Priyanka Chopra has opened up about the many phases in her career, starting from being a pageant winner to becoming a global star who has conquered both Bollywood and Hollywood. Priyanka made her debut
in 2002 in Thamizhan. In 2003, she was seen in both The Hero: Love Story of a Spy and Andaaz. She told Vogue Arabia, “I was thrown into the ground running.”
Priyanka Chopra said, “I’m the kind of person that if I have a challenge, I will choose to survive and thrive. I have always been competitive, even with myself. Either in the pageant world or cinema, I wasn’t related to anyone, so there was no one who was going to help me out in this business. I had to learn really fast.”
She admitted that she was” a dreadful dancer when I first started”. Priyanka said, “I was not able to act and nail the choreography at the same time, plus coordinate with my co-star. It was just too many things for my 19- or 20-year-old brain!”
She recalled, “I was filming with Raju Khan in South Africa and missing my marks. He got so upset with me that he threw the mic down, saying, ‘You might come from a pageant, but learn how to dance before you become an actress. ’ He just walked away, and I was so embarrassed… We are great friends now.”
Priyanka quickly adapted, honed her skills and became one of the most bankable actresses in Bollywood. However, she surprised her fans when she made a switch to Hollywood and even chose to stay in Los Angeles. After achieving massive success in India, did Priyanka expect to be treated like a superstar in Hollywood?
She said, “Just because you know you have a certain amount of fame in one country doesn’t mean you should be entitled and expect to be treated a certain way in another.” “An audience has to be earned wherever you go in the world. And that’s true for any artist in any medium. I think you really have to work in order to command that kind of respect or love from the people who watch your movies. You can’t just demand it,” the actress concluded.
