Film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai best-looking Indians: poll
NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (AFP) -
Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and film actor Shah Rukh Khan were declared the best looking Indians of the century in a poll published by the Times of India daily Monday.
The survey, based on 140,000 votes polled on the Internet over 45 days for a special Valentine’s Day feature, saw film stars and models voted the most beautiful Indians, apart from the sole choice of a former Indian queen.
Gayatri Devi, the dowager queen of the former Indian principality of Jaipur who counted European royalty, the Kennedys and international socialites among her closest friends, was declared the fourth most beautiful Indian woman of the century.
Devi had been named among the world’s 10 most beautiful women in her prime and photographed by celebrity photographers such as Cecil Beaton and Lord Snowdon.
Rai, who entered films after winning the Miss World title in 1994, was followed by actress Madhuri Dixit, late film star Madhubala (eds: one name), Gayatri Devi and film star Rekha (eds: one name).
Among the men, Shah Rukh Khan, a New Delhi-born actor who became the Bombay film industry’s top hero, topped the list of the most handsome men, with the Times dubbing him “fortune’s child.”
He was followed by fellow actors Salman Khan, Vinod Khanna and Kabir Bedi, who created an international following by appearing in an Italian television series called “Sandokan” before embarking on a career in Hollywood.
The list of the dream boys included evergreen actor Dev Anand, who still plays leading roles despite being a septuagenarian and matinee idol Amitabh Bachchan, who was described as a “one-man industry” by French director Francois Truffaut.
Among the women, Zeenat Aman, who pioneered the western look in Indian films in the 1960s by wearing miniskirts and bikinis, was chosen as the sixth most beautiful woman followed by top actresses Dimple Kapadia and Sonali Bendre.
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