We have been reporting this for over a month now here on Sepia Mutiny, and it seems to be official, Aishwarya Rai (TMBWITW), who was featured prominently in DC’s most recent international filmfest, will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show this Monday (4/25), check your local listings to find out when it airs, and Aishwarya’s official site for more updates.
I can’t take it, she’s everywhere. I look there, she’s there, I turn around, der kommissar’s in town. Those eyes, even my potatos have eyes.
Set the giggle-meter
Who gives a rat’s ass?
You know what I’d like to see? Salman, Aishwarya and that new girl – Sneha Ullal – an Ash lookalile on Jerry Springer. Jerry! Jerry!
Maybe Ash can kiss somebody on screen on Springer and get it over with.
This psuedo-prude B.S. to appease the desi culture police makes me cringe every second.
she’s just a crappy dumbshit actress . and a horrid horrid actress . in fact that word shouldnt be abused. shes just plain horrid.
I don’t think anyone is claimging that she is the most talented actress out there, but I must say, her work is definitely getting better. I thought she did a great job in Chokher Bali, and I, and a whole slew of movie reviewers thought she was quite good in Bride and Prejudice.
And at the end of the day G Streggilson, she is going to be on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and well, you are not.
Dude, Sajit, don’t mean to start a flamewar here, but are you saying you wanna be on Oprah? Hahaha sike!
And let’s face it, she’s not the first crappy dumbshit actress to be on Oprah.
Fair enough Potty Master, and I guess you are right, I know both Ben Affleck and Ashton Kutcher have been on Oprah.
I can’t wait! All you jealous Aishwarya haters need to go find a hobby.
Dude, are you serious? I’d love to be on Oprah. If she ever does a show on the life stories of bloggers, I’m there.
To each his own, yo. Somehow I always thought dude on Oprah = cuckold.
I think I’m being unfairly hated on. I was good in The Butterfly Effect, Dude Where’s My Car was hilarious, and Punk’d was brilliant, even if it’s played out now.
Plus, I’m really, really cute.
Maybe there’s a little playahatin going on. You know everyone wants Demi. Or you’re just jealous of my webbed feet.
Ash Monday, on Oprah!
and dung india is a better name? i get that it’s not “so desi”, but what in fact, is it? hmmmm. perhaps your dislike of punnery is a symptom of something serious…an inability to appreciate cute and clever blog names, perhaps.
Question: If I dont like something/someone in the media I generally dont give it too much importance to comment on it extensively…I just make a point to ignore it (unless ofcourse if offends me) Now, I dont think Aishwarya Rai has offended anyone…then why oh why does everyone have to bitch about her??
PS: FYI, I dont claim to be her fan or consider her the greatest indian actress, but I just dont understand this crazy Aishwarya bashing on SM’s comments…all the time!
Can a Mutineer help me out? I am trying to do the whole trackback thing- I want to link to this post from my website. When I click on trackback address all I get is-
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Sorry for posting this on here, I didn’t know how else to get in touch with you folks.
That’s just my opinion, Punelope.
i think you want the permalink? on sepia mutiny, if you click “direct link”, you can link to any post OR any individual comment. the permalink for this post is
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001406.html
hope that helps 🙂
p.s. sending a trackback ping is different…if that’s what you need help with, just ask.
Anna, thats exactly what I need- a trackback ping. I don’t know how to do that- I thought I just click on trackback address and I follow the instructions from there. But the message I showed you earlier is what I get when that happens.
Damn Ashton Kutcher (do whiter names than Ashton and Topher even exist?) for inflicting The Butterfly Effect on the world. I had a better time at my last root canal.
And Ashton, yo mamma never taught you to comment on the right post?
Daycruz, most blogging software sends trackbacks automatically. If it’s not working, right-click on the Trackback link and choose Copy Shortcut.
Then check the help page for your blogging software. Find the option to manually send trackbacks and paste in that link.
Manish: Topher is actually short for Chistopher. His name is Christopher Grace. When he was starting out Topher Grace made him stand out more than Chris Grace. (He said so in an interview with W.)
When I heard that he lost points with me. Lame nickname. But he’s so adorable that sort of makes up for it. I love it when he lipsynchs Barry White. Sigh. Anyway.
Yay for Ash. I need to get my mom to tape it for me.
