Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Rai in 2006, photo by cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Aishwarya Rai
Place of Birth: Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Date of Birth: 1 November, 1973
Ethnicity: Tuluva Indian
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, previously billed as Aishwarya Rai, is an Indian actress and model. She has also starred in international films, including Bride and Predjudice and The Pink Panther 2. She also won the Miss World title in 1994. Aishwarya is able to speak several languages, including Tulu, Hindi, English, Tamil and Marathi.
Aishwarya is the daughter of Brinda and Krishnaraj Rai. She was raised in a Tulu-speaking Tuluva Bunt household. Aishwarya is married to actor Abhishek Bachchan, with whom she has a daughter. Abhishek is the son of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan.
Aishwarya’s paternal grandfather is named Ramanna Rai.
Aishwarya’s paternal grandmother is named Saraswathi Shetty (the daughter of Subbayya Shetty and Dugamma). Subbayya was the son of a man surnamed Punja, and of Marakada Parameshwari Bhandari.
Source: Genealogy of Aishwarya Rai (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
I live in Perth in the northern suburbs.
Replying to J.J’s post.
I live in Sydney’s east
Well I’ll be nicer to you J.J. :). Us Aussies have to stick together.
Not to say that I was intentionally not nice to you J.J. just a disagreement over eye colour.
haha oh it’s fine a little friendly debate never hurt any one, you’ll be amazed how many people I come across thinking green and brown is hazel and me having to tell them it’s a myth and that hazel is just light brown
Looking at her, I wouldn’t have said that she was a white woman. I would have said she was Afro-brazilian, not necessarily meaning she’s black, but that she had color in her. She’s beautiful though.
I wanted to believe those were her real eyes but all her pictures from the past show brown eyes.
http://one.obuzz.com/admin/ni/gr/big/bi-64143.jpg
http://www.nairaland.com/attachments/250424_young_ash_4_jpg82ab0cf20cf000750faa4f4aed2610eb
http://www.pinkvilla.com/files/imagecache/ContentPreview/p460.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sPrYV6qIj8o/TW007xqVMvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/8T_2wBcJlPA/s1600/aishwarya_rai.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7117/7543716712_d905936391_o.jpg
http://www.liveindia.com/ash/ash_family6.jpg
http://hochu.ua/thumbnails/articles/cropg_620x400/29171_34026.jpg
most of those pictures are blurry, the one of her from the side her eyes are light and the ones where her eyes look obviously brown look like brown contacts
I agree with you J.J. on this one. Aishwarya does in fact have the eye colour of the picture above green grey. It is well know that the picture of her with brown eyes is from a movie called Jodha Akbar where she wore brown contacts. The vast majority of Indian people have brown eyes but she is of the minority of Indians with a lighter eye colour.
She won Miss World and at that time participants weren’t allowed to wear contacts and she had the green grey eye colour. Anyway contacts would have been very obvious then because they weren’t as good as they are now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449994/trivia
she was lucky she was born with those pretty eyes, many Indians would envy her, I’ve always been meaning to as you alice, what nationality and ethnicity are you?
Yes she is a beautiful woman. I’m an Irish-Australian.
wow, I’m Australian aswell, where do you live
J J you’re in denial
dont be ridiculous an Indian would never wear Brown contacts, the brown is her natural eye colour. She had brown eyes when she was younger and her INDIAN parents have brown eyes. It’s basically impossible for her eyes to be light.
Theres a higher chance of a black kid having light eyes
http://lollitop.magicgate.eu/media/LollitopMagicgate_012/lollitop_02_848534_black_baby_with_blue_eyes_2.jpg
She did for that particular role. Not talking specifically about Indians here but people often wear contacts to fit in better with the role they are playing. Charlize Theron wore brown contacts for her role in Monster and Cillian Murphy wore brown contacts for Peacock. Just because both your parents are brown eyed doesn’t mean you can’t be blue eyed. Blue eyes are recessive so it happens a lot that brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child. Black children that have lighter coloured eyes have some European ancestry. Fully Indian people though can have lighter eyes. Look up the Punjabi people or Sikhs in Indian and see how some of them have lighter eyes.
