{"id":2185396,"date":"2025-12-03T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2185396"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:49:45","slug":"priyanka-chopra-said-the-industry-felt-crazy-when-she-entered-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/priyanka-chopra-said-the-industry-felt-crazy-when-she-entered-bollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra said the industry felt crazy when she entered Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Priyanka Chopra is opening up about her early days in Bollywood, and she isn\u2019t sugar-coating the struggle. The actor, now a global star and an established producer, said she often felt really lost when she first entered the industry, coming from a family with no film background. And it\u2019s this feeling of being an outsider that continues to shape the choices she makes today as a producer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to PTI, Chopra, who runs the production house Purple Pebble Pictures, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/movies\/celebrities\/story\/priyanka-chopra-balancing-acting-producing-varanasi-jee-le-zaraa-2830006-2025-12-03?utm_source=global-search&amp;utm_medium=global-search&amp;utm_campaign=global-search\" target=\"_blank\">said her experiences pushed her<\/a> to champion stories and filmmakers who often get sidelined by mainstream cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Her banner has backed independent features and documentaries, including Ventilator and Paani. More recently, she supported the documentary Born Hungry, which follows celebrity chef Sash Simpson\u2019s remarkable journey \u2013 from a difficult childhood in India to his adoption in Canada and rise to global success. The film is currently available to stream in India.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Chopra said her instinct as a producer comes from empathy and lived experience. &#8220;As a producer, I&#8217;m empathetic, and our ethos is a lot around wanting to give opportunities to newer filmmakers or filmmakers that want to achieve something that they haven&#8217;t been able to or are kind of hitting a wall somewhere. My production side kind of comes from what personally moves me,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"62\" awidth=\"320\" aheight=\"62\" amplayout=\"fixed\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/sites\/indiatoday\/banner\/preferred-source-new.html?v=1.014\" class=\"preferred-source-banner\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at her early years in Bollywood, Chopra said she didn\u2019t understand why she was naturally drawn to filmmakers and stories that felt \u201cmarginalised\u201d or \u201cnot what is expected\u201d until she connected the dots.<\/p>\n<p>She explained, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know why I was gravitating towards filmmakers and stories that were maybe marginalised or told that they&#8217;re not what is expected. As I&#8217;m talking about it, I think it does come from the fact that when I joined the industry, I didn&#8217;t have it. I was trying to navigate this crazy movie industry by myself with my parents, who were doctors and who also had no idea about the business. And I kind of felt really lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the acting front, Chopra is set for a grand <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/movies\/celebrities\/story\/priyanka-chopra-shares-photos-with-legends-mahesh-babu-prithviraj-2821712-2025-11-18?utm_source=global-search&amp;utm_medium=global-search&amp;utm_campaign=global-search\" target=\"_blank\">homecoming in 2027 with Varanasi<\/a>, directed by SS Rajamouli and co-starring Mahesh Babu and Prithviraj Sukumaran. The project will mark her first Indian release in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ends<\/p>\n<div class=\"authors__container\">\n<div class=\"published__on\">\n<p>Published On: <\/p>\n<p>Dec 3, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.indiatoday.in \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priyanka Chopra is opening up about her early days in Bollywood, and she isn\u2019t sugar-coating the struggle. The actor, now a global star and an established producer, said she often felt really lost when she first entered the industry, coming from a family with no film background. 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