You can catch her right now in The Last Legion [1], but you probably won’t because it appears to be one of the worst movies of the summer.

Personally, I’m not a huge Ash fan. I think her stunningly beautiful face lacks real depth. But I do wonder if she will be able to pull it off. Will she ever move to Beverly Hills, when she can stay in India and be true royalty [2]? And what about her Bollywood husband, heir to the throne of Bachchan [3]? Can a traditional Indian man ever succumb to the success [4] of his wife?

It sounds like she has a couple of Hollywood films coming up like Pink Panther 2, with Steve Martin and the Roland Joffe [5] directed period-piece Singularity [6], where she will play opposite Brendan (Encino Man?) Fraser as an Indian spy named Taluja.

I wonder what these means for South Asian Americans in Hollywood. Does her exposure mean that the door will open for more brown girls, or will it be a step backwards for those actresses not “exotic” enough?