Word: rai
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...refused to leave and he was acting violent,” Rai said, adding that Colono was using profane language and appeared to be intoxicated. Police were called, but Colono left before they arrived...
ENGAGED. India's wildly popular screen couple, Aishwarya Rai, 33, a former Miss World, and Abhishek Bachchan, 31, hunky son of film legend Amitabh Bachchan; in a private ceremony; in Mumbai. The Bollywood hotties, whose relationship had fueled gossip in Indian papers for months, have appeared together in several films, most recently the rags-to-riches tale Guru, which premiered in New York City...
Taken separately, the two stories on the front page of the Times of India last Monday at first seem like so much fluff. There was the long-anticipated news that actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan will soon tie the knot. Below it, jostling for space with a piece about the Soduku craze sweeping India, was the revelation from a new biography that the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, conducted some sort of love affair with Saraladevi Chaudhuri, the married niece of acclaimed Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore...
...rough up young couples holding hands in public parks. Over the past few years a group of Hindu nationalists around the country have burned Valentine's Day cards and branded the festival "cultural corruption." Kissing still raises eyebrows when depicted in big Bollywood movies. Even the announcement of Rai and Bachchan's impending nuptials brought an old-fashioned reaction from his father, the Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan senior described his son's fiancee, who has mixed beauty with business savvy to create a small fortune of her own, as a "simple, traditional and a home-loving individual...
...Just 30, he plays the character from his early 20s to his 60s and is persuasive for most of that span, though I wouldn't have minded if his dad had taken over in the later scenes. (Amitabh wouldn't agree. He said recently: "My father [the poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan] wrote in his biography, ?When a father loses to his son, it is his greatest victory!' I've lost to my son! And I'm the happiest father alive!") Early in the film, Abhishek uses his dimples to underline the notion of innocent ambition. As the character ages, Abhishek...