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Aishwarya Rai: Hot on Internet – most popular are Ash’s exposed pics
According to most Internet survey and Web search statistics, Ash’s exposed photos are the most seen pages in the Internet.
Recently the MSN rated Shahrukh Khan as the most searched male-actor on MSN search engine After that they conducted a survey on the actresses and the results showed that Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is among the most-searched people on MSN's search engine.
Aishwarya Rai's Bollywood career is not as luminous as her beauty. Critics feel that Ash is too poised to mature into a better actress. She has appeared in around 30 films so far but failed to create a place for herself as an actress of substance in the filmdom.
But at the same time one can’t ignore the fact that she has made in roads in Hollywood. She forayed into Hollywood with Gurinder Chaddha's Bride and Prejudice. That Michael Doughlas came all the way to India to sign her in his next film, Romancing the Monsoon, substantiate the rumour that Hollywood filmmakers are eager to sign the queen bee.
Recently she appeared on late night talk-show, host David Letterman's Show, and one hopes that it might have broken the glass ceiling that existed between Bollywood and Hollywood. Going back to MSN, Rai is among the "top search movers" on MSN's Popular Searches.
She ranks third in a list that includes Mars Rover 1, Super Bowl Commercials, Black History Month, and Ossie Davis, an African American actor who recently died.
"It is a big deal for a desi to become so hot on the Internet," said Vivek Wadhwa, an IT businessman from North Carolina currently involved in the production and release of the movie My Bollywood Bride starring Jason Lewis and Kashmira Shah.
"Bride and Prejudice may or may not be a great movie but it is opening up doors in a big way for Bollywood and Indians," said Wadhwa, who writes a column in Business Week recounting his experiences in the foray into Hollywood and Bollywood.
"All this publicity Aishwarya is getting is wonderful. I know that from our side, we started with a lot of interest and now with all this attention that Bollywood is getting, we are having distributors breaking down our doors to do deals with us," Wadhwa said.
Wadhwa and others believe the cultural pendulum in the film world is swinging from East to West and that includes financing of films.
"During our time, it was the reverse, we were influenced by Western culture. Now it's the West's turn to learn about us, watch our films and listen to our music," Wadhwa said
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