Just..oh..about millions and millions of people….Stop sippin that Haterade!
People are too quick to bring out the player hater thing….lots of people comment on pop culture. sometimes you don’t like someone whose in pop culture. I don’t like Ash. at one time I did. now I find her annoying and not too cute. This would not be an issue except…..pop culture is all about presenting us with “isn’t Ash so popular and cute” right now
I for one think she’s quite the little jewel, sad, so sorry that my son chose Camilla for his crown…
point taken. however, THIS is straight haterade-guzzling…
…and unfortunately, THAT is what a lot of the anti-Ash comments are like. say she’s not your cup of tea (as raju did so well). there’s no need to be a total jerk about it.
“Haterade” is calling someone you know nothing about except for one measly post a “total jerk.” Please, no one has the right to po-lice others’ opinions.
Please, no one has the right to po-lice others’ opinions.
Top-props to SM, the only site where you can think about the double-tribble meanings of “Ash on Oprah” while feeling a strange desire to drink Gatorade and fight-the-good-fight of free speech.
please, let me clarify: feel free to have whatever opinion you like, it doesn’t matter to me. what DOES matter to me is the way that opinion is stated. is it so wrong to wish that people could express whatever they want without sounding like…”crappy dumbshit”? why can’t they be as civil as “Raju” was?
if i think that someone took the tone of a “total jerk” that’s–you guessed it– an opinion. according to you, no one has the right to police those. mmm, smell that hypocrisy. 😉
gosh, how terrible of me to hope that someone could state their dislike of some actress i’ve never seen a movie with, without resorting to profanity and baseless nastiness. in case you haven’t noticed, i’m not the only one who remarks on the unbelievable lengths some anonymous comment-leavers will go to bash Ash.
Word…I think you’re getting your knickers into a twist anti-Ash people…there’s a difference between not liking someone and haten on em, and you can tell……that said….why defend a celebrity from haterade?
I don’t think it’s about haterade or kool-aid. I have nothing against Aishwarya Rai – I don’t even know the woman. What I am against is – and I don’t know how else to explain this – is giving people “bhaav” for no rhyme or reason. Extolling their virtues and getting all excited about just seeing a desi in the media.
Look, my point is this – have talent give them bhaav, not just because they’re from our homeland.
And I’d like to counter the argument of “they’re are people.” Everybody is our people – we’re humans first and then every other bracket we’ve come up with.
You know what I’m saying?
that’s pretty philosophical Potty Master. But you’re in the minority. I will get excited when I see a South Asian in the media because it doesn’t happen often. And when that person happens to be someone who I believe is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World … then hell yes I’m going to be excited.
Ash isn’t just another desi in the media, and we are not highlighting her bit-part extra role in a film (although we can if we want to). We are highlighting her being featured on Oprah, one of the most popular shows in the world, after playing the lead in a Western film, and being featured on 60 minutes, the David Letterman show, and a slew of others.
You seem to be going out of your way to post articles about someone you purportedly have no feelings for. If you truly could care less (or rather, wouldnt “give a rats ass” for), you would let those people who find an interest in her as an actress and as a South Asian be. Otherwise, the only reason to care would be to have at least some degree of enmity towards her. So in short, either you truly dont care, or you’re sippin…
Hey everyone, a human being just got a Nobel Prize recently. And another human being is on the Letterman show tomorrow night. What? Nobody cares? Odd…
Just another Bolly-slut who slept (and plastic surgeried) her way to the top.
BTW, her “millions of fans” are in India (with a population of 1 billion), so of course she would have millions of them. Plus most of those uneducated people worship anything white (or in her case, heavily bleached with white foundation). Millions of fans does not mean truly good.
I’ll give her credit for one thing- her business savvy. b/c that’s the only reason she’s where she is right now; she keeps a good relationship with the press unlike many other pageant winners. (O/T: it is highly thought that she only won the pageant so that Indian businesses could use her as a marketing tool for fairness creams.) What she lacks in acting ability/natural beauty she makes up for in makeup/PR/contract negociating efforts.
Well I, for one, love the Oprah (I have no official opinion on TMBWITHW).
