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HINDI film star Aamir Khan’s latest venture, “The Rising”, is being sold to British audiences with the assurance that it features reigning Hindi film queen, Aishwarya Rai, but she had declined when the makers refused to give her more than a bare outline of her character and plot.

`The Rising" depicts India’s first uprising against British rule in 1857.

The film’s leading stars are Aamir Khan, Toby Stephens, Rani Mukherjee and Amisha Patel.


Aishwarya Rai wrongly mentioned in cast

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Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has been invited to kick-start a campaign of immunisation against polio in Pakistan.

The Indian actress is acting as ambassadors for the polio campaign. Functions will be held in Pakistan and India highlighting the need to wipe out the disease. Rai and Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan are high-profile ambassadors for the anti-polio campaign, appearing in TV and print advertisments.

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Aishwarya Rai’s Mistress of Spices will open the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005 .

Aishwarya Rai is poised to make a splash in the international media with the opening of her film Mistress of Spices in the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005. Directed and Written by Paul Mayeda Burgess, Gurinder Chadha’s husband.

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Aishwarya Rai perceived as the global face of India.

Anil Sharma (Gadar fame) is remaking Nutan-Ashok Kumar-Sunil Dutt starrer Bandini and Ash is playing the pivotal role of Nutan.

JP Dutta’s Umrao Jaan and Maharani Gayatri Devi, Ketan Mehta’s Jhansi Ki Rani, Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodha-Akbar, Rajkumar Santoshi’s Prithiviraj Samyukta, and two untitled films by filmmakers Dharmesh Darshan and Sanjay Leela Bansali.

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