Apart from Aishwarya, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, a jury member at the 62nd edition of the French festival, also made an appearance in a yellow print sari and posed with Aishwarya on the red carpet. Tagore greeted the gathering with a traditional Namaste.

The other Indian stars expected to join the Bollywood brigade at the Cannes are Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Karan Johar who hopes to negotiate a global release for his Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan and Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's film Jehaad with the foreign distributors.