Priyanka Chopra ‘mis-quoted’ about Indian male actors comment

Priyanka Chopra has been successful in everything she has recently worked on, including her recent Indian film releases and work in Bollywood. The public is looking forward to her Hollywood film venture, ‘Baywatch’, but recently she made news for ‘allegedly’ making comments about Indian male actors and how they  “need guts to try [their luck] in Hollywood”.

According to Hindustan Times, she said, “Again, as usual, I was misquoted. When they [the media] asked me why the male actors weren’t doing anything, I said, ‘Maybe because they haven’t tried’. That’s all I said. I don’t know where ‘guts’ came from. I didn’t use the word, ‘guts’, and whatever I said was said in a lighter vein.”

She continued to comment on Indian actresses in the West, “I don’t know why the boys haven’t. Anil Kapoor has done it. He has gone out of his way to [work in Hollywood], but not many other Indian actors have. Try kare toh ho sakta hai (it might work out if they try). Irrfan (Khan) and Anil are the only two [actors] that come to mind.”

Many actresses such as Anushka Sharma and Kareena Kapoor Khan have complimented Chopra, “I feel an extra push [when I hear such things]. I don’t feel the pressure. Jab apna ghar ka support hota hai na (When you are supported by your people), it feels great.”

Chopra is constantly wanting to do better and bigger things, and she said, “In normal life, too, if a girl wants to go to college and if her parents support her, she will feel ki main karke dikhaungi (I will do it). So, I never feel [pressured] and like, ‘Oh, ab mereko accha kaam karna padega’ (I will have to do good work from now on).”

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