Mumbai: A copy of the modeling bill from the early stages of Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s career is going viral on social media. This bill is dated 23 May 1992, that is, almost two years before she won the coveted Miss World title in 1994. It is seen in this bill that the actress got Rs 1,500 in return for her work for shooting a magazine.
A copy of the bill shared by a Reddit user details the nature of the contract and the work that the Guru actress undertook.
It specifies that Aishwarya, who was “aged about 18 years” at the time, “agreed to work as a model” for a firm called Krupa Kreations for a magazine catalogue shoot. The bill carries her signature at the bottom and tells that the deal was signed in Mumbai.
A Twitter user named Vimal Upadhyay shared pictures from the magazine shoot on Twitter in a series of tweets, complete with the catalogue photos and the magazine cover.
Hello, Today I am celebrating the 30th Anniversay of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue. (Collage 1) pic.twitter.com/2SvQvZbMVF
— SGBSR Maharashtra (@Vimalnupadhyaya) May 23, 2022
Hello, Today I am celebrating the 30th Anniversay of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue. (Collage 2) pic.twitter.com/ucRkCLVASj
— SGBSR Maharashtra (@Vimalnupadhyaya) May 23, 2022
One of the tweets read, “Hello, Today I am celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue (sic).”
Hello, Today I am celebrating the 30th Anniversay of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue. (Collage 3) pic.twitter.com/p6QooKyMpP
— SGBSR Maharashtra (@Vimalnupadhyaya) May 23, 2022
Hello, Today I am celebrating the 30th Anniversay of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue. (Collage 4) pic.twitter.com/WPVe0YYfoE
— SGBSR Maharashtra (@Vimalnupadhyaya) May 23, 2022
Hello, Yesterday I celebrated the 30th Anniversay of the Fashion Catalogue published by me. Aishwarya Rai, Sonali Bendre, Niki Aneja, Tejaswini Kolhapure were few of the models posed for this Catalogue. pic.twitter.com/AQBuQakv2K
— SGBSR Maharashtra (@Vimalnupadhyaya) May 24, 2022
Let us tell you that after winning the Miss World title in 1994, Aishwarya started her acting career from the year 1997, although her first film was Tamil, which was named ‘Iruvar’. Debut in Hindi film industry with ‘Gaya’. After this, the actress worked in many hit films like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Talas Mohabbatein, Devdas, Khaki, Guru. However, after marriage, Aishwarya made some distance from films.
Meanwhile, Aishwarya recently marked her 21st appearance at the ongoing 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where she is a regular fixture at the red carpet.