detached herself from Vivek and after floating around for some time, she settled down to become Mrs. Abhishek Bachan – thus creating a family with unmatched ad power and star pull in India. Something like this had never been seen in India till now – here we had a array of Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek and Aishwarya! Aishwarya also started getting better and meatier roles – and endorsements ensured she was always in the center of attention (whether it be in India or on the international scene).

Salman continued his wild child ways – but the specter of Aishwarya seems to haunt him constantly. His recent spat with Shah Rukh Khan seemed to stem from a comment that SRK made on Aishwarya. And for Vivek, his career never recovered – and he keeps going from false start to false start.

This is the story of Bollywood’s femme fatale! So be warned guys!!