As is the norm every year, Aishwarya Rai stunned as she walked the red carpet for the first time at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. She sat down for an interview ahead of her red carpet appearance, during which she spoke about her last release ‘Ponniyin Selvan: II,’ her characters in the film, and the ‘silent question’ everyone keeps asking about her career.
In her interview, Aish was asked, “Why aren’t we, as in the Hindi cinema, offering you roles with such complexities, such depth? Look at what you brought out and what you did with it.” She responded, “Well that’s a silent question I think everybody normally ends up asking. We are all creative people, when something turns out so good and feels so right, creatively for the people working on it, as well as for the audience, that’s the response it evokes. I think one of the most beautiful and most rewarding moments is when questions like this arise for the actors, the leading ladies…”
She added, “There’s a reason we salute Mani Ratnam and directors like him, who do create work like this, and that’s why it is such a pleasure for us as artists to work with them, and to come away with results like this and movies like this, where we are proud of the work we have done. We feel immensely satisfied and Ponniyin Selvan has definitely been immensely satisfying for all of us…”
‘PS2’ is the second instalment of the period drama based on Kalki Krishnamurthy’s popular historical novel Ponniyin Selvan. The cast includes Vikram, Trisha, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Sobhita Dhulipala and Aishwarya Lekshmi. The movie was released in theatres on April 28.