Global star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan captivated the audience with her stylish appearance and candid discussion about her career at the Red Sea Film Festival 2025.
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The actress, known for her roles in films like โDevdasโ, was dressed in an elegant black gown that she paired with an eye-catching emerald-green pendant. She styled her hair in soft, side-parted curlsโa refreshing departure from her signature straight, middle-parted style. She shared the pictures from her appearance on Instagram quickly setting the social media abuzz with her beauty and splendour.
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During a discussion at the film festival, the acclaimed actress reflected on the choices she has made over her long and successful career in the entertainment industry, revealing that “insecurity has never been the driving force” behind her decisions.
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The former Miss World, who started her film career with Mani Ratnam’s โIruvarโ, emphasised that her approach to projects has always been guided by clarity and personal conviction, rather than a fear of judgment or competition.
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“I don’t get insecure. That’s a real aspect of who I am,” Aishwarya said.
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“Insecurity has never been the driving force. A lot of voices around can try and get into your head and sometimes propel choices. That is something that has never been me. There’s clarity in all my career choices,” she added.
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Aishwaryaย said her approach also extends to social media, where she maintains a minimal and deliberate presence. “So evidently, to those who have visited my one and only social media engagement platform, it’s almost been quite shy, like basic… I’m quite a quiet rebel there. And I was like, no, I’m certainly not going to follow the expected… I kind of wanted to set an example, but make a statement of telling people to liberate yourself from fooling yourself into believing that this is what you need to feel validated.โ
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She also spoke about how winning Miss World at 21 in 1994 shaped her global perspective.
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“Being a part of the Miss World contest was incidental. I didn’t perceive it as a beauty pageant or a title. I interestingly looked upon it as an opportunity to possibly represent the Indian woman internationally. It amazed me how less informed a large part of the world was about Indian people, or the Indian woman at the time and where we were as a people,” she said.
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“Some of the questions still seem so archaic, even to the extent of inquiries about the education system, about the geography of the country, about whether it was still a world with tigers and snake charmers,” she said during the conversation.