I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

" Nonetheless her performance earned her a sixth Filmfare Award nomination in the Best Actress category. The couple married on 20 April 2007 according to traditional Hindu rites of the Bunt community to which Aishwarya Rai belongs. A commercial success the film earned Rai praise for her dancing skills.

Her off-screen roles include duties as a brand ambassador for several charity organisations and campaigns; Aishwarya Rai is a Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). She was awarded with the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2012. She won the Miss India and Miss World pageants of 1994 and has received two Filmfare Awards two Screen Awards and two IIFA Awards for her performances in Hindi films of Bollywood.