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Ashwarya Rai joined film industry in the year 1997. Since then she has worked in many films, but she never signed more than four films each year although she gets on an average two offers every day. Here is the list of her films in chronological order:
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1997 |
Iruvar |
Mohanlal, Prakash Raj, Tabu |
Mani Ratnam |
Tamil |
Pushpa/Kalpana |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1997 |
Aur Pyar Ho Gaya |
Bobby Deol |
Rahul Rawail |
Hindi |
Ashi Kapoor |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1999 |
Aa Ab Laut Chalen |
Akshaye, Khanna, Rajesh Khanna |
Rishi Kapoor |
Hindi |
Pooja |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1998 |
Jeans |
Prashanth, Nassar |
S. Shankar |
Tamil |
Madhumitha/
Vaishnavi |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1999 |
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam |
Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan |
Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
Hindi |
Nandini |
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This film gave Ashwarya a perfect launch pad for her, the story was good, well directed and supported by her co-actors, Ashwarya performed effortlessly in the film, which ultimately proved a Blockbuster and a hit in the box office.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1999 |
Ravoyi Chandamama |
Akkineni, Nagarjuna, Jagapati Babu |
Jayant Paranji |
Telegu |
Small Role |
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- Her appearance in the film was for a song, which she did perfectly.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 1999 |
Taal |
Anil Kapoor, Akshaye, Khanna |
Subhash Ghai |
Hindi |
Mansi |
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This was a powerful film which narrates the story lines beautifully, Ashwarya portrays her role justifiably, and shows her magnificent dancing talent also. That made the film a hit with the box office and silenced the Ashwarya critics for a while.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Sanam Tere Hain Hum |
Akkineni, Nagarjuna, Jagapati Babu |
Jayant Paranji |
Hindi |
Special Appearance |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Mela |
Amir Khan, Twinkle Khanna |
Dharmesh Darshan |
Hindi |
Champakali |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Kandukondain Kandukondain |
Mammooty, Ajith, Tabu |
Rajiv Menon
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Tamil |
Meenakshi Bala |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Josh |
Shahrukh Khan |
Mansoor Khan |
Hindi |
Shirley |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai |
Anil Kapoor, Sonali Bendre |
Satish Kaushik |
Hindi |
Preeti Virat |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke |
Abhishek Bachchan, Amrish Puri |
Raj Kanwar |
Hindi |
Sahiba Gareval |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2000 |
Mohabbatein |
Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan |
Aditya Chopra |
Hindi |
Megha |
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- The story of the film revolves around memories of Megha (Ashwarya) who is dead, her role in the film is not lengthy one, but whenever she appeared she tried to cast her spell and succeeded too.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2001 |
Albela |
Govinda, Namrata Shirodkar |
Deepak Sareen |
Hindi |
Sonia |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2002 |
Devdas |
Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit |
Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
Hindi |
Parvati |
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2002 |
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam |
Salman Khan, Shahrukh khan, Madhuri Dixit |
K.S. Adiyaman |
Hindi |
Special Appearance |
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- Ashwarya was a guest artist in the movie, so nothing much to be expected of her.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2002 |
Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin |
Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan |
David Dhawan |
Hindi |
Komal Rastogi |
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- She fits to her role naturally and tries to play her character with sensibility, film is a rib tickling comedy by none other than David Dhawan.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2002 |
23rd March 1931: Shaheed |
Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol |
Guddu Dhanoa |
Hindi |
Special Appearance |
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- In this film Ashwarya appeared for a song.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2002 |
Shakti: The Power |
Nana Patekar, Karishma Kapoor |
Krishna Vamshi |
Hindi |
Dream Girl |
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- In the film she appeared for a song and dance number with Shahrukh Khan.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2003 |
Dil Ka Rishta |
Rakhee, Arjunr Ramphal |
Naresh Malhotra |
Hindi |
Tia Sharma |
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- This was altogether a family production for Ashwarya; mother Vrinda writing the script and the screenplay and brother Aditya produced it. This film provides ample screen time to her but she messed it up paying undue attention to her costumes and looks. This film also proves that Ashwarya is a director’s actress only.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2003 |
Chokher Bali |
Prasenjit, Raima Sen |
Rituparno Ghosh |
Bengali |
Binodini |
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- This was a classic penned down by Rabindranath Tagore set at a period just before the partition of Bengal and narrates the complex changes taking place in the society at the time, Ashwarya Binodini a widow and played it really well, it is a character to be remembered for a long time.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2003 |
Kuch Naa Kaho |
Abhishek Bavhchan, Shahrukh Khan |
Rohan Sippy |
Hindi |
Namrata Srivastav |
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- Here Ashwarya steals the show by showing a range of emotions.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Khakee |
Amitabh Bavhchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan |
