Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra, whose last Bollywood release was ‘The Sky Is Pink’ in 2019, shared during a recent interview that she never wanted to step away from the Hindi film industry, but was forced to look for new opportunities.
“I don’t think I ever wanted to leave Bollywood. I felt limited for many reasons when I was working in Hindi films. I wanted to expand. I was kind of pushed into wanting to look for opportunities that would be exciting to me as an artiste. I landed up working in America and now, I feel like, after almost 12 years or so, I am finding the momentum to pick and choose really amazing work and that’s not easy,” Priyanka was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
Priyanka, who has been a part of several Hollywood projects including ‘The Bluff’, ‘Citadel’, ‘Heads of State’, ‘Love Again’ and ‘Quantico’, is making her comeback to Indian cinema with SS Rajamouli’s ‘Varansai’, alongside Mahesh Babu.
“I love my Indian films. I am really happy to be doing Varanasi back in India again and I would hate to have to choose between the two. I never have. I feel like I straddle both worlds and I enjoy working in both industries. They are both different to work with in many ways just as cultures are, but now, my brain can work in two different ways now so it’s really a unique, amazing, fun thing to be able to do,” Priyanka said.
