Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Fit for a Queen

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan poses as she arrives to attend the 2012 amfAR's Cinema Against Aids on May 24, 2012 in Antibes, southeastern France.

Design duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla set out to dress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan like the royalty she is India's celebrated designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, who are on call to dress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for her Cannes outing, took a swipe at all those who have been mean to the former Miss World's post-natal figure.

"She's enjoying her motherhood, but Indian people have been so unkind towards her," said Khosla.

The designer to Bollywood stars blamed it on aping the West.

"Why are we setting these Western standards? It's a Western import and journalists are just obsessed with size zero. There's no need to be because it was never our thing," said Khosla who claims to prefer plus-size women over waif-like models.

By Manjusha Radhakrishnan