Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible Story Of A Global Bollywood Star

Once upon a time a girl said, ‘In India, real people don’t become movie stars.’ The same girl became the biggest crossover star. That very girl can’t walk around in New York City now ‘without being mobbed’. That’s Priyanka Chopra for you. The quintessential ‘Girl Uninterrupted’. She came from a small-town middle-class family in North India. During the Miss India contest, she was grilled by none other than Shah Rukh Khan. She prevailed and won the hearts of millions. There was no looking back after that. Bollywood happened; and years later, she crossed over to America, as a pop singer, as a television star and as a Hollywood actress. Soon, New York City was plastered with posters of her from Quantico, a major television show in the US. Films like Baywatch followed. Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible Story of a Global Bollywood Star by Aseem Chhabrais explores everything that led to her phenomenal success—in Bollywood and Hollywood. Peppered with anecdotes and events from her life behind the screen, her real story is too a blockbuster. This is her incredible story, told with much flourish and detailing.

Review

‘She is our hugest crossover success story… Today the sky could be her limit.’ —Karan Johar

‘Priyanka is an amazing actor…even if you give her a flawed character, she will find humanity in it. That’s who she is.’—Zoya Akhtar

‘Priyanka Chopra was an absolute go-getter.’—Suneel Darshan, who gave Priyanka her first Hindi film

‘She is always stretching to do better….’—Vishal Bhardwaj

About the Author

Aseem Chhabrais the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed book Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star (2016). A film journalist, freelance writer, and film festival programmer in New York City, he has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Outlook, Mumbai Mirror, and Rediff.com; has a regular column in The Hindu; and has been a commentator on Indian cinema and popular culture on NPR, CNN, BBC, as also ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’, Associated Press, and Reuters.

Aseem is the festival director of the New York Indian Film Festival and the Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh. He is also the voice of Shadow Puppet #1 in director Nina Paley’s award-winning animated film, Sita Sings the Blues.

Aseem is from Delhi, lives in New York, and visits India often. He can be followed on Twitter @chhabs.