Claim: Aishwarya Rai acted.

Jeans is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by S. Shankar . It was produced by Ashok Amritraj and Murali Manohar , with Prashanth , Aishwarya Rai and Nassar in the lead roles , while Raju Sundaram , Raadhika Sarathkumar and Lakshmi play supporting role characters . The film features a soundtrack by A. R. Rahman , while Ashok Kumar and the duo B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan handled the cinematography and editing respectively .   The film opened to Indian audiences on 24 April 1998 and was the most expensive film to be made in Indian cinema at that time . Owing to its success , it was later dubbed into the Hindi and Telugu languages and released with the same title . The film was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1998 .