Flashback : Aish On time Magazine and her interview

TIME, the world's largest news magazine, has a worldwide circulation of 6 million and an audience of 32 million readers. Time is a reading news magazine of international repute and worldwide readership. And getting on the front cover feature is very rare even for the best celebrities. Print media has been covering Aishwarya Rai for many years but few films and movie magazine match the stature of Times. And to become the luckiest of all of them Aishwarya Rai Time Magazine Cover page has made our country proud.

Alex Perry of TIME magazine caught up the former MISS world and bollywood's leading lady on the set of Bride and Prejudice, just north of London. And he started his questionnaires with Ash.

TIME: How do you choose your roles? You seem to be very pickier.

Ash: I am always a student. I want to do better and I want that directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I like to break myths and people's preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something; have always had an opinion, although they have never really rebelled. And as for being picky, in the beginning, I was working on several films together at a same time But now it has slowed down to one or two. But the thing is yes, whatever I do should be the best.

TIME: How do you feel about becoming a world stat?

Ash: I actually do not want to be a world star or big in Hollywood, but just new and interesting experiences. When I went to states and at Cannes. I had very positive experience. I really do not work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and goodwill and I like what she had to offer.

TIMES: Are you trying to move away from traditional Bollywood song and dance romances? What do you make of the "New Bollywood"? It seems to be generating a lot of interest in the west.

Ash: I am very happy with our cultural backdrop and the backdrop of our cinema and participating in a movement to project our cinema internationally. Indian cinema is slotted in to its own small category. People are breaking the stereotype and it's good that Indian cinema is being reorganized. As an artist I am happiest to put my all into an art form, as you do with song and dance Maybe the world is just becoming more aware of our culture.

TIME: Why did Bollywood stay in the same rut so long?

Ash: For a long time, cinema has been the biggest form of entertainment in India. An the larger body of India had such hard lives that when they go to the cinema, they want to be transported, to see a world of hope, colour, Positive and the innocent , beautiful fairytale.

Time: Are you aware that half a billion Indian men think you are the perfect woman?

Ash: This is not the image, I am working for. I have always just been what I am if I was really trying to live up to that perception of me, that would be too much pressure. The more fame you have, the more input and hard work there is. I am just the girl I was brought up to be.