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
Well technically Indians are biologically Caucasian anyway. Skin colour doesn’t define race, bone structure does.
Beautiful Indian woman.
She’s very beautiful indeed! Her caste claim descent from the Iranian Scythians who settled in Southern India and Britain as soldiers in the Roman army and included in the King Arthur myth. Plus, we know blue eyes originate from Ukraine where the Scythians came from to settle in India.
No bunts don’t claim descent from iranaians or Scythians or whatever. They are south indian landowning caste and were even considered lower caste for a while. Everyone has aryan steppe ancestry in varying amounts in India barring the sino -tibetans in the north east, and the paniyan tribe of kerala. A very typical Indian nay south indian face like aishwarya’s with a recessive feature such as lighter eyes is deemed as ExOtIc IrAnIAn SyThIan tribe, then i wonder what would actual central asian looking people like jats and rors of haryana who’ve been here for 4000 years
not only mixed with portuguese people, with british people, too.
What a beautiful Indian goddess. She looks mixed with Persian not European.
Yes! I agree with you abbracci plus her caste the Bunts are said to be partially descended from the Indo-Scythians that settled in India like me.
Why is it? Persians partially descend from the original Aryans, Kamboja, Scythians who carried the gene for light eyes at a high %. Plus, light eyes are rare among Punjabis, but in my family I have 35 close relatives with this trait and it’s no surprise my caste has the highest % of foreign ancestry in India.
She’s pretty but she doesn’t look full indian. I thought she was half white or a mixed latina girl.
There are many looks of Indians. Read a book
She doesn’t look either of them. She looks Indian.