MUMBAI: A childhood photo of actor Aishwarya Rai for a pencil ad has emerged online and fans have pointed out her uncanny resemblance with her daughter Aaradhya Bachchan. Taking to Instagram, Rarephotoclub shared a photo of a young Aishwarya posing with a pencil resting on her cheek as she smiled.

Fans compared Aaradhya Bachchan with her mother. A person said, "Oh wow. Her kid is a carbon copy of her." Another fan wrote, "Aishwarya. Aaradhya resembles her mother." "Wow. Aradhya looks just like Aishwarya," commented an Instagram user.

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Aaradhya is the daughter of Aishwarya and her husband, actor Abhishek Bachchan. The couple married in April 2007 in a private ceremony at Amitabh Bachchan's residence Prateeksha in Mumbai's Juhu. They welcomed their first child, Aaradhya on November 16, 2011.

Recently the Dasvi actor was quoted saying that Aishwarya has been teaching Aaradhya to be humble and thankful. “Her mother teaches her to be very thankful and humble about the fact that people will want to see her, appreciate that and don’t take it as a privilege.”

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Aishwarya will be seen in the upcoming film Ponniyin Selvan. Directed by Mani Ratnam, the film is scheduled to hit theatres on September 30 this year. The first part of a two-part multilingual series, PS-1, is based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's Tamil novel Ponniyin Selvan. 

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