Aishwarya Rai, Akshay among Padma award receivers

NEW DELHI: Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil
Kakodkar, a

key architect of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai

Bachchan and actor Akshay Kumar were among the 62 personalities who received

the Padma awards on Monday.

Famous playback singer of yesteryear Shamshad Begum and director of the

central board of Reserve Bank of India Ashok Shekhar Ganguly are among

prominent persons to get the award from President Pratibha Patil on Monday at

a special function in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Patil conferred the Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second highest civilian

award, to Kakodkar for his contributions in the field of nuclear science and

technology during the function attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of other dignitaries. Kakodkar was actively

involved in the Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.

Ashok Shekhar Ganguly, a director of the central board of Reserve Bank of

India, was also awarded with the Padma Vibhushan on the occasion. Ganguly is

also a member of Prime Minister’s council on trade and industry and a member

of National knowledge Commission.

The other Padma Vibhushan award winners are Chandrika Prasad Srivastava,

secretary general of International Maritime Organisation, UN, eminent civil

servant Govind Narain and noted bio-medical scientist Prof Jasbir Singh Bajaj.

Former superior general of the Missionaries of Charity Sister Nirmala, who

was selected for Padma Vibhushan award, was not present at the function.

Padma Bhushan recipients include L&T chairman Anilkumar Manibhai Naik,

management guru C K Prahalad, eminent Tamil writer D Jayakanthan, Ayurvedic

physician Vaidya Devendra Triguna, leading film personality G Krishna, member

of Northeastern Council Inderjit Kaur Barthakur and Planning Commission member

Kirit Shantilal Parikh.

Litterateur Kunwar Narain, academician Minoru Hara, playback singer

Shamshad Begum, INTACH chairman S K Mishra, danseuse V P Dhananjayan and his

wife Shanta Dhananjayan and well-known sculptor and architect Vaidyanathan

Ganapati Sthapati were also conferred with Padma Bhushan awards.

Similarly, the Padma Shri awards were received by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

and Akshay Kumar, Ashok Kumar Grover, Abhaya Chhajlani, Ashok Kumar Gupta, B R

Setty, Bansilal Rathi, Birendranath Datta, C K Menon, Devinder Singh Rana, G

Vijayaraghavan and Geeta Kapoor.

The Padma Shri award winners who were present at the function include Geshe

Ngawang Sampen, Govind Ram Nirmalkar, Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav,

Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma, Hashmat Ullah Khan, Iravatham Mahadevan, Jalees

Ahmed Khan Tareen, John Ralston Marr and K Viswanthan.

The Padma Shri list also includes K P Udayabhanu, Kalamndalam Gopi,

Kanneganti Brahmanandam, Kiran Seth, Kumar Sanu, Laxman Mane, Mattannoor

Sankarankutty Marar, Niranjan Goswami, Bhai Nirmal Singh Khals, Norden

Tshering Bhutian and Panchapakesa Jayaraman.

Penaz Doli Masani, Prakash Narain Dubey, Pratapaditya Pal, R K Krishna

Kumar, Ram Kishore Chhipa, Shaik Khader Noordeen, Sashi Despande, Shyamlha

Pappu, Sunil Kanti Roy, Sunny Varkey, Suresh Dutta, Surinder Mehta and Uash

Gulati also received Padma Shri awards.

Big B proud of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

March 31st, 2009 - 2:50 pm ICT by sampurn

Last year it was dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit-Nene who received the
prestigious award Padma Shri from the President of India and now this time
around its going to be Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who would be honoured with this
award.

Amitabh Bachchan speaks on this eve and feels proud of her bahu Aishwarya

“I would rush to be in time for the President’s Award Ceremony at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan, where Aishwarya will be honoured with the Padma Shri. It’s
a moment of great pride for all of us.”

Further the legendry actor speaks, “She will become the 5th Padma Award in
our household. My Father with the Padma Bhushan the first, then the Padma Shri
for me, followed again by the Padma Bhushan to me some years later, Jaya’s
Padma Shri and now Aishwarya’s. This must be a record for the country. 5 Padma
Awards in one family. God has been very kind to us. The people of this land
have been very kind to us. We are humbled and with bended knee and bowed heads
acknowledge your affection and care and love.”

Padma Awards were announced on the eve of the Republic Day. Aishwarya is
the youngest person to ever achieve this honour from the film fraternity.
Apart from her even Akshay Kumar’s name was also announced for this
recognition. -Sampurn Media

Robot Rajini romances Aishwarya

Remember director Shankar’s previous film ‘Anniyan’, in which Vikram’s character of Ambi transforms to Remo just to win his childhood love, Gayathri’s (played by Sadha) affection?

If reports are to be believed, it is a very similar premise upon which the Robot Rajini is created in ‘Endhiran’. Rajini plays a scientist cum professor in a college and is smitten by Aishwarya Rai. But the actress does not reciprocate and this is when Rajini receives an offer to make a robot. The professor uses this chance to create a robot which is his look alike and makes it modern for Ash to like.

Scenes in the film, which show the robot Rajini buying modern clothes in City Centre or styling its hair in a posh salon in Adyar are said to be thorough complete laugh riots, also similar to Rajini dabbing Fair and Lovely or doing face packs to look fair in ‘Sivaji’-The Boss’.

‘Endhiran’, produced by Sun Network, is director Shankar’s second film each with Rajini and Aishwarya Rai. Raju Sundaram has choreographed for professor Rajini for a song while Lawrence has choreographed for the Robot Rajini. Grapevine also has it that Shankar might seek the help of renowned Indian Hollywood filmmaker, Manoj Night Shyamalan, in making this film.

Aishwarya Rai wants to have Babies

Bollywood's

reigning queen aka most beautiful woman in the world Aishwarya Rai let slip a
teeny weeny bit of information in a TV interview late last night.

Apparently
Aishwarya and hubby Abhishek, after being married for four years are now ready
to have a bunch of kids.

"Of course, babies, motherhood obviously" she said, "God willing it is an
absolute gift. God bless when it is meant to be and of course we are looking
forward to it and we will definitely cherish the experience."

Ash also talked about balancing marriage and work and how hectic her life
has become. "I got married bang in the middle of a film," she said, "Five
years ago you would asked me this question I would have never imagined this
would have happened. I would have said I would wrap-up my work, take a couple
of months off, pamper myself and then gotten married. But there I go bang in
the middle of a historical piece."

Ash is now officially the highest paid Bollywood actress as she appears in
Rajnikanth's upcming sci-fi romantic flick 'Robot'. She says that she has
always been a fan of Rajni and that shooting for 'Robot' was extremely
exciting "Firstly because we've all grown up watching Rajinikanth films and
all those moves – it's been exciting, everyone around me was excited about me
working with him. So that got infectious. The first time he made a subtle move
– the kind that we see on television or in spoofs – I almost let out a chuckle
and thought, 'Oh my God! I have seen this moment right here. I just saw a
Rajini moment!' I was beeming throughout."

Although unlike the current trend, Ash has no interest in IPL. "We have not
thought or discussed it at all" she asserted.

Sexy Aishwarya Rai in Bikini

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