Aishwarya

<p>Abhishek Hegde ( ) had first fallen in love with a young lady Anjali ( ) who was a model. In the movie’s flashback, as a struggling model, Anjali finds herself in a fortunate position where she is mistaken to be Abhishek’s girlfriend and gets many new modelling offers. Abhishek tries to confront her on seeing the news about his affair with her, but falls in love with her instead. Anjali dies in an accident after the two declare their love and are hugging when Abhishek’s car hits a lorry. As Anjali’s family were not in favour of her decision of marrying Abhishek, he is informed that Anjali has married the person she has been engaged to. They did not care to visit him or tell him that Anjali has actually died, even when he was in the hospital recovering from injuries after the accident. Abhishek’s grandfather had faked Anjali’s wedding card, only to keep him away from further mental trauma. This angers Abhishek and he starts to hate women with the generalisation that all women are like Anjali. After many years, Aishwarya Pai ( ) joins the company he works in as an assistant manager, which is owned by his paternal uncle. After a few days in the office, she gets Abhishek fired and she takes up the position of manager. Abhishek, now not knowing what to do talks to his aunt, but is interrupted by his uncle, who is mean to him. Finally, he takes up the job of assistant manager as that is the only vacancy available. Within a few days they are assigned a task in . The two travel to Europe on business for ten days and learn from each other. Aishwarya transforms Abhishek by her assertive and fun-loving nature. They fall in love with each other but don’t express it. Abhishek finds out that Aishwarya is getting engaged as decided by her family to a very conservative family from Mandya. Aishwarya is aware of Abhishek’s feelings for her. Both of them finally speak out their love. Now, Abhishek, to save his love, drives to reach Aishwarya. At that moment, Aishwarya is on a boat travelling to her wedding venue. Abhishek reaches there and shouts out for Aishwarya, and she responds by jumping into the river. They both unite and share their moment of joy by telling how much they love each other. The movie ends on a happy note and they are married. The took place on 23 July 2006. The soundtrack was scored by . opened both in single screens and multiplexes as well. The film broke several opening box office records by generating a net share of 1.5 crore and a total gross of 20 million during its first week, out of which more than 10 million came from BKT ( , , ) alone, once again proving ‘s strong foothold in the BKT region after his earlier record breaking opener which had also collected 10 million net from the BKT region in its first week. went on to complete 50 days at 30 centers across and 75 days in , and was a commercial success, although it could not reach expectations. grossed a total of 50 million in its entire run of 100 days and was among the top 5 hit films of 2006. of gave the film a rating of three out of five stars and opined that “Krishnakumar’s lighting, choice of locations, sharp editing and the peppy music make a very pleasing watch”. A critic from wrote that “This is a film you should not miss”. A critic from wrote that “In a nutshell, ‘Aishwarya’ is a film for the entire family and a good film from the writing, performance and execution stand point”.</p>