Aishwarya Rai spoke about her film Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999), and said both her co-star Akshaye Khanna and she ‘had a lot at stake’. Aishwarya, who was crowned Miss World in 1994, said that ‘a section of the industry and the media had written her off’. Aishwarya had also opened up about what was said about her in the