"most beautiful woman in the world",Rai made her acting debut with Mani Ratnam 's Tamil film Iruvar (1997), and had her first commercial success in Jeans (1998). She found success in Bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali 's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002) and eventually won two Filmfare