Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s outfit with Bhagavada Gita shloka gets stepped on by Helen Mirren at Cannes red carpet. See here

Talking about the shloka, he wrote, “Enveloping her is a Banarasi brocade cape handwoven in Varanasi, India, inscribed with a Sanskrit shloka from the Bhagavad Gita.” He then wrote the shloka in Sanskrit: “Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana, Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani.” He also translated the shloka, “You have a right to perform your actions, but not to the fruits of those actions. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.”

As Aishwarya was posing on the red carpet, she was joined by Cara Delevingne and Helen Mirre. The three of then then proceeded to pose together but since Aishwarya’s cape was trailing behind her on the carpet, Helen accidentally stepped on it.

Aishwarya Rai’s shloka cape on the red carpet at Cannes film festival. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)

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Aishwarya’s looks at this edition of the festival seem to highlight her Indian roots. Her first look, an ivory saree by Manish Malhotra, saw her wearing a thick layer of sindoor on her forehead. While Aishwarya has worn sarees on international platforms before, she hasn’t worn a saree at Cannes for many years now. Even her second outfit, the black gown with a white cape, highlighted her Indian roots with the shloka on the back.

A few days ago, Diljit Dosanjh wore a custom Prabal Gurung outfit at the Met Gala. Even his outfit had the map of Punjab and the Gurumukhi alphabets embroidered on the back of his cape, to highlight his roots.