In 2009, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government.
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She strongly believes that every baby should be born free from HIV and told PTI, "I promise that with UNAIDS I will do my utmost to make this happen." Aishwarya's father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, has served as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
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While Iruvar was a critical and commercial success, Aishwarya's first Bollywood movie was most emphatically not. She starred opposite Southern superstar Mohanlal in the Tamil language film, and one of the two characters she played in the film was said to be a fictionalised version of actress-politician J Jayalalithaa. She continued to model for the next three years and made her first film appearance in 1997's Iruvar, directed by Mani Ratnam. Aishwarya took it with a smile, and won the Miss World crown later that year. In a shock defeat, the crown went to the unknown Sushmita Sen who went on to become India's first Miss Universe. When she entered the Miss India pageant in 1994, she was the clear favourite to win and, indeed, nobody expected her not to. Eventually dropping out of her architecture course, Aishwarya quickly became the model every designer wanted to book and every brand wanted as their face.