Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has become the talk of the town after her fleeting visit here last week.Her host was a politician who was not identified and owns a country villa where Aishwarya spent her brief vacation, The News said.
"Islamabadites believe that the intellectual student of yesterday who has blossomed into a fine actress today was in the city for three days on a hush-hush trip.
"Her (host) owns a farmhouse in the federal capital and that is where it is believed that Ash is thought to have spent her short vacation," the daily reported.
In the past too, Bollywood stars like Juhi Chawla, Malaika Arora and many others had visited their friends in Pakistan.
"Some made their trips public while others kept a low profile. Butwhatever Bollywood actresses wish, their presence in town has been known sooner or later in that part of the world," News said.
MUMBAI: All of last week the world was agog with stories of Islamabad witnessing an overwhelming heat wave. And it wasn’t the effect of any natural global warming. The heat was generated by a news agency report that our gorgeous cat-eyed Bollywood beauty, Aishwarya Rai, had made a clandestine visit to Islamabad for a quick getaway from her backbreaking London shooting schedule. Obviously the lovely lass still wasn’t quite in a mood to appease her huge Pakistani fan following, because she has followed up the reports with total denial.
Ash seemed to be utterly surprised at these reports and was ready with her version of the story, of having never visited the neighbouring country. In a statement denying the news that appeared in a Pakistan daily, The News, Aishwarya clarified, “I am completely flabbergasted at these stories. I have never visited Pakistan. And it is not on my agenda in the near future simply because of my shooting schedule. Come on, any Indian celebrity visiting Pakistan would be such a great PR exercise for both the nations that it would be splashed all over. It is simply not true. Of course, sometime in the future I would love to visit Pakistan as an ambassador of goodwill for India. Why not?” Aishwarya’s mother, Vrinda Rai, who recently penned the story for their home production, Dil Ka Rishta added emphatically, “If Aishwarya would have gone to Pakistan, wouldn’t there have been a media splash? There’s not a single picture anywhere that substantiates her visit. She’s been in London all this while shooting for Bride and Prejudice at breakneck speed. Director Gurinder Chadha wouldn’t let Ash leave the shoot and fly off for a vacation. It is all untrue.” So there rests the ‘beauty-diplomacy’ theory. Maybe when all else fails, then India can cash in on Ash and those ‘disarming’ good looks.
MUMBAI: All of last week the world was agog with stories of Islamabad witnessing an overwhelming heat wave. And it wasn’t the effect of any natural global warming. The heat was generated by a news agency report that our gorgeous cat-eyed Bollywood beauty, Aishwarya Rai, had made a clandestine visit to Islamabad for a quick getaway from her backbreaking London shooting schedule. Obviously the lovely lass still wasn’t quite in a mood to appease her huge Pakistani fan following, because she has followed up the reports with total denial.
Ash seemed to be utterly surprised at these reports and was ready with her version of the story, of having never visited the neighbouring country. In a statement denying the news that appeared in a Pakistan daily, The News, Aishwarya clarified, “I am completely flabbergasted at these stories. I have never visited Pakistan. And it is not on my agenda in the near future simply because of my shooting schedule. Come on, any Indian celebrity visiting Pakistan would be such a great PR exercise for both the nations that it would be splashed all over. It is simply not true. Of course, sometime in the future I would love to visit Pakistan as an ambassador of goodwill for India. Why not?” Aishwarya’s mother, Vrinda Rai, who recently penned the story for their home production, Dil Ka Rishta added emphatically, “If Aishwarya would have gone to Pakistan, wouldn’t there have been a media splash? There’s not a single picture anywhere that substantiates her visit. She’s been in London all this while shooting for Bride and Prejudice at breakneck speed. Director Gurinder Chadha wouldn’t let Ash leave the shoot and fly off for a vacation. It is all untrue.” So there rests the ‘beauty-diplomacy’ theory. Maybe when all else fails, then India can cash in on Ash and those ‘disarming’ good looks.
