Priyanka Chopra says projects taken away from her

Priyanka Chopra is making her return to the Indian film industry with Rajamouli's magum opus Varanasi which stars Mahesh Babu in the lead role.

Priyanka Chopra speaking to scribes shared, "Not something I talk about too much, but I've had people who've taken films away from me because I might not agree with them, or I might not have, you know... I've not, may have let myself into the same situations with others, which they may have been used to, you know, in catering to people and stuff like that."

Priyanka said "My male co-star from a supposed next film visited her on the set of the 2007 film Salaam-E-Ishq.I thought he was there to support her, since they were supposed to start filming their movie the next month, but that wasn't the case. "He goes, 'The director gave you this movie by mistake. It was his mistake. This was always supposed to go to this other girl, but we will do another one together, don't worry about it. I just wanted to tell you myself.' And he ate some food and left," she recalled during a chat at Harvard Business School earlier this year."

She said "My heart just crushed and I was like, 'I signed a contract. Like, what do you mean?' But that's how it was," she shared, and added that this happened many times. She said she was "rethinking" her career at that point but decided to "focus on my craft," which eventually paid off. "That took me through my career and got me more work,"

---- Pramod Nandivada