Should Aishwarya Rai have said no when Abhishek Bachchan proposed to her? That's an idea being floated around in the press, which lays part of the blame for Aishwarya's lack of recent hits on her 2007 marriage.
Marriage traditionally signalled the end of an Indian film actress's career, though in recent years it has instead marked a transition from "heroine" roles to those of mothers, aunts, etc. There's rarely a middle ground, and though times are changing some in the industry still refuse to cast married actresses in heroine-style roles.
Case in point is Kareena Kapoor, who was just last week dismissed from the film Ram Leela because the director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, didn't want a married woman portraying a Juliet character.
But has that thinking extended to Aishwarya's career? It's true that she hasn't had a big hit since she got married, though she's landed a variety of roles. But she's had very few "young" roles--with the exceptions of Guru and Action Replayy she's tended to play older roles, and hasn't had a solo hit in years.
The same can't be said, of course, about Bollywood's male actors, most of whom are cast as college-age characters well into their forties (ahem, Aamir Khan in Rang de Basanti and Saif Ali Khan in pretty much everything).
Is this double standard fair? Of course not. Will it change any time soon?
Of course not.
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Comments: 2 ( 1 removed by Renee Shah )
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Tell me how is this relevant today? It just came out of nowhere. This is the type of stories the media have started publishing as news? I just wonder how much Salman could be paying them to keep linking his name to Aishwarya because that must be the best thing that ever happened to him. It seems this old relationship is what has kept Salman relevant all these years. And Salman fans are two-faced. On one hand they say how much they hate Aishwarya and how she used Salman. This is their excuse for his relationships that don't work out with every woman. They even labelled Katrina a user. Even Somy Ali was blamed. Yet it's just never Salman's fault! On the other hand they can't get enough of Aish and Salman. They call her names for leaving him. They say things like thank god Salman didn't marry Aish lol no thank god Aish didn't marry Salman! Truth is they want Salman to be with Aishwarya because they know she's the best thing that ever happened to him! Sorry for the rant I've seen 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 stories of Aish and Salman since their break up and I'm tired of it. Even in Hollywood media has the decency to avoid talking about past relationships after so many years. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's relationship is not brought up everyday in the media to upset them.
I think the Salman/Aish articles have been coming out a lot this week because of that story a week or two ago about him and Katrina getting into a fight. The media will really use any chance they get to talk about Salman and Aishwarya.
I get really nasty hate mail on this site for writing the truth about Salman--that he abuses his girlfriends. You're right, his fans always have excuses for him.