Bollywood stars Aishwarya and Rhithik now expected Sept/Oct
By Shauna Jemmott
Guyana Chronicle
June 21, 2004
INDIAN movie stars Rhithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai along with a 37-member troupe are scheduled for a glitzy electrifying show in Guyana a few months from now.
The show, originally scheduled for August 6, was postponed to a later date because another popular star Shahrukh Khan is expected to perform in Trinidad and Tobago the same month.
One of the local promoters of the Guyana leg of the music, dance and drama production, Alvin Raghunauth, told Guyana Chronicle the two stars will definitely tour Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago this year and arrangements are being made for a similar show in Suriname also.
Studio 54, a Trinidad company, has contracted Roshan and Rai to stage shows in the Caribbean early August. They were scheduled to arrive in Guyana August 3 and depart August 7.
But Raghunauth told Chronicle that another Trinidadian promoter Mohan Yankarran signed an earlier contract with Shahrukh for the August show in Trinidad, and that caused the postponement of the other.
He explained that two big shows featuring top Indian stars by two different promoters around the same time would not be an excellent move, and Studio 54 is trying to get a date in either late September or early October for the postponed Caribbean entertainment events. The company has to contact the stars before deciding on a new date, since contracts have already been signed for the August dates, Raghunauth said.
He said the show is expected to be exciting and big. “This will be huge and they will receive a big big welcome,” Raghunauth exclaimed.
Profiles of Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai
Roshan called ‘Duggu’ was born January 6, 1974 and is a six-footer who weighs about 180 pounds. He first acted when he was just six-years-old as a dancer in J. Om Prakash’s movie ‘Aasha’ in 1980, which saw Jeetendra and Reena Roy as the stars, then in that same year again in ‘Aap Ke Deewane’ produced by his father Rakesh Roshan.
However, Roshan’s first hero role was played in ‘Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai’, also directed by the older Roshan, and also starred in Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ among many others.
India’s darling and one of the world’s most beautiful women, Aishwarya Rai was Born in a traditional south Indian family, and launched her modelling career at a very tender age.
With outstanding green-blue eyes, she was featured in many major advertisements and crowned Miss World 1994.
Aishwarya Rai has now stormed into the Bollywood movie industry and has proven her high status after receiving the screen best female debutant award for her role in ...Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya (1997) in India.
She also starred in Khakee, Kyon Ho Gaya Na, Dil Ka Rishta, Tia
Shakti: The Power Dream Girl, and appeared in Mohabbatein and many more Indian films.