Priyanka Chopra made her Bollywood debut after being a pageant winner. Since then, the actress has come a long way and made space for herself in the industry against all odds. Just when she was at the top of her game here, PC decided to move to another industry and start all over again. In a recent interview, adman Prahlad Kakkar who has known Priyanka from her initial days in the industry, has lauded the journey of the actress, while also revealing that she made it, despite several disadvantages. He said during a chat with Vickey Lalwani, “Priyanka had huge disadvantages at that time. First, she was dark. Second, she had a bad skin. And she still does. Okay, so her skin had to be actually made up and covered. And then she was a strong-looking girl. She lost a lot of weight to look like the way she did in Dostana. She looked like a million dollars in ‘Dostana’. I mean, there’s no question about it. She had to work damn hard at it because she’s not a delicate-looking girl. She’s a big-boned girl. So you don’t, you’re not just losing weight on your flesh. You’re also having to deal with a skeleton.”
Further appreciating how she’s come so far, he said, “You are getting big roles, you are getting parts, you are not top of the line anymore, and you decide, f**k it, I am going to restart my career again. How many people can do that?”When asked about his experience with her, Prahlad said, “Priyanka is a doll, she’s a great person to work with. She’s very ambitious, she’s very single-minded, she’s very focused. And she has a certain sense of dignity which she will not allow people to enter. So, her whole, this whole so-called affair, she never made a comment on it. Everybody else was commenting. She never said anything. She held her dignity. And if it was a frivolous relationship, she would have laughed. Obviously, it was serious. So, it was very personal to her. She didn’t want it to be written about, she didn’t want to be talked about it.”
