Aishwarya is a 2006 Kannada movie starring Upendra, Daisy Bopanna and introducing Deepika Padukone. The movie was directed by Indrajit Lankesh. The film featured Upendra as a rich advertisement executive and changed his mass image into a classy one. The film was a commercial success and was among the top 5 hit films of 2006. The comedy sequences involving Daisy Bopanna was borrowed from the Tamil movie  Ghajini and the main plot from the Telugu blockbuster Manmadhudu starring Nagarjuna and Sonali Bendre.