Priyanka Chopra also known as Piggy Chops is a former Miss World, Indian actress, singer as well songwriter.She won the Miss World Pageant in 2000 which paved the way for her career in Bollywood. Currently she is one of Bollywood's highest paid actresses and one of the most popular celebrities in India.
Priyanka was born on the 18th July'1982 to the family of Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra and Dr. Madhu Chopra.She started her education at La Martinière Girls College in Lucknow as a resident student; a short stay at Maria Goretti College in Bareilly prepared her for further studies in the USA. While in Massachusetts, she participated in several theater productions and studied Western classical music, choral singing and Kathak dance.She was the only Indian in her class to have been selected at state level for the National Opus Honor Choir. By sophomore year, she was leaning towards a career in either software engineering or criminal psychology. After three years she returned to India where she won a local beauty pageant which in turn led her mother to enter her in the Femina Miss India 2000 contest. In the contest she finished second wining the Femina Miss India World title. At the Miss World pageant, she went on to win the Miss World 2000 pageant and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty—Asia & Oceania at the Millennium Dome in London on 1 December 2000. That year proved to be a year for Indian Beauty Queens as Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza were crowned Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific respectively.
Pageant & Movie Career
The beauty pageant paved the way for her career in Bollywood and Tollywood respectively. She was first seen in a Tamil movie 'Thamizhan'. She went on to make her debut in Bollywood with 'The Hero' in 2003. The movie was one of the highest grossing Bollywood films that year but received mixed reviews from critics. Later in the same year she was seen in Andaaz where she was the female lead in the movie. Her performance earned her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award (along with Dutta) and a nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.Her first three releases in the year 2004 - Plan, Kismat, and Asambhav bounced at the box office. Later that year she was casted in a David Dhawan starrer Mujhse Shaadi Karogi alongside Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar which was a commercial success. In late 2004 she starred opposite Akshay Kumar in Aitraaz. In Aitraaz, she played an ambitious woman who accuses her employee of sexual harassment. This movie was termed as the biggest learning experience of her career. Various newspapers cited it as the film that changed her career significantly. She went on to earn the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for the movie Aitraaz.In 2005 she appeared in six movies, three of them - Blackmail, Karam and Yakeen - being commercially unsuccessful. In the movie Waqt: The Race Against Time, she played the wife of Akshay Kumar whose father while hiding his illness teaches his irresponsible son some lessons before he dies. The film was a moderate success. Her next movie was Barsaat where she starred opposite Bobby Deol and Bipasha Basu. The film was a flop in India which was a success overseas. Later that year she was casted with Abhishekh Bachchan and Ritesh Deshmukh in the comedy Bluffmaster.
In 2006, she starred in Krish opposite Hritik Roshan. Chopra played a young television journalist who schemes to take advantage of an innocent young man with remarkable physical abilities, but eventually falls in love with him. The movie was a commercial success. Her next film was Dharmesh Darshan's romantic comedy Aap Ki Khatir, which starred Akshaye Khanna, Ameesha Patel and Dino Morea. The film was a failure as well as priyanka's performance also was not well received. Her final release in the year 2006 was Don with Shahrukh Khan. The actress received martial-arts training for her role in the movie, and performed her own stunts. The movie was declared a box office hit in India and overseas. In 2007, she had two roles one in Salaam-e-Ishq where she starred opposite Salman Khan and the other Big Brother. However both turned out to be complete box office failures. In 2008, Priyanka starred opposite Harman Baweja in his father's Love Story 2050. She played a double role in the movie. Her performance was poorly received. Next she was seen in the comedy God Tussi Great Ho portraying a TV anchor opposite Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. The movie seemed to be a remake of the Hollywood film Bruce Almighty. Next she starred in movies like Chamku and Drona. Drona was widely criticised for its extensive use of special effects, marked Chopra's sixth film in succession which had failed at both the box-office and critically.
This chain of flops movies ended in 2008 when Priyanka starred in Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion. The movie Fashion followed the lives and careers of several fashion models. This movie also showcased the wadrobe malfunction incident that occurred with a famous model as well as the repercussions this
had on its on the model.Chopra portrayed the ambitious supermodel Meghna Mathur, a role which she initially thought was out of her depth, but after six months' consideration she accepted the role, inspired by Bhandarkar's confidence in her.Both the film and her performance was appreciated which in turn won her several awards including the National Film Award. This proved to be the turning point of her career. This movie paved the way for many female dominated movies. In 2009, Chopra was seen in Kaminey. Even though she just had eight scenes, her role earned her awards and nominations. She subsequently appeared in the movie What's Your Raashee? which was based on a novel Kimball Ravenswood by Madhu Rye.
In 2010, she starred in the romantic comedy Pyaar Impossible!, a beautiful girl who falls in love with a nerdy boy. Later in the year she co-starred with Ranbir Kapoor's romantic comedy Anjaana Anjaani.The film was a moderate commercial success, and her performance received mixed reviews from critics. She then starred in a black comedy, 7 Khoon Maaf in the year 2011.Here she plays an Anglo Indian woman who murders her seven husbands in an unending quest for love. Her final release for the year was the movie Don 2. This movie was a major success in India as well as overseas. Don 2 was showcased at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival and at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech, in Morocco.
