Download Free eBooks – Chose From Over A Million Titles For Free With ReadingFanatic App! www.readingfanatic.com Even as the country celebrates her success story, Priyanka Chopra talks about grief, gender parity and celebrity endorsement In the noise of sound bytes, one thing that is constant is the composure of Priyanka Chopra. Her answers make even silly questions sound good. From her desire to run on roller skates in the corridors of the Rashtrapati Bhavan to buying a plane, she makes sure every journalist returns with a quote. She knows the significance of the moment. So no designer outfit, Priyanka turned up in a lime green handloom sari in support of textile industry, the proceeds of which will go to an NGO. When Padma Shri Priyanka Chopra, finally, sits down to have a chat, one could not help but ask if it is like a mid-life time achievement award? “No, I have been told I am the youngest actress to get a Padma Shri. It is an answer to those misogynistic people who used to say that an actress remains fresh only in her 20s. It is an answer to those who treat women like a commodity and ignore their talent,” she responds with a twinkle in her eyes.
“By the way can you put this question to middle-aged men in the industry,” the 33-year-old comes with a light-hearted rejoinder.
After the demise of her father, many felt that Priyanka turned her grief into her strength and went about her job with almost missionary zeal. She has been consistently punching above her weight. More than the destiny’s child that she loves to call herself; Priyanka is a gutsy survivor, who never lost touch with her roots. “Grief is grief and whatever grief you have it follows you like a companion. Whatever you may do, wherever you try to escape, when you turn you find it staring at you. I have a strange relationship with grief,” Priyanka stops mid-way.
