Aishwarya
Got
Her
First
Movie
Offer
When
She
Was
Preparing
For
Miss
World
Not
many
are
aware
that
even
before
Aishwarya
became
Miss
World,
she
got
many
offers
from
Bollywood.
Top
Filmmakers
Were
After
Her
She
told
a
daily,
"I
participated
in
Miss
India
in
1994
and
then
took
a
break
for
a
year
to
go
to
'Miss
World'.
By
this
time,
top
filmmakers
had
started
talking
to
me,
including
Yash
Chopraji
and
Shekhar
Kapur.''
Why
She
Chose
Iruvar
As
Her
First
Movie
"Mani
Ratnam
was
one
of
the
filmmakers
who
always
drove
me
nuts.
I
had
many
offers
to
do
top
Bollywood
films,
so
I
didn't
choose
a
Tamil
film
as
I
didn't
have
work,
but
I
wanted
to
work
with
Mani
Ratnam
and
signed
my
first
film
Iruvar
in
Tamil."
She
Made
Her
Bollywood
Debut
With
Aur
Pyaar
Ho
Gaya
Aishwarya
Rai
Bachchan
made
her
Bollywood
debut
opposite
Bobby
Deol
in
Aur
Pyaar
Ho
Gaya.
The
film
bombed
badly
at
the
box
office.
But
Aishwarya
Does
Not
Regret
Her
Decision
''A
lot
of
the
choices
I
made
would
flummox
a
lot
of
people
as
they
were
against
the
natural
choices
of
the
secure
box
office
projects,
but
those
films
always
find
the
first
mention
in
any
interactions,
creatively,
on
our
turf,
beyond
our
shores,
at
airports
and
with
audiences.
I
am
very
proud
of
all
of
them.''
How
She
Came
Into
Movies?
''While
I
was
born
in
Mangalore,
I
lived
my
entire
life
in
Mumbai.
I
went
to
Arya
Vidya
Mandir
(Santacruz)
and
then
to
junior
college
at
Jai
Hind
and
Ruparel
College.
While
I
wanted
to
do
my
medicine
and
all
my
best
friends
are
doctors,
last
minute
I
switched
to
architecture
as
I
thought
I
was
also
artistically
inclined.''
One
Photoshoot
Changed
Her
Life
''One
of
my
professors
in
college
who
had
cancer
was
also
a
photojournalist,
so
she
requested
me
to
do
a
photoshoot
for
her.
I
actually
did
it
just
for
her,
given
her
situation
but
the
professionals
who
were
there
on
set
saw
me
and
word
spread
like
wildfire
and
the
whole
business
was
constantly
asking
me
to
join
it.''
Aishwarya
Was
Meant
For
Bollywood
''Having
lived
in
Bandra,
everyone
was
around
there
so
there
were
so
many
people
after
me
and
they
all
thought
that
I
was
meant
to
come
here.''
Shekhar
Kapoor
Had
Predicted
Her
Future
''Shekhar
Kapoor
told
me,
'Look,
I
have
also
done
my
chartered
accountancy
and
I
know
what
you
are
thinking,
but
this
is
going
to
be
your
reality.''
''Complete
your
degree
if
this
is
what
you
think
is
the
natural
course
of
your
life,
but
this
is
where
you
will
be.' Instinctively,
I
just
felt
that
life
was
going
to
change
just
like
I
had
felt
when
I
first
modelled.''
I
Realised
Life
Will
Never
Be
The
Same
Again
''It's
not
that
oh
I
am
going
to
make
it,
but
it
was
just
that
life
was
going
to
change.
So,
I
just
went
with
the
flow.
I
became
'Miss
World'
and
I
was
out
of
my
course
for
a
year.
When
I
returned
to
college
for
felicitation,
I
realised
that
it
would
never
ever
be
the
same
again
for
me.''
I
Could
Not
Have
Remained
A
Normal
Student
Anymore
''I
could
not
have
remained
a
normal
student
anymore.
I
had
already
done
my
first
commercial
with
Aamir
Khan
and
the
energy
around
me
had
been
very
strong.''