Tag: Priyanka Chopra @priyankachopra

Priyanka Chopra has become a triple threat in the Bollywood industry from a model and winning Miss World to becoming one of the hottest actresses and singer. Now the “Mary Kom” actress is taking her acting international as Hollywood’s ABC Studios offered a deal for a TV show.

 Chopra has been working with the network to start a new project and now has finally confirmed a deal. The actress is set to co-star in “Quantico” as one of the leading actresses. The cast and crew recently started shooting for the ABC series, but have just wrapped up their pilot.

The “Exotic” singer made the announcement on Instagram and Twitter saying, “And it’s a wrap! #Quantico pilot shoot is over! Hope we get picked up! Loved played Alex Parrish! Thx team!”

In another tweet, Chopra announced that she is currently leaved NYC and is heading back to India.

“Bye bye NYC… Mumbai is calling… Yay! Can’t wait to be home,” tweeted Chopra.

The actress is enjoying her time on set with her fellow co-stars and even takes to Instagram to share her moments with the members on the sets of the show, which is being shot in Virginia.

“Last day of week 1! @destined985 @chanchal_dsouza @thejohannabraddy @jazmasri #EarlyMorningMusings,” Chopra captioned one photo with some of the cast and crew while showing off another picture saying, “On set shenanigans!!! #Quantico @joshsafran @thedogchuck @hunterfryellis.”

The “Exotic” singer showed off a collage of pictures of her heading over to the set early in the morning saying, “Early morning drive to set.. Mornings R so poignant. Gentle. Quiet. #Quantico.”

Previously, Chopra shared the full list of of the cast, which includes Dougray Scott, Aunjanue Ellis, Jake McLaughlin, Tate Ellington, Johanna Braddy, Graham Rogers, Yasmine Al Massri and Brian Smith.

The Bollywood actress also shared a picture on Instagram of what goes on behind the scenes and captioned the photo with scripts, “Homework homework #Rehearsals #Quantico #prepDay coffeeeeeee.”

“Quantico” is reportedly about a group of young FBI recruits, each of whom has a secret motive for joining the bureau. Chopra will play an agent named Alex whose past resurfaces soon after she arrives at the training camp.

Chopra is the first Bollywood actress to star in an ABC series and expressed that she is excited to expand her portfolio and work with stars in the Hollywood industry.

“As an actor I’m constantly challenging my creative capacity. I took a leap of faith when (ABC head of casting) Keli Lee asked me to join the ABC family, and I’m so excited to be a part of the pilot for ‘Quantico’ alongside an incredibly talented cast and production team,” said Chopra.

Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra has bagged a lead role in American TV show Quantico. Produced by ABC television, Priyanka will play an FBI agent whose past comes back to haunt her in the midst of her training at a camp. She will be starring alongside Jake McLaughlin, who is also reportedly playing an agent in the show.

Indian actress-singer Priyanka Chopra’s debut American show Quantico will feature an international starcast including Jake McLaughlin, Dougray Scott and Aunjanue Ellis.

“As an actor I’m constantly challenging my creative capacity. I took a leap of faith when (ABC head of casting) Keli Lee asked me to join the ABC family, and I’m so excited to be a part of the pilot for Quantico’alongside an incredibly talented cast and production team.” Said Priyanka Chopra

The 32-year-old former Miss World took to Instagram to reveal the cast of the upcoming ABC show, which also features Tate Ellington, Graham Rogers, Johanna Braddy and Yasmine Al Massri.

“Cast list… #Quantico #PrepDay #Pilot,” Priyanka wrote alongside a horizontal collage of photographs of the actors in the show.

It has been reported that McLaughlin, also 32, will play Priyanka’s love interest on the series. The actor has previously starred on the J J Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron’s NBCdrama Believe.

Josh Safran of Gossip Girl fame will pen the script and executive produce the ABC Studios and Mark Gordon Company drama alongside Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper. Marc Munden will direct the pilot.

The drama centres on a group of young FBI recruits, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. Priyanka will play Alex Weaver, a brilliant but haunted FBI trainee whose past boils to the surface soon after her arrival at Quantico. 

