Aishwarya Rai, a.k.a. "Curly", was the Indian member of the Monster Makers, the group that designed and created the artificial life forms in the 1980s that would become Digimon.

Roughly twenty years later, Curly and the other Monster Makers – sans Shibumi—were reunited by Yamaki and Hypnos, in order to learn more about Digimon, so that they could destroy them. However, when the Juggernaut system failed to destroy Vikaralamon, Yamaki was fired from his position.

(Source: Digimon Wikia)