Priyanka Chopra: OMG is that your gun? can I hold it please
The promotional song Mumbai Ka Hero for Apoorva Lakhia's Zanjeer is out. In the song, Priyanka Chopra, dressed in khaki hot pants and a tight shirt is slithering all over Ram Charan Teja suggestively and mouthing the following lewd words: 'Oh My God, Is That Your Gun? Can I Hold It Please?' Instant recall of classic Mae West dialogue from She Done Him Wrong, 'Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?' Yes, but one is cheesy, the other classy.
What was Priyanka thinking while shooting the song and uttering the suggestive words? Or did she not get the double-meaning in the Mumbai Ka Hero? "Oh I am sure she got it," says a director who has worked with
the actress. "Come on, PC is just having fun with that song. Why not see it as ditsy spoof on those wide-eyed blonde videos?"
In one of the shots in the song, PC and Teja are facing each other and he holds out the gun in front of him, pointing downwards. Ms Chopra holds the gun, and goes down on her knees. It's enough to 'blow' your mind. Wonder if such phallic references would be accepted by the audiences in the spirit of fun.
Recently the buxom starlet in the trailer of Grand Masti tells Vivek Oberoi, "I own two milk factories. If you wish I can give you their darshan in the night." Another starlet coos over Riteish Deshmukh's 'rocket'. While that is fine in a sex comedy (one doesn't really expect the makers of a sex comedy to show any kind of social responsibility) one does expect PC with her high-credibility level as an actress and an individual to steer clear of such lewd lyrics.
Jumping to her defence, one of her current directors says, "Priyanka is doing too many serious films like Barfi and Mary Kom. She has to bring out the lighter fun side of her personality." Right.
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