exactly alice, Indians can have light eyes (even though it may be very rare) without a European ancestor because they carry the white gene and have traits of the white race some would even class them as Caucasian, whereas when is comes to black people some sort of Caucasian ancestor would have to exist in both parents for a light eyed gene to be activated. It’s really pathetic that people can’t accept that an indian could have naturally light eyes
Indians do not carry the “white gene” (what even is that?) Im guessing youre Indian since you think that? Just like you said about the black kid Aishwarya will need to have some caucasian ancestors if her eyes really are that colour. Unless it’s a different mutation that gives her light eyes? (possible)
and no that black kid is African so he doesnt have recent white ancestors.
oh and this is what the vast majority Indians look like. they definitely do not “carry the white gene” that black kid is more likely to carry “the white gene”
http://www.chrisjparker.co.uk/Images%20Folio/India-man-106.jpg
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/indian-man-moustache-18607622.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_twzulFt36q8/S8LZ2ZZGsDI/AAAAAAAAAIU/LNrbGQ8QXdA/s1600/indian-man-texting-m.jpg
http://www.paulstravelblog.com/images/090401/1260.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_frdQcrbMFKU/Rg_NlK4udkI/AAAAAAAABQk/JJ9L7H7vMbc/s1600-h/Tamil%2BMan.JPG
Not all East Indians look as dark as them, scott. And I wouldn’t consider them the vast majority either.
The black child you posted is an African-American so he would have European ancestry. My post is awaiting moderation but I agree that it isn’t a “white” gene but a recessive gene. I’ve explained a bit more in my post that isn’t showing yet.
those are the majority. If you ever watch documentaries about India thats what most people look like. Indians are often as dark as Africans (or Australoids – same race as Indians)
Yes the majority of Indians are dark but there are a minority that are quite a bit lighter especially in the Northern provinces. I know a lot of Bollywood actresses wear contact lenses but I don’t know why there is such controversy about Aishwarya’s eye colour. Contact lenses are quite easy to pick. Look at Paris Hilton’s eyes up close and you will see that Aishwarya’s eyes are natural.
Indians have the same mutation as Europeans because the gene spread in some Middle Eastern populations and then to the subcontinent. Have you looked at Afghan people and Pakistani people. There are quite a few of them with light eyes. What about that famous picture in National Geographic of the Afghan girl with green eyes.
http://img.labnol.org/images/2007/06/green-eye-afghan-girl-national-geographic.jpg
Here’s a girl from Nepal
http://www.thelongestwayhome.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Green-eyed-Nepalese-Girl_resize.jpg
Here is a blog with quite a few pictures of light eyed people from Napal, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Yes I agree it is not a “white” gene. They are just recessive genes that some populations have. Europeans of course have the higher amounts of blue eyes, green eyes etc but the continent of Eurasia is joined together so of course there is gene flow. Also Europe was populated originally by people coming from the East.
My comment is awating moderation but I wanted to post this above but it didn’t appear.
http://sheokhanda.wordpress.com/2011/09/
If you’re asking my ancestry it is Irish but I’m Australian.
when I say the white gene I am referring to very distant Caucasian ancestors (not European), people that were blonde hair and blue eyed in their ancestral gene pool, same way Persians & arabs have blonde haired blue eyed ancestors as they’re considered Caucasian
Scott are you crazy. I know and live among many people of Indian decent. Although the majority have brown eyes some have green eyes, some have grey eyes and their skin tones vary from milky white to black. The Indian people are classied Into three groups, the Dravidians, the negroids and the Aryans. The different groups have highly varying features. i can clearly tell that your perception of Indian people stems from what you have read and not from actually intermingling with them.
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She looks fully white.
If she looks anything other than Indian, than it would be Middle Eastern, or even Mestiza Latina like Eva Longoria. Not sure why people always jump to ‘white;’ perhaps they’re thrown off by the blue eyes, even though, while they are most common amongst Europeans, they are not exclusive to them.
Most Middle Eastern people (with the exception of Gulf Arabs) are actually even ‘whiter’ looking than her (minus the blue eyes, even though they can have them too,) such as Persians, Levantine Arabs, Turks…
The only thing that would keep me from thinking she’s Middle Eastern or Latina are her features (especially her nose,) that are common in many South Indian women.
Sure, she could pass for white, (and when I say white, I mean one of those white people mixed with Gypsy,) but, personally, looking at her, the first thing that would pop into my head would not be white.
correction; her hair and eye colour should not be listed considering too many people cannot believe that her eyes are the grey/green colour that they are, regardless of the fact they look 100% real, if they’re contacts they’re the best contacts I’ve ever seen
It’s ridiculous isn’t it? They are definitely her natural eyes and they are grey green.