In 2012, her first release was the movie Agneepath. The film is a remake of his father's 1990 production of the same name. The movie upon release broke Bollywoods highest opening day earnings record.Next she co-starred with Shahid in the movie Teri Meri Kahaani. Anurag Basu's Barfi!, with Ranbir Kapoor and Ileana D'Cruz, was her final appearance of 2012.The film tells the story of three people, two of whom are physically disabled. Priyanka played Jhilmil Chatterjee, an autistic woman who falls in love with a deaf, mute man (Kapoor).An acclaimed director considered it a "very, very brave" role to accept given how demanding it is for an actor to convincingly portray a woman with autism. To prepare for the role, Chopra visited several mental institutions and spent time with autistic people. The film was a major commercial success. Priyanka's first release in 2013 was the much delayed Deewana Main Deewana, which had been filmed nearly a decade back and hence it didn't receive the reviews it deserved. She agreed to a special appearance in Shootout at Wadala in a song called "Babli Badmaash Hai".
Some of her upcoming projects are as follows, Zanjeer, which is a remake of the 1973 movie, she has confirmed that she will voice an aircraft in a Disney movie, She is all set to reprise her role in the movie Krish 3, she is also filming for the movie Gunday. One of her most awaited releases for the year is biopic of world boxing champion and Olympic medalist Mary Tom. To prepare for this role she has spent time with Mary as well has received four months of boxing training. The current controversy surrounding the biopic is that a US based makeup artist alleging being cheated by makers as he has not been paid for his time and effort.
Music Career
In 2012, Priyanka was signed by Creative Artists Agency, and entertainment agency. Priyanka's first single "In the City" debuted in September 2012. The song depicts her life of a small town girl to a celebrity in the city. The song received mixed reviews but is a commercial success in India.It sold more than 130,000 copies in its first week, topped the Hindi pop chart and was certified triple platinum in India. While in United States the song was not that successful. She won the People's Choice Award India for her Debut.
In April 2013 she filmed the music video for her single "Exotic" featuring American rapper Pitbull. The song released on 9th July and the video on 11th July. "Exotic" debuted at number sixteen on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs and number eleven on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart in the 27 July 2013 issue. To promote her song exotic Priyanka is going all out.She was at Millions of Milkshakes to meet fans and launch her own milkshake. And surprise, surprise, it’s called The Exotic Shake. Moreover, exotic has been chosen as the theme song for 2013 Guinness International Champions Cup.
Find below a collection of Priyanka Chopra Hot Photos and exclusive Exotica music video.
Priyanka was born on the 18th July'1982 to the family of Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra and Dr. Madhu Chopra.She started her education at La Martinière Girls College in Lucknow as a resident student; a short stay at Maria Goretti College in Bareilly prepared her for further studies in the USA. While in Massachusetts, she participated in several theater productions and studied Western classical music, choral singing and Kathak dance.She was the only Indian in her class to have been selected at state level for the National Opus Honor Choir. By sophomore year, she was leaning towards a career in either software engineering or criminal psychology. After three years she returned to India where she won a local beauty pageant which in turn led her mother to enter her in the Femina Miss India 2000 contest. In the contest she finished second wining the Femina Miss India World title. At the Miss World pageant, she went on to win the Miss World 2000 pageant and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty—Asia & Oceania at the Millennium Dome in London on 1 December 2000. That year proved to be a year for Indian Beauty Queens as Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza were crowned Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific respectively.
Pageant & Movie Career
The beauty pageant paved the way for her career in Bollywood and Tollywood respectively. She was first seen in a Tamil movie 'Thamizhan'. She went on to make her debut in Bollywood with 'The Hero' in 2003. The movie was one of the highest grossing Bollywood films that year but received mixed reviews from critics. Later in the same year she was seen in Andaaz where she was the female lead in the movie. Her performance earned her the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award (along with Dutta) and a nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.Her first three releases in the year 2004 - Plan, Kismat, and Asambhav bounced at the box office. Later that year she was casted in a David Dhawan starrer Mujhse Shaadi Karogi alongside Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar which was a commercial success. In late 2004 she starred opposite Akshay Kumar in Aitraaz. In Aitraaz, she played an ambitious woman who accuses her employee of sexual harassment. This movie was termed as the biggest learning experience of her career. Various newspapers cited it as the film that changed her career significantly. She went on to earn the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for the movie Aitraaz.In 2005 she appeared in six movies, three of them - Blackmail, Karam and Yakeen - being commercially unsuccessful. In the movie Waqt: The Race Against Time, she played the wife of Akshay Kumar whose father while hiding his illness teaches his irresponsible son some lessons before he dies. The film was a moderate success. Her next movie was Barsaat where she starred opposite Bobby Deol and Bipasha Basu. The film was a flop in India which was a success overseas. Later that year she was casted with Abhishekh Bachchan and Ritesh Deshmukh in the comedy Bluffmaster.
