When Aishwarya Rai Bachchan quit a film after knowing that the producer has beaten his girlfriend Flora Saini, netizens called her a queen: ”I refuse to work with a woman beater’

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has often proved her grace, elegance and kind heart, which is even beyond her beauty. One such instance was when the actress left a film when she got to know that the producer had beaten his girlfriend. This was producer Gaurang Doshi‘s film, who had made ‘Aakhein’. Flora Saini had come out and shared a photo in which her boyfriend Gaurang had beaten her.
Flora had shared a picture and said, “That’s me…Valentine’s Day 2007, I was beaten up by a known producer, ‘Gaurang Doshi’, who I loved and was dating then…this was the last of the one-year abuse I took… I came out with a fractured jaw and a scarred soul for life…I realised that my talking about it at that time was just against me because he was the powerful one. Nobody wanted to believe some girl who was relatively new in the industry. It was his word against mine, and of course, his word mattered.”
However, after she opened up on it, she stopped getting work from anyone. In an interview with Bollywood Life, Flora had expressed gratitude to Aishwarya for supporting her. She said, “That time when I spoke, I felt I made a huge mistake. Nobody was giving me work. I’m the only breadwinner of my family, and it has become very difficult. No support! The only person to support me (then) was Aishwarya Rai, and I thank her from the bottom of my heart.”
She further added, “She had signed a film with Gaurang, and she walked out of it. In an interview, she said, ‘I refuse to work with a woman beater.’ When the world was against me, there was one woman who supported me. Who leaves work? When she did that for me, some hope was restored in me. It’s too little a thing for her, probably; she won’t even remember. I love her so much for that.”
As this incident has resurfaced and gone viral on Reddit, here’s how users have reacted to it. A person said, “As a victim of DV herself, couldn’t expect anything less from Aish… Queen!!” Another user said, “A daily reminder of how many dickheads there are in the industry!”