Bollywood icon Aishwarya Rai is a household name in many countries. Now the actress, who married Abhishek Bachchan last month, is getting used to a new moniker.
“This is the first travel where people start calling you, ‘Hello Mrs Bachchan, good evening,” Rai told Associated Press television on Wednesday.
“I’ve maybe done a double take at times, but pleasantly so, it makes us smile, so it’s been good,” she added.
Rai, 33, interrupted her honeymoon for a flying visit to the Cannes Film Festival. She is in the French Riviera resort as part of the team of models for a cosmetic company, who descend on the event every year.
Rai was in the audience, and on the red carpet, for Wednesday’s opening-night festival screening of Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, but said she hoped to return to her vacation by the weekend.
Once she’s back, Rai said she will continue work on her latest film Jodha-Akbar.