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Do we like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan?

Our score: 6 out of 10. No harmful words or acts turned up and there is real charity work, but several key pages wouldn't open and the Panama Papers questioning has no reported outcome.

First, a gap. The pages that would tell her early story (the Miss World win, the film debut) wouldn't open for us, so we're leaving the backstory to your own search rather than guessing. What we can say from the reporting is that she is still a headline name in Indian entertainment, and in May 2026 she was back at Cannes as a L'Oréal Paris ambassador.

The Cannes fuss was mostly about how others treated her. Fans objected when she didn't appear in the brand's promotional video, and she copped age and body-shaming comments online over her red-carpet looks. Reports say Madhuri Dixit and Kangana Ranaut both came out publicly in her defence. None of that reflects on her conduct, it's just the pile-on she had to wear.

The most recent legal item is one she started herself. In September 2025 the Delhi High Court granted an interim order in her favour, barring websites and unnamed parties from using her name, image or likeness for commercial purposes without consent. It also covered AI-generated and deepfake material, and directed Google to remove listed links within 72 hours. She was the applicant, not the defendant.

There are two old marks. In 2015 a Kalyan Jewellers ad showing a dark-skinned child holding an umbrella over her drew sharp criticism and was withdrawn, and her representative said she had no say in the creative. In December 2021 she was questioned for about six hours by India's Enforcement Directorate over the Panama Papers leak, under foreign exchange rules. Her media adviser called the reports untrue, and we found no reported outcome or charge.

The good stuff is real. UNAIDS appointed her an International Goodwill Ambassador in 2012, with a focus on stopping new HIV infections in children and widening access to treatment. Other searches pointed to a long run as a Smile Train goodwill ambassador and an eye-donation advocate, but we couldn't read those pages, so we're not leaning on them.

So where does that leave us? She passes both tests on what we could read: no harmful words, no sign of bad company, and a charity record that goes back more than a decade. The score sits at a 6 rather than higher because the record is thin and several pages were out of reach. If you want a firmer number, the endorsements and her views on LGBTQ+ issues are the gaps to fill.