Here’s a higher-resolution version of Aishwarya’s appearance on Letterman last night. It’s available via BitTorrent, here’s the torrent (73 MB MPEG, 7:52).
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Here’s Aishwarya on 60 Minutes: torrent (15 MB AVI, first 2:43).
Update: The shallowness of these questions surprises me. Letterman asks if she lives with her parents, 60 Minutes asks if she’ll kiss on screen. I half expect someone to ask if she ‘wears a dot on her forehead.’ She’s being treated gingerly, like a Martian, like Gandhi — talk about tension! Yeah, she’s not from Britain or Australia, get over it. On Aish’s part, she’s a lot more skittish, nervous and diva-ish in her American interviews than her Indian ones. And she was strangely combative: I dug her cultural smack-back on the living-at-home question, but it needed to be softened by a big smile.
The rant on American imperialism which Letterman showed was the strangest thing to pick out of a musical; it won’t do Bride and Prejudice any favors at the box office. And Aish dressed quite modestly, even more so than at Cannes or, for that matter, in most of her films. I get the feeling that she sees herself, and maybe the interviewers see her, as the Great Brown Hope.
Which is silly, really. I thought that was Kal Penn 😉
Update 2: Check out the video of Aishwarya on Nightline, and the rest of the 60 Minutes segment, here.
Yes, dear ST, she may be another useless media creation, but at least she is not the (p)ride of Louisiana like a certain Ms. Britney Spears.
To be completely fair about her Letterman appearance, she was much more eloquent than quite a few western actresses who have been in that very seat. It may just mean that she hadn’t downed a whole bottle of champagne before coming on, but give the woman some credit.
Sridevi and Rekha didn’t start out chandan-colored either and went through a physical transformation similar to the one you describe above – they are normal celebrities.
Also, flabby physique? Great, not only do we have to have “fair” skin by practically drowning ourselves in vats of bleach, we have to add on to our pathologies the Hollywood onus of a svelte frame? Tell that to the gorgeous curves of the average Indian woman.
We need more actresses like the late, great Smita Patil, who transcended these obsessions with color, build and hitting Hollywood. She just acted her heart out in many terrific movies and gained international attention.
Double chins which still can’t be hidden by 5 layers of makeup don’t qualify as “gorgeous curves” : http://www.santabanta.com/wallpapers/gallery1.asp?catid=3521
The vast majority of Indian girls I have seen on campus look much better than the “most beautiful woman in the world” : http://www.santabanta.com/wallpapers/gallery1.asp?catid=4462
I still think she looks amazing in that second pic.
First pic? That’s no double chin – it’s just a bad camera angle and a very prominent chin. Grab a digital camera, take a pic of your face from underneath like that, and say hello to your very own jowls.
And I wish I my physique was “flabby” like hers – maybe then I could fit into that skirt she wore on Letterman.
But you’re right about her acting skills. Ouch. Pretty doesn’t always mean talented.
She did an amazing job in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas.
Sure, pic 1 is not at a flattering angle, but that is the only way you can see the truth. You can see her flabby cheeks and very wide neck which she is attempting to conceal with her hairstyle. imho, she looks like a hog. Madhuri Dixit clearly outshined her in Devdas.
Pic 2 just looks like the typical desi fob.
ST:
“trashwarya”???
but why do you even care? your dogged, foaming-at-the-mouth hatred for this woman is astonishing. i’m dying to know what YOU look like, since you are so opinionated about others…”typical desi FOB” etc.
is that all there is to you? is one of your hobbies on friendster: “hating trashwarya!”? i’m fairly sure you’ll never have to live with her or next to her, so she shouldn’t be this much of an irritant.
don’t watch her movies, her tv interviews or look at her magazine articles. she doesn’t exist to annoy you, but right now, you sound like you exist to BE ANNOYED by her. good lord.
eofia-
Hey, cut me some slack…I’m a gay desi man…picking people apart is what we do…ever watch Queer Eye? 😉
well, shit…why didn’t you say so? it’s alll good, then. 😉
ok… have not seen Devdas, but everything else I’ve seen her in has made her out to be eye candy and not much else, even in leading roles (ahem, chokher bali)…
Will see Devdas with an open mind as soon as I have time to watch any film that isn’t for class again.
I think the whole “you look like a FOB” putdown should go
She was a pretty good dramatic lead in Raincoat, which is really a stage drama done on film.
Hopefully after 10 long years of practice she can get something right.
the dowloading links do not work………..anyone know where i could get the show copy from……..aishwarya rai is the hottest person on teh face of the earth