Aishwarya Vs. Deepika

A blog posting of a particular wise man that I know mentions a brief comparison between Deepika Padukone and Aishwarya Rai and it got me thinking. Is Deepika the new Ash? Is she prettier? Is she a better actress? Since I haven’t seen Om Shanthi Om and I have seen just one Aishwarya Rai movie (Kandukondain Kandukondain), I cannot comment on the first or third question. But since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I can comment on the second. .

In the movie, Deepika definitely looks very nice, but I think Aishwarya is just as pretty , if not prettier. They’re both very attractive women as such. But this brings me to an interesting point. In the movie stills for Om Shanthi Om and the song sequence I posted in my previous posting, Deepika does look extra-lovely. But I think a large part of this has to do with the increased standard of film-making and cinematography in Bollywood. It seems to have simply improved exponentially. And it’s easy to see how several heroines have benefited from this, including Aishwarya. Those slow-motion song sequences with carefully practiced smiles, gestures and hair-tosses are engineered with much skill. (If you don’t believe me, borrow a Hindi DVD and watch the ‘behind the scenes’ reels.). These techniques were used in another movie too, Parineeta, with great results. The heroine, Vidya Balan, looked extra-special in that film.

Here are some less-filmi pictures of all three women.

Aishwarya Rai, Vidya Balan, and Deepika Padukone