Priyanka Chopra, who excelled in her onscreen avatar as iconic boxer M.C. Mary Kom, accepted and performed a handstand with a push up – a dare thrown up at her by Hrithik Roshan. And boy, she did it wearing a pair of heels! “The only girl I cud dare this! For super @priyankachopra my #bangbangdare HANDSTAND with a push up!! Do u accept! U have 3 days,” Hrithik posted on Twitter Sunday as part of an innovative promotional strategy for his forthcoming film “Bang Bang”. For the fierce and daredevil Priyanka, carrying out the challenge seemed like a cakewalk. In a video she posted on her Facebook page, Priyanka features wearing casuals and she does exactly what Hrithik asked her to do — albeit with a twist. “Here you go Hrithik Roshan…a handstand with 3 push ups! In high heels! #bangbangdare …next time try and make it a little difficult,” she quipped.

After regaling movie aficionados with her act as Manipuri boxing champion M.C. Mary Kom in Bollywood film ‘Mary Kom’, actress Priyanka Chopra is excited about her visit to the northeastern city of Guwahati in Assam. “Heading to Guwahati…So glad to go to the North Eastern part of the country. Esp after #MaryKom. Looking forward… In more ways than one (sic),” the National Award winning actress tweeted. Filmmakers, celebrities and fans have come forward to applaud Priyanka for her power-packed act in the film. Mary Kom had a limited release in the northeast region, which is made of eight states, also including Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim.

Actress Priyanka Chopra, who will be next seen in the much-awaited biopic ‘Mary Kom’, said it is disrespectful to see it as a film made in sync with the trend of sports dramas. Priyanka will essay the life story of Olympic medal-winning boxer Mary Kom in the film, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Last year, biopic on life of national sprinter Milkha Singh, played by actor Farhan Akhtar, had won the film several accolades, while Irrfan’s stint as Paan Singh Tomar in the 2012 film of same name bagged two National awards.

The Fashion star made it clear that it was wrong to compare the film with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. “I think you can’t compare Mary Kom with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. For the first time a film has been made on life of a female athlete. It is disrespectful to say it is a trend of sports biopic film. Mary Kom is the pride of our nation,” Priyanka told reporters here at the trailer launch of the film today.

The 32-year-old actress said Mary Kom is so far the toughest film of her career. “It is the most hardest film of my career. To bring her (Mary Kom’s) personality on screen was the hardest part. To bring the part of a fighter, a homemaker, and a mother was a challenge,” Priyanka said.

Priyanka Chopra’s move from a boxing ring in Mary Kom to a business suit in Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do was not an easy one. The actress had to lose some extra baggage on the way-seven kilos of muscle built while training to play the pugilist in the biopic. The actress had trained with boxer Jharna Sanghvi over the last year to get the brawny physique of the Olympic medal winner.

But Zoya wanted Priyanka to look svelte for her turn as a suave businesswoman from a Punjabi family in her film, which is currently being shot aboard a cruise liner sailing through Europe. Priyanka had only 20 days to knock off the weight gained over the past year and worked with Jharna to achieve the goal.

When contacted, Jharna says: “It’s usually not easy and advisable to cut down six-seven kilos in just 15-20 days. But boxers can lose that much in about 20 days with the right weight training and activities like skipping, running and a controlled their diet because they are trained for it. Priyanka did just that.” This was coupled by a strict diet to shed the kilos quickly.

“Priyanka’s diet included a lot of carbohydrates then. So her weight shot up. And from the day she completed her shoot, I put her on a protein rich diet and eliminated carbohydrates. Regular exercises and run ning for at least 30 minutes helped too,” says Jharna. Priyanka is currently shooting for Dil Dhadakne Do with Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Anil Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar. The cast and crew departed for a twoand- ahalf-month schedule last month.

Priyanka Chopra seems to be all set to turn producer with her next venture. The actress has already given a nod to Madhur Bhandarkar’s Madamji to play the leading lady and is now planning to produce the same.