Manish: why you hatin (that is what you kids say, isn’t it) on Ashton and Topher? As someone raised Iowan, I am glad to see someone else who actually lived in the dorms in Iowa City storm Hollywood, as it were. He’s a human, aiight? Plus, that Topher has filled out nicely, hasn’t he? He seems like a nice young man….
(I have a sad, sad confession: I love the 70s Show. Now that I have confessed, I realize I can no longer show my face around here, ever, ever again. Still, truth is important.)
Because they’re terrible actors.
You know there was a great line in a Paul Newman movie called ‘Hud’ which went:
Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You’re just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what’s right and wrong.
Ash Rai is very pretty – but I just can’t admire her for that. And there are so many people like her we’ve put on a pedestal.
Gimme Naomi Watts any day – she can act and she is smokin’.
in my last comment i said
she’s just a crappy dumbshit actress . and a horrid horrid actress . in fact that word shouldnt be abused. shes just plain horrid.
that is my sincere honest opinion. i think she’s a horrid actress.i think she’s dumb. i think the word actor or actress should be reserved for those of the highest caliber. so why should i mince words. i ‘m not asking people to change their opinions on her, im just expressing mine which i have every right to. just as you have a right to like and celebrate her i have every right to dislike and dismiss her. and where have i attacked people for liking her? that’s their business and frankly i dont give a shit what others think. i only care about what i feel and i feel she’s really dumb, has a rotten accent ( dunno where she bought that one from) , and cant act.
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I don’t particularly like Rai. Nothing distinguishes her from every other actress that looks and acts like her in Bollywood…and the skin lightening commercials are irritating.
It would be nicer if better actresses got some exposure, but I guess beggers can’t be choosers.
you mean – bloggers can’t be choosers ?
I’m sorry for your root canal, because I’m a really nice guy. However, if you’ll notice, I’ve commented in that post as well; it’s my policy to do so everywhere that my good name is besmirched.
I have to go write letters to People Magazine now.
So, let’s take a breather from “hating” on Aishwarya Rai and instead hate on how Oprah Winfrey describes her show with “Ash”:
“She is called the most beautiful woman on the planet. Who is she? Meet her right here! Then, go to countries where babies are left outside in the cold and “slimming” salons are all the rage. Plus, exotic sex secrets are revealed.”
Notice how Oprah doesn’t introduce Ash as the “best actress in the world”? It’s because she’s not.
For all the haters, just look at it this way: she may be a “crappy dumbshit actress”, but you must admit, she is really good at being hot, and that’s why she’s getting so much attention.
Though I personally don’t care much, Mutineers who love Ash have good reason. I mean, it’s not every day that an Indian woman is called the “the most beautiful woman on the planet”.
SD, i was utterly dismayed at that, too. “let’s go to sad places where they kill babies via exposure AND THEN we’ll tell you how to get your sad husband to give you that perverted look he hasn’t laid on you in fifteen years! yay!”
yuck. couldn’t they have edited these topics for a more cohesive/appropriate show???
It’s incredibly revealing that Oprah is lumping Ash together with a random collection of “exotica”. Sadly this is how most of the non-Indian US audience will view her: an exotic oddity, a beautiful anomaly.
Oprah will continue the exotification of Ash that Letterman began with his inane questions about her living with her parents, and whether she had seen “Happy Days”. It’s culturally arrogant for these talk show types to portray Ash this way — as if the ultimate validation of her celebrity status has to come from America. So until Oprah says you’re an exotic somebody, you’re a nobody? Please. I’m no fan of Ash but I can’t stand the way she’s being projected in the US media.
I’m with timepass on that one
Look, Oprah is interested in ratings, like any other show. And there is plenty of proof that viewers like to watch pretty people on TV. Halle Berry is a gorgeous woman, but an ordinary actress. The same can be said of other Hollywood starlets.
If anything, Rai is a break with the past. Think about two past Indian cultural ambassadors – Ravi Shankar and Satyajit Ray. Both of them toiled for years in India, and had limited success. Once they were discovered by Western audiences, you had a bunch of Indian cultural critics decrying the “exoctic” image they portrayed to Western audiences, but they soon were appreciated by Indian audiences. Rai, to her credit, first developed a substantial following in India before dipping her toe in Hollywood’s waters.
Rai can act, if given the right material. Her performance in Choker Bali was subversive without being obvious, sensual without being explicit.