Indian actress Priyanka Chopra recently revealed why she left Bollywood and the reason was she was not getting cast.
Priyanka in a recent podcast said ‘I was being pushed into a corner in the (Hindi film) industry. I had people not casting me for reasons, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break.’
Priyanka Chopra made her way into Hollywood after she starred in the 2015 television series Quantico but way before that, PC featured in a few music videos as she was trying to make it as an international music artist.
With songs like ‘In My City’ and ‘Exotic’, PC was trying to showcase her singing talent but eventually focused on her acting career in the West. In the same podcast, she also touched upon how colourism was normalised in the industry and how it impacted some of her professional endeavours.
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In particular, the star spoke about her appearance in advertisements for fairness creams and shared that her skin tone had been lightened in several movies. Priyanka Chopra also went on to describe the advertisements that promised young girls a bright future only if they had lighter skin tones as extremely ‘damaging’.
Sharing her experience, Priyanka Chopra said:, “I remember when I joined movies, I was considered dusky, written as the dusky actress and I was like ‘What is dusky? What does it mean?’. Yet, I did a commercial because you are doing a beauty brand. A beauty brand is a really big part of an actress’ trajectory. And all the beauty brands were selling those creams,” referring to fairness creams.
On the work front, Priyanka Chopra will be seen next in the film Love Again and the web series Citadel. In Bollywood, she will be seen in Jee Le Zaraa.
