Acting

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Born November 1, 1973 · Mangalore, Karnataka, India (age 52)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (born November 1, 1973) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi and Tamil cinema. After winning the Miss World 1994 pageant, she made her acting debut in the political drama *Iruvar* (1997) and entered Hindi cinema that same year with *...Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya*. Her subsequent releases included *Jeans* (1998) and *Aa Ab Laut Chalen* (1999). For her performance in …

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The Last Legion

The Last Legion · 2007

The Last Legion

MovieActionAdventure

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

The Pink Panther 2

The Pink Panther 2 · 2009

The Pink Panther 2

MovieComedyMystery

When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign Inspector Clouseau to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts.

Bride & Prejudice

Bride & Prejudice · 2004

Bride & Prejudice

MovieDramaComedy

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar · 2008

MovieRomanceHistory

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

The Mistress of Spices

The Mistress of Spices · 2005

The Mistress of Spices

MovieDramaRomance

Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.

Enthiran

Enthiran · 2010

MovieActionScience Fiction

Dr. Vaseegaran creates Chitti, a powerful robot in his own image, but it is rejected by the scientific body AIRD due to its lack of human behaviour and emotions. After a lightning strike triggers emotions in Chitti, he begins to develop human-like feelings. However, Chitti falls in love with Dr. Vaseegaran's fiancée, Sana, and turns against his creator, leading to dangerous consequences.

Mohabbatein

Mohabbatein · 2000

MovieDramaRomance

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Provoked

Provoked · 2007

Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with other women. he also subjected her to spousal rape. After ten years and having two children with him, out of fear, she sets him on fire.

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The Last Legion

The Last Legion · 2007

The Last Legion

MovieActionAdventure

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Mira

The Pink Panther 2

The Pink Panther 2 · 2009

The Pink Panther 2

MovieComedyMystery

When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign Inspector Clouseau to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts.

Sonia

Bride & Prejudice

Bride & Prejudice · 2004

Bride & Prejudice

MovieDramaComedy

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Lalita Bakshi

Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar · 2008

MovieRomanceHistory

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Rajkumari Jodhaa Bai

The Mistress of Spices

The Mistress of Spices · 2005

The Mistress of Spices

MovieDramaRomance

Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.

Tilo

Enthiran

Enthiran · 2010

MovieActionScience Fiction

Dr. Vaseegaran creates Chitti, a powerful robot in his own image, but it is rejected by the scientific body AIRD due to its lack of human behaviour and emotions. After a lightning strike triggers emotions in Chitti, he begins to develop human-like feelings. However, Chitti falls in love with Dr. Vaseegaran's fiancée, Sana, and turns against his creator, leading to dangerous consequences.

Sana

Mohabbatein

Mohabbatein · 2000

MovieDramaRomance

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Megha

Provoked

Provoked · 2007

Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with other women. he also subjected her to spousal rape. After ten years and having two children with him, out of fear, she sets him on fire.

Kiranjit Ahluwalia

Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin

Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin · 2002

Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin

MovieComedyAction

When Munna Bhai, a notorious gangster, meets Komal, he is immediately smitten. However, he must first confront her protective brother, Dr. Rastogi and her current boyfriend, Raja.

Komal Rastogi

Devdas

MovieDramaRomance

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil · 2016

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

MovieRomanceDrama

Ayan falls in love with his soulmate, Alizeh, but she doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. Later, a relationship with Saba helps him realize Alizeh’s value in his life, irrespective of their relationship status.

Saba

Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam

Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam · 2002

Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam

MovieRomanceDrama

Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.

Suman (Guest Appearance)

Shakti: The Power

Shakti: The Power · 2002

Shakti: The Power

MovieActionDrama

A couple visits the husband's family in India and finds itself in the middle of a fratricidal battle.

Special Appearance in 'Ishq Kamina' Song

Shabd

MovieRomanceThriller

Shaukat, a writer suffering from writer's block, prompts his wife to have an affair with a stranger as he seeks inspiration to write a new story. Will his wife help him write his dream novel?

Antara Vashisth/Tammana

Action Replayy

Action Replayy · 2010

MovieComedyRomance

A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage by traveling to the 1970s when their romance was budding to help make it bloom: something more complex than he expects.

Mala Malhotra

Guru

MovieDramaRomance

A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Sujata Desai

Iruvar

MovieHistoryDrama

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

Pushpavalli / Kalpana

Kandukondain Kandukondain

Kandukondain Kandukondain · 2000

Kandukondain Kandukondain

MovieDramaRomance

Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors in this modern take on Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' set in Tamil Nadu.

Meenakshi

Raavanan

Raavanan · 2010

MovieActionAdventure

After inspector Dev stirs the reign of Veeraiya, a tribal outlaw, the latter responds by kidnapping his wife, Ragini. While she tries to escape from him, Dev fights many resistances to find her.

Ragini Subramaniam

Ponniyin Selvan: Part I

Ponniyin Selvan: Part I · 2022

Ponniyin Selvan: Part I

MovieActionAdventure

The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aaditha Karikalan, his younger brother Arunmozhi Varman and the emperor, Sundara Cholar separated by situations, it is up to a messenger to ensure the safety of the kingdom. Can he succeed in his mission, especially with Karikalan's former girlfriend, Nandhini, plotting to bring down the entire Chola empire?

Nandini / Oomai Rani

Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan · 2006

MovieRomanceDrama

Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. A remake of the original directed by Muzaffar Ali and released in 1981.

Ameeran / Umrao Jaan

Dhoom 2

Dhoom 2 · 2006

MovieDramaAction

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

Sunehri

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam · 1999

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

MovieComedyDrama

A young singer falls in love with his teacher’s daughter, but their romance is tested when the girl’s parents arrange her marriage with Vanraj, which takes three of them into an unexpected journey of love, sacrifice, and selflessness.

Nandini

Jeans

MovieComedyDrama

The father of twin brothers wants to get them married to only twin sisters. But one of the brothers falls in love with a woman does not have a twin sister.

Madhumitha / Vaishnavi