Comments on: Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are married

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are married

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:01:00 -0800

Shaadi mubarak! The most beautiful woman in the world was married today. Aishwarya Rai and Abshishek Bachchan, two of India's most popular actors, tied the knot in Mumbai, amid tight security. While a comparatively modest affair, it was not without drama. Oh, you weren't invited? Well, you can still watch the bride and groom dance -- with the father-in-law, too.

By: tgyg

tgyg — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:06:05 -0800

She has man hands.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:09:06 -0800

I wouldn't care if she had man genitals. What a face.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:11:41 -0800

Abhishek! Abhishek!

By: found missing

found missing — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:14:40 -0800

She's not your mother, it's a man, baby!

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:21:04 -0800

I know a certain Mefite who is rending his garments as we speak, the little bunny-shredder.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:22:39 -0800

(bunny-shredder)

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:24:03 -0800

Her nose is slightly too angular for my taste. Because angles taste bitter.

By: acetonic

acetonic — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:31:57 -0800

Big nose, big hands. I didn't get to vote on this!

By: pax digita

pax digita — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:45:45 -0800

She's okay, but I've seen women -- Indian and otherwise -- that were more attractive to me. She's a little too perfect. Or something. (Hope it's a good, solid marriage, though. My seventeen-year odd oddysey ends in two weeks. Where's that bottle of Bushmills?)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:47:01 -0800

Overly self-conscious pretty girls are in no way beautiful in my book.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:47:34 -0800

How about that Tom Cruise and Penelope Whats-her-face?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:48:29 -0800

Indian Feminists Despair As Film Star Marries a Tree

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:58:52 -0800

I would give my right leg, nose and left eye to look like Aishwarya Rai. You people are so picky!

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:02:40 -0800

Too perfect? Man hands? How do you ever find a woman up to your standards? Okay, okay. Slightly bitter. Being compared to Rai for years just because we share similar skin tones does not a happy girl make.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:04:26 -0800

t's not "standards" with me; attractiveness is either hit or miss, and this Mrs. misses.

By: who squared

who squared — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:05:04 -0800

So, was Shah Rukh Khan invited or not?

By: Alex404

Alex404 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:14:24 -0800

I'm only throwing my two cents in because everyone's digging on her for some reason. She's hot. And the photos of her and Laetitia Casta together kind of melt the mind.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:21:04 -0800

Yes, I put the manglik link in there because it is widely believed that when Aishwarya Rai went to Varanasi with the whole Bachchan family a couple weeks ago, it was to marry a tree. Nobody has confirmed that, though. There is a manglik box to tick on Indian personals sites -- people take that very seriously. I remember Rai's manglik status being against her when people thought she would marry Salman Khan. However, there is an odd assortment of conditions that make tree-marriage unnecessary, or less important, some of which apply to her.

1. If there is a condition associated with marriage, e.g. the way Rama and Sita, Arjun and Draupadi got married. 2. If the girl is kidnapped and subsequently married. 3. If the girl’s father gives away his daughter willingly and lovingly. 4. If the girl herself proposes to a guy then it is not necessarily required to match the charts for Manglik Dosha. 5. In case of remarriage. 6. If the girl has crossed the age of 30 years, then a lot of attention should not be given to manglik dosha. 7. For a man above 50 years of age and for a woman 45 and above.

So I'm asking, what's up with #3? Is that -- unusual?

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:22:28 -0800

Man hands? Say wha?! Her hands, like the rest of her, from what I see in Bollywood movies, are exquisite. They're both real beauties. He's lovely *sigh*, though I've had a yen for Kabir Bedi for a couple of decades. He's still a handsome old fart. (I kissed him once on the cheek at a New Year's party...1984 I think it was. ahh, nice memory). homunculus, thanks so much for posting that info about the manglik thing. Superstition is a sad thing. Reading Indian matrimonials I was always mystified by the dreaded mangla. Now, finally, I comprehend at least what the hell it refers to. Thanks. Although many consider marriage to be dead and I think they're likely right, wishing these newlyweds a happy marriage and mutually loving family.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:24:47 -0800

She is a wee bit *too* perfect, but I say that out of bitterness as I'd still give any organ of choice - lacking any nuts to offer - to look like 'er.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:31:38 -0800

liquorice, I can think of fates much, much worse than being compared to Aishwarya Rai.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:31:39 -0800

She is indeed lovely.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:47:33 -0800

I've heard of Aishwarya Rai before. But my first thought when I saw her was, "She kinda looks like Layla Kayleigh..." So, honest question here: is the look of both these women, who to me look pretty similar, the "blonde bimbo in America" standard of (media acceptable) beauty in India?

