Beautiful Aishwarya Rai at Cannes

Several celebrities attended the Red Carpet ceremony to mark the opening of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival this evening. They included Aishwarya Rai, who has been a permanent Cannes attendee for many years, since her movie, Devdas screened at the Festival in 2002. Some of the others who were part of the opening night celebration were the lead stars of the inaugural film Robin Hood.

Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchet. Salma Hayek, the sultry actress from Mexico who was part of the Festival jury along with India's Nandita Das in 2005, was also to be seen. Incidentally, Hollywood stars were conspicuously absent in a year that is gladly being seen by cinema lovers and critics as low on spice and sugar and high on art.

Rai is here as part of Mani Ratnam's Ravan, whose first look will be unveiled on May 17. Actors Abhishek Bachchan and Vikram (who performs in the Tamil version) will attend the evening along with Mani Ratnam. The bilingual work has been produced by Reliance Big Pictures and is slated for a June release.

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Aishwarya Rai at the 63rd Cannes film festival

The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival is being held from May 12 to May 23, 2010, in Cannes, France.The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was first founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award. The recipient of the Palme d'Or award is selected by the festivals jury members who review film's screened in competition. American film director Tim Burton will be the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition include actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro and Alexandre Desplat.

Aishwarya Rai beautiful pictures

Aishwarya Rai is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994.Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She came to the attention of Bollywood in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare. After a low phase in her career during 2003-2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially successful and got her critical acclaim. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Indian film industry.During her career, Rai has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali including the international productions Bride & Prejudice (2004), The Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009) in English.