Piggy Chops had been toying with the idea of producing a film since a long time, but seems like the actress was waiting for just the right opportunity. And for her very first project as a producer, PeeCee has decided to collaborate with the National Award-winning director.

It was Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion which got the actress a National Award, and Priyanka is being doubly sure with her maiden venture. According to a Mumbai Mirror report, “Priyanka and Madhur had a meeting before she left to shoot the on-going schedule of the Mary Kom biopic.

She told Madhur that she was bowled over by the script and definitely wants to be a part of the project.” However at that time Priyanka Chopra was unable to give immediate dates, with her hands full of projects like Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom biopic and Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do. Seems like Madhur Bhandarkar saw Priyanka’s eagerness to produce and act in the film.

A co-operative Madhur has shifted dates, and the shooting schedule of Madamji will being only in October 2014. The story of Madamji will revolve around the life of an actressturned- politician and is reportedly inspired from real life politician – Jayalalithaa.

The makeup artiste working on the Mary Kom biopic talks about how he enhanced a cut mark that Priyanka sustained on the sets of the film. Mary Kom’s biopic has turned out to be a daunting task for Priyanka Chopra. The actress has suffered several injuries and one happened recently when a mistimed punch landed under her right eye while shooting at Dharmshala. Fortunately, the injury wasn’t too serious but it was enough to stall the shoot for almost an hour.

“Priyanka was filming a boxing scene with an actor from the North- East. She fell on the floor due to the impact. She got the shot spot on, so director Oomung Kumar decided to retain it. The cut mark that you will eventually see on screen under her eye is real but we did touch it up with makeup to make it look deeper,” says Uday Shirale, who has been working on Priyanka’s look. The makeup artiste refutes rumours that Priyanka uses prosthetic make-up throughout the film. “The prosthetics haven’t taken me longer than an hour. Mostly, its regular make-up and she’d be ready in 20 minutes flat,” he says.

Actress Priyanka Chopra has topped the list of the most dangerous celebrities in the Indian cyberspace this year followed by Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, according to a study. Priyanka knocked off Sunny Leone, who topped the list last year but dropped to the ninth position this time, in the study by security software maker McAfee. Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar were in the top five in the study which highlights how cybercriminals use celebrities to take advantage of fans seeking more information about their idols.

“In India where celebrities enjoy demigod status, cybercriminals often use their names to lure people to sites which host malicious software designed to compromise personal details and disrupt devices,” said the company’s spokesperson. This year, searching for a celebrity’s name, with search terms like “wall paper”, “videos” and “nude pictures” resulted in the highest instances of malwareladen sites. Chopra, showed 79 infected search results, while Shah Rukh was at the second spot with 75 malicious sites, Salman ranked third, with 68 infected sites. The top-10 list was rounded off by Saif Ali Khan, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Leone and Hrithik Roshan.

While Priyanka Chopra’s flying high post the success of Barfi!, she asserts that her de-glam avatar in the film hasn’t alienated her fan base. The actor says, “Not wearing makeup doesn’t make one any less an actor. At the same time, you can be a very good actor with complete makeup on, for example my role in Fashion, which won me the National Award.” Releasing close on the heels of Barfi! was Heroine, and we can’t help but wonder what Priyanka means, when she tells us, “I don’t just want to be a heroine, I want to be a female actor.” She adds, “The difference in the latter comes through when one is known as an actor who is able to carry off any role.

I don’t know what the norm is; I don’t know what kind of films I should be doing or what I am supposed to be doing. I don’t know what is right or whether I should be saying ‘Oh yes, I am working with all five Khans’.” Up next, PC, who will be seen in Zanjeer alongside Ram Charan Tej, informs us that she will be doing a special number in the film. “Zanjeer is my film, so I don’t know whether it is an item number technically, but it will be an item,” she says. Prod her on why she hasn’t taken up special numbers in films that don’t feature her in the lead role and she says, “A lot of offers have come my way, but nothing that strikes a chord. Though, I have been dying to do a full jhatak dance song as I haven’t done one for a while. Zanjeer will see me doing that,” she says.