In 2006, she starred in Krish opposite Hritik Roshan. Chopra played a young television journalist who schemes to take advantage of an innocent young man with remarkable physical abilities, but eventually falls in love with him. The movie was a commercial success. Her next film was Dharmesh Darshan's romantic comedy Aap Ki Khatir, which starred Akshaye Khanna, Ameesha Patel and Dino Morea. The film was a failure as well as priyanka's performance also was not well received. Her final release in the year 2006 was Don with Shahrukh Khan. The actress received martial-arts training for her role in the movie, and performed her own stunts. The movie was declared a box office hit in India and overseas. In 2007, she had two roles one in Salaam-e-Ishq where she starred opposite Salman Khan and the other Big Brother. However both turned out to be complete box office failures. In 2008, Priyanka starred opposite Harman Baweja in his father's Love Story 2050. She played a double role in the movie. Her performance was poorly received. Next she was seen in the comedy God Tussi Great Ho portraying a TV anchor opposite Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. The movie seemed to be a remake of the Hollywood film Bruce Almighty. Next she starred in movies like Chamku and Drona. Drona was widely criticised for its extensive use of special effects, marked Chopra's sixth film in succession which had failed at both the box-office and critically.
This chain of flops movies ended in 2008 when Priyanka starred in Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion. The movie Fashion followed the lives and careers of several fashion models. This movie also showcased the wadrobe malfunction incident that occurred with a famous model as well as the repercussions this
had on its on the model.Chopra portrayed the ambitious supermodel Meghna Mathur, a role which she initially thought was out of her depth, but after six months' consideration she accepted the role, inspired by Bhandarkar's confidence in her.Both the film and her performance was appreciated which in turn won her several awards including the National Film Award. This proved to be the turning point of her career. This movie paved the way for many female dominated movies. In 2009, Chopra was seen in Kaminey. Even though she just had eight scenes, her role earned her awards and nominations. She subsequently appeared in the movie What's Your Raashee? which was based on a novel Kimball Ravenswood by Madhu Rye.
In 2010, she starred in the romantic comedy Pyaar Impossible!, a beautiful girl who falls in love with a nerdy boy. Later in the year she co-starred with Ranbir Kapoor's romantic comedy Anjaana Anjaani.The film was a moderate commercial success, and her performance received mixed reviews from critics. She then starred in a black comedy, 7 Khoon Maaf in the year 2011.Here she plays an Anglo Indian woman who murders her seven husbands in an unending quest for love. Her final release for the year was the movie Don 2. This movie was a major success in India as well as overseas. Don 2 was showcased at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival and at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech, in Morocco.
In 2012, her first release was the movie Agneepath. The film is a remake of his father's 1990 production of the same name. The movie upon release broke Bollywoods highest opening day earnings record.Next she co-starred with Shahid in the movie Teri Meri Kahaani. Anurag Basu's Barfi!, with Ranbir Kapoor and Ileana D'Cruz, was her final appearance of 2012.The film tells the story of three people, two of whom are physically disabled. Priyanka played Jhilmil Chatterjee, an autistic woman who falls in love with a deaf, mute man (Kapoor).An acclaimed director considered it a "very, very brave" role to accept given how demanding it is for an actor to convincingly portray a woman with autism. To prepare for the role, Chopra visited several mental institutions and spent time with autistic people. The film was a major commercial success. Priyanka's first release in 2013 was the much delayed Deewana Main Deewana, which had been filmed nearly a decade back and hence it didn't receive the reviews it deserved. She agreed to a special appearance in Shootout at Wadala in a song called "Babli Badmaash Hai".
Some of her upcoming projects are as follows, Zanjeer, which is a remake of the 1973 movie, she has confirmed that she will voice an aircraft in a Disney movie, She is all set to reprise her role in the movie Krish 3, she is also filming for the movie Gunday. One of her most awaited releases for the year is biopic of world boxing champion and Olympic medalist Mary Tom. To prepare for this role she has spent time with Mary as well has received four months of boxing training. The current controversy surrounding the biopic is that a US based makeup artist alleging being cheated by makers as he has not been paid for his time and effort.
Music Career
In 2012, Priyanka was signed by Creative Artists Agency, and entertainment agency. Priyanka's first single "In the City" debuted in September 2012. The song depicts her life of a small town girl to a celebrity in the city. The song received mixed reviews but is a commercial success in India.It sold more than 130,000 copies in its first week, topped the Hindi pop chart and was certified triple platinum in India. While in United States the song was not that successful. She won the People's Choice Award India for her Debut.
In April 2013 she filmed the music video for her single "Exotic" featuring American rapper Pitbull. The song released on 9th July and the video on 11th July. "Exotic" debuted at number sixteen on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs and number eleven on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart in the 27 July 2013 issue. To promote her song exotic Priyanka is going all out.She was at Millions of Milkshakes to meet fans and launch her own milkshake. And surprise, surprise, it’s called The Exotic Shake. Moreover, exotic has been chosen as the theme song for 2013 Guinness International Champions Cup.
Find below a collection of Priyanka Chopra Hot Photos and exclusive Exotica music video.
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Priyanka Chopra Exotic music video - Exotic ft. Pitbull
