In India, Aishwarya Rai is the highest paid actress, the star of Coke ads and the subject of an estimated 17,000 worshipful websites. In the U.S.? She’s about to find out. Rai makes her English-language debut in the new movie Bride & Prejudice, a retelling of the Jane Austen classic Pride & Prejudice in the style of India’s Bollywood musicals. A former architecture student, Rai, 31, who lives with her parents in Mumbai, took up acting after winning the 1994 Miss World title. “I thought, ‘I don’t see myself in the Olympics. This is my one chance to present India,’” she says of entering the pageant. Though not married (“It will happen when its meant to happen,” she says), Rai has been linked with fellow Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi. But forget anything too steamy onscreen – in Bollywood tradition, she’s never even kissed a leading man. Claims Rai: “You don’t really miss it.”