By: Dataphage

Dataphage — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:50:04 -0800

This post stink of eugenics! What are THEY trying to do? THEIR children will drive OUR children out of the gene pool forever! I say they are both forced to marry average looking members of the appropriate sex.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:52:03 -0800

She is lovely. But you haven't seen My Becky, the Mother of My Baby Boy. Just saying.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:55:47 -0800

Layla Kayleigh is quite lovely, too bad about the breast implants (as far as I could tell).

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:02:27 -0800

The standard of beauty in India is considered to be whatever DOESN'T look Indian. Fair skin? Pink lips? Eyes that aren't brown? Hair that isn't black? All of these will usually get you classed as stunning over there. We all want what we can't have.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:07:19 -0800

No, I wouldn't say so. (Layla Kayleigh looks like Ayesha Takia to me) Actresses are generally shorter and more bodacious. Here is the famous tragic beauty/Marilyn Monroe figure.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:08:53 -0800

(Responding to Cyrano, got distracted by youtube!)

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:33:32 -0800

She's fine, if you like all that plastic surgery. When she was younger...

By: porpoise

porpoise — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:34:09 -0800

My standards for beauty are quite broad and, yes, she fits within the multi-dimensional continuum. However... She is not fair to outward view As other maidens be. Her loveliness I never knew, Until she smil'd on me, Until she smil'd on me. Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light, Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. But now her looks are coy and cold, To mine they ne'er reply, And yet I cease not to behold The love-light in her eye, The love-light in her eye: Her very frowns are fairer far, Than smiles of other maidens are. Her very frowns are fairer far, Than smiles of other maidens are. - Hartley Coleridge

By: Master Baiter

Master Baiter — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:47:07 -0800

Who are you trying to kid?

By: Savannah

Savannah — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:51:25 -0800

She's fine, if you like all that plastic surgery. When she was younger... Won't go. :( It just defaults to the home page.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:13:02 -0800

Mazeltoff! cent anne.

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:15:26 -0800

Savannah - I just tried it from here, it worked for me...but never mind. Better to think of her as she is now.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:20:51 -0800

Plastic surgery? For a 33-year-old? Liosliath is on drugs. Maybe the same drugs they were on when they made this song (ten years ago).

By: shoesietart

shoesietart — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:27:16 -0800

I've never understood the hoopla about Aishwarya Rai... She's beautiful but not anymore so than Angelina Jolie or Linda Evangelista and other beauties.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:48:41 -0800

Screw you guys! I would do her. I would do her so hard, every which way. And then I would do her again. 'Twould be glorious!

By: infini

infini — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:47 -0800

3. If the girl’s father gives away his daughter willingly and lovingly. methylviolet: I would interpret that as that the father has done the necessary background check of family etc and is happy overall that the daughter would go to a good home. Or has known them for years or whatever. Horoscope matching in the Indian context of arranged marriages would become more important when a marriage broker or newspaper ad is used to match the couple.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:53:25 -0800

cgc373: This is true. Getting compared to Abhishek would be worse and slightly more awkward.

By: Firas

Firas — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:56:17 -0800

HOT OR NOT? Popular Choice: Aish My Retort: Raveena Optional Retort #2: Urmila Popular Choice: Angelina My Retort: Charlize Theron Popular Choice: Kirsten My Retort: Keira My Verdict: My Taste Trumps General Populace's!

By: liquorice

liquorice — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:06:41 -0800

I would like to see these two get married and make beautiful babies. Oh, and I doubt Shah Rukh would have made an appearance, right? Hasn't she refused to even star in movies with him since their apparent falling-out?

