Married to the moment
RANA SIDDIQUI
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Priyanka Chopra makes a short appearance in Delhi.
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Now, my audiences have a right to have an opinion on me.
Photo: S. SUBRAMANIUM
YOURS TRULY Priyanka Chopra answers all queries with remarkable ease.
A few years into tinsel town and Priyanka Chopra has learnt the ways of filmdom. She has overcome her "innately shy" nature before the presspersons. She handles questions with aplomb. She flutters her false eyelashes that highlight her almond-shaped eyes. She is never stingy with smiles. She capitalises on her husky voice to draw attention.
She was in Delhi recently as the new brand ambassador for Tag Heuer watches. But as if she got a chance to speak her heart, she shared, "Star status is not easy to handle, especially when you don't come from the family of celebrities. I have seen both sides of life; one being a girl from Dehra Dun, getting excited over new danglers arriving in the local market. I could roam around in my city like a free bird. Filmdom has taken away that freedom though it has given me a lot in return. Now, my audiences have a right to have an opinion on me. Whether I like it or not, I have to share with them everything that I do. If I won't, I would be labelled arrogant. If I shed genuine tears in public, it may be taken as a publicity stunt."
Emotional me
Being emotional by nature she has shed genuine tears more than once during film shooting. Compliment her on anything and note her eyes getting moist. She cites a recent example of how she lost control over her tears in a scene from "Salaam-e-Ishq". "In the scene where I get to know that my boy friend Rahul (played by Salman Khan) has died, I don't know what happened to me, I started crying. Because I was in the middle of the shot, they thought I was acting. But I could barely manage my tears thinking what happens if a girl hears news of the death of her boyfriend?" Going back to her other films, now cinemagoers might see the release of the long delayed "Big Brother" in the near future. Priyanka says that this was the first Hindi film she shot for. "We shot for it in 2003. I play an auto driver's wife in it. We have just re-shot a song to make it look like today's film."
She has "God Tusi Great Ho", a comedy with Salman Khan, and "Love Story-2050" and "Sahab Biwi Aur Ghulam" in her kitty. "Love Story" is about two lovers from today's age who reach the era 2050? "It is technically very sound through which the director has tried to foresee future. For me `Drona' by Goldie Bahl is very important because in this I play a bodyguard to Abhishek Bachchan. For this film I learnt martial art called gotkha."
Remaking "Umrao Jaan" proved almost fatal for J.P Dutta for he couldn't weave Muzaffar Ali's magic. Its failure doesn't bother Priyanka who continues with "Sahab Biwi Aur Ghulam", the remake of Meena Kumari's film.
"I don't know why people didn't like the new `Umrao Jaan'. But its failure doesn't mean that `Sahab... ' is under shadow too. I have given my consent to work in it anyway," she asserts. Married to her work, married to the moment!
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