"As the most famous couple of bird lover in India, we believe you will be unique to attract attention to the threat of Lovebirds existence. We want to set the making of images titled Love Birds in Cages to increase public awareness on the issue," said Anuradha Sawhney, Chief functionary of the Pune-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, who writes a letter to the Aishwarya and abhishek.
Lovebirds are small groups of birds in the parrot family and the most widely sold with its cages in India. In fact, this is considered as an offense by Prevention of cruelty to Animals Act 1960.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is very strict on the sale of wild birds of the country. However, in the black market, suspected there are 300 kinds from 1.200 types of birds sold from India.
Abhishek Bachchan, born February 5, 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra is an Indian actor and the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. Bachchan debuted with J.P. Dutta's Refugee (2000). In 2004, the actor delivered a hit and a critically acclaimed performance, in the films Dhoom and Yuva.
His performance in the latter was praised, for which he received several awards, including his first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actor category, an award he would win for the two next years as well. Since then, Bachchan has starred in films that have been commercially and critically successful, establishing himself as one of the leading actors in the industry.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, born 1 November 1973 as Aishwarya Rai, and sometimes known simply as Aish, is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994.
Often cited by media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She came to the attention of Bollywood in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare. After a low phase in her career during 2003-2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success.
She later appeared in films like Guru (2007) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially successful and got her critical acclaim. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Indian film industry.
During her career, Rai has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali including the international productions Bride & Prejudice (2003), Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009) in English.