By: spitbull

spitbull — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:25:03 -0800

The title is reserved, in my world, for CBS war correspondent Lara Logan. There's just something about running throught the streets of Baghdad dodging bullets while still managing to look like this (in a bulletproof vest!) that does if for me. it's easy to be beautiful if you're pretty and a model/actress whose entire job is to look good. i'm more impressed when it's worn nonchalantly while doing something meaningful. Nothing wrong with Rai. Truly, there is no "most beautiful woman." There endless variety of forms beauty is its greatest mystery.

By: Firas

Firas — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:59:56 -0800

Well said, Sir.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes Then, then, (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh, how that glittering taketh me! — Robert Herrick

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:01:40 -0800

Aishwarya looks like the kind of girl that other women would find attractive. So I'm not surprised in the least that most of the "nays" have been coming from MeFiMales, while most of the "you crazies!" have been coming form MeFeMales.

By: Firas

Firas — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:03:03 -0800

porpoise, one of the neatest poems in that vein is Shakespeare's My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun sonnet.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:58:21 -0800

Mazel Tov! (Indian (Hindu?) weddings are so over-the-top--i love them!)

By: jayder

jayder — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:00:14 -0800

I'm a guy, and claims about the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World" always get me laughing, in the way I chuckle at ignorant meatheads who pine for a date with Carmen Electra. Such claims are as creditable as someone saying that the top-selling novel ever (isn't it a John Grisham title?) is THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD. I don't know if I'm weird in this way, but I have always thought that, for example, the slightly mousy girl with glasses who works just down the hall, and doesn't seem to know she's cute, is infinitely more intriguing and attactive than the plastic, mediagenic "beauties" like Carmen Electra. (Well, that's the way I felt before getting married, and now I only have eyes for my beautiful wife... of course.)

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:34:09 -0800

You guys haven't seen Aishwarya Rai in real life. I have. From a crowd. At a certain public event, some six years back in a certain part of India. I still remember that day vividly. Let's just say that one way to grow out of your teenage crushes is to see kilos of face-paint on her from close-quarters. Hearing her exhibit a neanderthal-isque intellect in her speeches only hastens the process. In short, completely bleh about the media frenzy.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:14:21 -0800

I don't know about the most beautiful woman in the world, and I can't speak to what she looks like in real life, but in terms of the photos I'm seeing, she certainly looks lovely to me.

By: davy

davy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:01:25 -0800

Her jaw's a little too square, her chin's a bit too small, and most importantly I prefer women who look good without makeup -- my "SO" never wears it. (Methyl dear, you'd get this one all to yourself.) As to my usual taste, what jayder said.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:16:32 -0800

Are people here extra stupid or something? Rai is the hotness. Meow.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:20:03 -0800

Oh, and Madhuri Dixit is also the hotness. I haven't heard Choli Ke Peeche in ages.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:51:00 -0800

Meh. I've been rejected by better. I hope the best for the bride and groom, even though we all know it will end in tears and headlines and papparazzi and people telling us that she was once one of the most beautiful women in the world ever but look how she let herself go what a shame isn't it Jane yes it is Tom and now we go to Bob with sports! What little I saw of that Bob Simon interview - and how cringeworthy was that huh he's gotta be older than her grandfather and he's drooling all over the screen anyway - I'd say this woman as pretty as she is would be about as interesting to talk to as a potted plant.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:52:40 -0800

Yeah, yeah -- you guys keep on rockin' with the inner beauty. As far as our girl being unintelligent, who cares? Stephen Hawking isn't handsome. Michael Jordan can't cook. She is welcome to be as dumb as a box of rocks, for me. She's making her contribution; she's got to leave something for the rest of humanity to do. As Madhuri Dixit (who I am proud to say is an American now! In your face Indian gene pool! USA! USA!) is asked in the clip above: What should the bride be like? What should the groom be like? She replies: A bride like me, a groom like you could taste the joys of love. She means, of course, listening to NPR.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:58:01 -0800

And thanks, Infini -- that makes sense.

By: Ber

Ber — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:21:55 -0800

I hate to sound like I wandered in off the streets of Fark but meh, she does nothing for me. Beauty is subjective anyway.