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Aishwarya Rai refutes media reports of her visit to Pakistan
Mumbai,Wednesday, August 20, 2003: Leading Bollywood actress, Aishwarya Rai, today refuted media reports of her secret visit to Pakistan, terming them as "false and baseless."
"A ridiculously baseless note, claiming me to be in Pakistan, at politician's/diplomat's/house on a break for three days--is one big figment of someone's wild, almost suspect imagination," the actress, who was shooting for a film in London, said in a statement, forwarded by Subrota Roy Sahara, Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar to the media. "Why would such a claim be made, of someone like me (dare I say a fairly renowned recognizable face) when I am obviously shooting in another country--in London. I haven't been to Pakistan ever," the actress, who is currently shooting for Bride and Prejudice, added. "This time they have gone too far and crossed all limits of decency with such ugly insinuations. This is serious--and if ignored, could then encourage many more such probabilities, which is absolutely not acceptable," she said. "The media has no right to go ahead and print some speculation of such serious insinuations/attack/question the dignity and self respect of a lady... with political innuendos...A wrong suggestion by the media today, if ignored, could take the shape of some other worse situation tomorrow--and the media cannot and must not be so irresponsible towards their national personalities," she said.
people...why does she make it sound as if its a bad thing to have been in pakistan??? its only a rumor. she's a star, she should be used to such things. i'm sure she's heard worse. she calls the rumor an 'ugly insinuation.' what does that mean? that its bad (being an indian) to be associated with pakistan?? how come its okay for adnan sami, nusrat fateh ali khan, and many more to go to india yet its not okay for miss ashwariya to be RUMORED to have been in pakistan???!! she could have said, she plans/hopes to someday come to pakistan and what not, but instead she chose to react like its blasphamy to be even associated with pakistan. i might be wrong, but thats the way she's come off in this statement. and if thats the case....her stock has dropped in my eyes.
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Aishwarya Rai refutes media reports of her visit to Pakistan
Mumbai,Wednesday, August 20, 2003: Leading Bollywood actress, Aishwarya Rai, today refuted media reports of her secret visit to Pakistan, terming them as "false and baseless."
"A ridiculously baseless note, claiming me to be in Pakistan, at politician's/diplomat's/house on a break for three days--is one big figment of someone's wild, almost suspect imagination," the actress, who was shooting for a film in London, said in a statement, forwarded by Subrota Roy Sahara, Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar to the media. "Why would such a claim be made, of someone like me (dare I say a fairly renowned recognizable face) when I am obviously shooting in another country--in London. I haven't been to Pakistan ever," the actress, who is currently shooting for Bride and Prejudice, added. "This time they have gone too far and crossed all limits of decency with such ugly insinuations. This is serious--and if ignored, could then encourage many more such probabilities, which is absolutely not acceptable," she said. "The media has no right to go ahead and print some speculation of such serious insinuations/attack/question the dignity and self respect of a lady... with political innuendos...A wrong suggestion by the media today, if ignored, could take the shape of some other worse situation tomorrow--and the media cannot and must not be so irresponsible towards their national personalities," she said.
people...why does she make it sound as if its a bad thing to have been in pakistan??? its only a rumor. she's a star, she should be used to such things. i'm sure she's heard worse. she calls the rumor an 'ugly insinuation.' what does that mean? that its bad (being an indian) to be associated with pakistan?? how come its okay for adnan sami, nusrat fateh ali khan, and many more to go to india yet its not okay for miss ashwariya to be RUMORED to have been in pakistan???!! she could have said, she plans/hopes to someday come to pakistan and what not, but instead she chose to react like its blasphamy to be even associated with pakistan. i might be wrong, but thats the way she's come off in this statement. and if thats the case....her stock has dropped in my eyes.
i think she was reacting about the staying at the politician's house thing. not the pakistan issue.
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