Rajkumar Santoshi |
Hindi |
Mahalaxmi |
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- It is a totally male dominated film where Ashwarya makes her presence felt.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Khakee |
Amitabh Bavhchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan |
Rajkumar Santoshi |
Hindi |
Mahalaxmi |
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- It is a totally male dominated film where Ashwarya makes her presence felt.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Kyun…! Ho Gaya Na |
Amitabh Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi |
Sameer Karnik |
Hindi |
Diya Malhotra |
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- The film failed to make impact on the box office but provided ample room to Ashwarya to show her talents.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Raincoat |
Ajay Devgan, Annu Kapoor |
Rituparno Ghosh |
Hindi |
Neerja ‘Neeru’ |
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- Besides looking beautiful, she tried to her talents too.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Bride and Prejudice |
Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar |
Gurinder Chadha |
English |
Lalita Bakshi |
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- This film was a chartbuster in U.K. and gave ample opportunities to Ashwarya to prove her mettle.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2004 |
Bride and Prejudice |
Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar |
Gurinder Chadha |
English |
Lalita Bakshi |
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- This film was a chartbuster in U.K. and gave ample opportunities to Ashwarya to prove her mettle.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2005 |
Shabd |
Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan |
Leena Yadav |
Hindi |
Antara Vashisth/ Tammana |
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- This is the debut film of the director who had written the script also, got confused in portray of many characters and Antara is one of them. Ashwarya failed here due the confusing plot of the film.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2005 |
Bunty Aur Babli |
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, |
Shaad Ali |
Hindi |
Special (Song) |
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- As the film got super hit so the song sequence done by Ashwarya.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2005 |
Mistress of Spices |
Dylan McDermott |
Paul Mayeda Berges |
English |
Tilo |
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- This was another international film exposure for Ashwarya, but according to her critics she failed miserably in this film.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2006 |
Provoked: A True Story |
Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews |
Jag Mundhra |
English |
Kiranjit Ahluwalia |
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- Another International exposure for Ashwarya and here she gives her soul to the character she played.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2006 |
Umrao Jaan |
Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan |
J.P.Dutta |
Hindi |
Umrao Jaan |
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- This film created much hype in the media but failed to satisfy the critics who mercilessly rejected the performance of Ashwarya as comparing to the role Rekha portrayed before.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2006 |
Saamna |
Ajay Devgan, Nana Patekar |
Rajkumar Santoshi |
Hindi |
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- It is completed yet to be released in India.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2006 |
Dhoom 2 |
Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan |
Sanjay Gadhvi |
Hindi |
Sunehiri |
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- This film released and started doing good business altogether, but there is nothing special has been achieved by Ashwarya by this film as it is a multi starred film her scope is very limited, also the film has created many controversies.
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| Year |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| 2007 |
Guru |
Madhavan, Abhishek Bachchan |
Mani Ratnam |
Hindi |
Sujatha |
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- This film does not have much scope for Ashwarya, but what ever exposure she got, she tried to give her best performance till date.
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Up Coming Films : |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Competed |
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Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley |
Doug Lefler |
English |
Mira |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Filming |
The Heart of India |
Amitabh Bachchan |
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English |
Mumtaz Mahal |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Filming |
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Hrithik Roshan |
Ashutosh Gowarikar |
Hindi |
Jodha Bai |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Filming |
Singularity |
Brenden Fraser |
RolandJoffé |
English |
Tulaja |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Announced |
Rebel |
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Ketan Mehta |
Hindi |
Rani Laxmibai |
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| status |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Announced |
Happy Birthday |
John Abraham |
Sriram Raghvan |
Hindi |
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Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Announced |
Maharani Gayatri |
Abhishek Bachchan |
J.P.Dutta |
Hindi |
Maharani Gayatri Devi |
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| status |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Filming |
Chaos |
Meryl Streep |
Coline Serreau |
English |
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| status |
Name of the Film |
Co-Actors |
Director |
Language |
Character Played |
| Ready for Filming |
Sarkar 2 |
| Amitabh Bachchan, |
| Abhishek Bachchan, |
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Ram Gopal Verma |
Hindi |
Neha |
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