Here comes a very interesting story of a girl from Bareilly. She grew up as a girl with low self-esteem but emerged breaking all the stereotypes into a global icon representing our country. Yes, we are talking about our sexy desi girl ‘Priyanka Chopra’. From a small town girl to the hottest women of 2016, her journey seems to be a fairytale.
Start of the journey
Our desi girl was born on 18th July 1982 in Jamshedpur, Bihar to Ashok and Madhu Chopra who served Indian army as physicians. She has a little brother Siddhartha Chopra who is 7 years younger. The family relocated to many places like Ambala, Ladakh, Lucknow Bareilly, and Pune due to her father’s profession.
She attended La Martiniere Girls School in Lucknow and St.Maria Goretti College in Bareilly. At the age of 13, she came to stay with her aunt in the USA where she attended schools in Newton, Massachusetts and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During her stay in the USA, she participated in several theatre productions and learned Kathak and choral singing.
Priyanka & Racism Issue
Very few people are aware that the actress even faced racism issues and confessed being bullied for being an Indian. After three years Priyanka Chopra came back and completed her high school education at the Army public school Bareilly.
Miss World 2000 – It All Started From The School Level
She won “May Queen” a beauty pageant at her school. It encouraged her mother to enter her into Miss India 2000. And the conviction of Madhu Chopra was right. Her daughter ended becoming the First Runner Up for the Femina Miss India Contest and later on went on to win the Miss World Pageant in the year 2000.
The Miss World and Miss India title brought her a lot of recognition which opened doors of Bollywood industry for her.
Priyanka Chopra – The Star Has Arrived
Priyanka Chopra’s screen debut was not a Bollywood film but a Tamil movie Thamizhan opposite actor Vijay in the year 2002. But Chopra’s role was very limited from the actor’s viewpoint. In 2003 she made her debut in Bollywood as the second female lead opposite Sunny Deol in Anil Sharma’s “The Hero: Love Story of a Spy.” It was one of the highest grossing films of that year.
PC’s Award-Winning Streak Begins
Later that year, Chopra appeared in Andaaz along with Akshay Kumar and Lara Dutta, where she played a role of a vivacious young girl who falls in love with Akshay Kumar’s character.
Andaaz earned her Filmfare for best female debut award along with Lara Dutta. She got noticed for the glamour she brought to the role and a new star was born.
Career Lows And Highs
In 2004 Chopra had three releases PLAN, KISMAT, and ASAMBHAV which were box-office disasters. But she bounced back to stardom with Mujhse Shadi Karoge a David Dhawan film starring Salman Khan, and Akshay Kumar. It became the 3rd highest earning flick of that year.
In late 2004 came the turning point in her career The Abbas Mastan’s thriller Aitraaz where she played a negative role.This film has Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in lead roles. But Priyanka Chopra managed to still the thunder from these two stars and even went on to win the Filmfare for the best female actor in negative role.
Priyanka’s Success Streak Began
After then, there was no looking back…Krish, Don, Sath Khoon Maaf, Fashion and the list goes on…
Priyanka Chopra has experimented with many characters in her films. Once she mentioned that the only reason to take up Burfi was that the director Anurag Basu thought she couldn’t do such roles. Piggy Chops accepted the challenge and nailed the look and did justice to her role.
One of her recent blockbuster movies includes ‘Bajirao Mastani’ for which the actress learned Marathi. According to Priyanka Chopra it was a very challenging role as she was playing the role of Kashibai, the wife of the legendary Bajirao Peshwa.’
Piggy Chops Goes Behind The Mike
Priyanka added another feather in her cap by showing her vocal talents in single albums ‘in my city’,’ Exotic’-along with rapper Pitbull, and ‘I can’t make you love me’. She has exhibited an amazing talent in this department and has enthralled the global audience with her husky tone quality.
Desi Girl Turns Videsi
Pc’s role as Alex Parrish in ABC’s Quantico has taken the USA by storm. She played a role of FBI Trainee in the series and also made her appearance in some of the most popular shows “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Good Morning America.”
The stunning actress has made her debut in Hollywood as a sexy villain in ‘Baywatch’. The Rock introduced her as one woman in the world who can handle such pressures. Now she is very busy with her shooting schedules for Quantico season 2.We just love the way she juggles her life as an actor and producer.
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Laurels & Accolades
Apart from winning Filmfare Awards, she has many other accolades to her credit. Priyanka Chopra was included in Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people. She was also named World’s Sexiest Women and Hottest Women twice my Maxim India.
And she was the receiver of Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by the Republic of India recently.
She was invited to the White House for the Annual White House correspondent’s dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and First lady Michelle Obama themselves.
The Philanthropist In Priyanka Chopra
- She founded “The Priyanka Chopra’s Foundation for Health and Education” which supports the underprivileged children across India to gain good health and education.
- She also donated 5 million to Nanavati hospital to build a cancer ward on the name of her late father Shri. Ashok Chopra.
- She often speaks out about women issues like female infanticide, education for a girl child and is a strong believer of feminism. She is appointed as UNICEF goodwill ambassador for Child Rights.
- She also launched the “Save Girl Child “campaign, which aims to change the Indian attitude towards the girl child.
- She herself adopted 7 villages and is paying for its electricity on regular basis.
- She also adopted a tigress and lioness in 2011 and 2012 by paying for both animals up keeping at Bisra Biological Park.
- Chopra pledged to donate her organ after death as an initiative to promote organ donation in 2012
We proudly salute the lovely human being in Priyanka Chopra. She has earned each and every laurel on her own. We have loved your extraordinary journey to stardom…keep inspiring us…and wish you achieve many more laurels.
