Boy, what a letdown. Aish, sporting an atrocious outfit and an even atrociouser accent. Croaking out the last word of each sentence with a funny sounding drawl… Indiaaa and Bombayyy. And then, there was this.: At random instants, without perceivable external stimulus , she would start off this routine that consisted of rolling her eyes at Letterman, followed by rolling her eyes at the audience, then capped off with some laughter.
A completely perplexed Letterman did manage to get a couple of questions across. And got a couple of ferocious sounding replies in return. Innocent sounding softballs (“Were you a young girl when you started modeling?”) that got hurled right back at him, with an eye rolling thrown in for good measure. There was a clip from Bride and Prejudice with a wooden Aishwarya in the swimming pool — I heard something about some dude wanting to see India without seeing the Indians, and there was a whole lot of confusion over his nationality … I was too busy wishing for the camera to pan downwards to hear properly. And no, it didn’t.
Manish over at Sepiamutiny seems to think Aish was off color because she took herself too seriously, but methinks she was just being her true self: a bimbo.
Update : This review on Time tells it like it is.
In the lead role, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai is pretty as a picture–a still picture. She appears always to be fluffing her hair for the next fashion shoot. She’s got moves on the dance floor; and in the sumptuous and catchy score by Añu Malik and Craig Pruess, she smartly sells a few numbers that try to update the Austen ethos (“I just wanna man who gives some back/ Who talks to me and not my rack”). What she can’t yet do is suggest a complex spirit behind the lovely façade.
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aishwarya is the worlds most beautiful woman…she never said she was the words smartest.…so what she has her own personality…she doesnt try to be super intelligent…shes relaxed and is herself.…and most of you dissing her …go buy all the make up you want.…and wear all the designer clothing but you will never ever look even half as good as her
Ummm… interesting point, but I am the wrong sex for make up.
Haha! That was funny and quite witty, I must say, Karthik! “Wrong sex for make up”! Hehe!
That’s all her fans think.
That anyone that thinks she isn’t “da curry bomb” that the person is automatically a fugly gal whose emotional range is in the vicinity of “jealous”, “envious”, and “covetous”.
Hehe.
“Methinks she’s a Bimbo”. I must quote you one day! Please trash her some more! I’d love to read it!