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:38:47 -0800

"Plastic surgery? For a 33-year-old? Liosliath is on drugs. Maybe the same drugs they were on when they made this song (ten years ago). posted by Methylviolet at 8:20 PM on April 20" Don't think I ever specified how old she was when she had plastic surgery...though I might want to take you up on the drug offer, 'cause whatever you're on must be pretty good. Apparently the nose job happened around 95-96.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:54:21 -0800

All professional beauties seem to get the old plastic surgery accusation thrown at them -- as if to say they are fake, not really beautiful. It smacks of sour grapes. And of course, misogyny. "Here's the impossible standard of beauty to which all women must aspire. Oh, you meet the standard? Hmph, well, you must be fake." You didn't say how old she was, no, but she is 33 now. Plastic surgery is not a crime; if she had it, whatever. Good for her. But I doubt she did. If you have a before-and-after, I'd love to see it. All brides are beautiful, this one particularly so. Either back up your allegation, or ask yourself why you feel the need to make it in a thread about the woman's wedding day.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:58:29 -0800

I found the early pictures of Aishwarya and have spent far too much time peering at them trying to figure out if she's had plastic surgery and if her eyes are really that colour. Then I looked at large image size files from the present date. Can't tell. At any rate, what I said to my husband about three years ago still stands: My god, that's the most beautiful woman in the world.

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:26:56 -0800

First, it would be difficult for me to exhibit any characteristics of a misogynist, since I'm female. AR looks fine to me, I just don't think she's "the most beautiful woman in the world," despite how much that gets thrown around in the media. As for bringing up the plastic surgery, this thread is about a lot more than her wedding day, isn't it? Like your manglik link...which wedding are we referring to, exactly? And why do you care so much? If she's the pinnacle of the "impossible standard of beauty" for you, I think that speaks more to your misogynistic mindset, not mine. For me, I don't think women have to look like that to be beautiful.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:40:48 -0800

There, there, dollface. You are beautiful when you're angry.

By: found missing

found missing — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:23 -0800

I don't care that she used to be a man and that people are talking about it behind her back at her wedding. To me, she has an inner beauty that makes her the most innerly beautiful woman in the world.

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:54 -0800

Small caveat...during the "moonlit encounter" scene in Devdas, I would find it hard to deny that she's incredibly lovely.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:07:24 -0800

This scene. I was just kidding there, Liosliath. I'm a woman too. And you're right, I care waaay too much. Bollywood has blown my mind permanently -- I cannot express how much joy these songs give me. But I am always trying, and half-an-hour later saying, "Don't get me started."

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:16:26 -0800

I love that scene, (particularly her Mom's coquettish gestures), but I meant the scene where she's "sleeping" out on an open veranda, Devdas happens by (amazing coincidence), and the moonlight falls gently down on her face. Wait...that was Devdas, right? I keep renting Bollywood flicks, so I may have the plots all mixed up.

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:22:19 -0800

Oh yeah, here it is, first scene in the group.

By: Firas

Firas — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:21:46 -0800

By: amberglow

homunculus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:05:33 -0800

When Hollywood Meets Bollywood: Why Richard Gere is in Legal Trouble in India over a Kiss

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:18:57 -0800

I saw video of Gere and Shetty--he went way way beyond just a kiss--he was all over her and grabby and wouldn't let go, even when she froze and made it clear it wasn't right or comfortable.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:12:28 -0800

It was an interesting article, Homunculus. Ironically, while images of rape are often included in movies in India, images of kissing were not permitted until the mid-1970s. That makes a certain kind of sense to me, though I don't like that it does. That lawyer doesn't know her BW though. < *comic book guy voice*> "The first wet sari scene was shot in 1913 and directors only moved on in the 1970s when Dimple Kapadia, in the film Bobby made India blush..." (see Infini's BW post) Here are Madhubala and Nargis (with Raj) in wet saris in the 50's. Except that nobody has moved on -- the wet sari scene is evergreen. I could make an all-wet-sari FPP in fact. Do you dare me? Cause I will. < */voice*> Previously... Inhi logon inhi logon ne le lii na dupatta ka Shilpa... Rather like Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, I think. Phooey.

By: infini

infini — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:20:44 -0800

frankly, if gere or anyone caught me in indian public and did all that I'd die of embarressment too. while the activity itself might be considered 'harmless' the context in which it is done is harmful or rather could have led to problems. as they did. shetty was responding instinctively, having been brought up in india