Is Priyanka Chopra back in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heera Mandi?.

Is Priyanka Chopra going to be doing
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's gangster
drama Heera Mandi after all? The
indications are strong. However, no
confirmations are coming from either
the filmmaker or actress. News on this
film, in which Priyanka was reportedly
going to be playing a sex worker, broke
out as early as in February 2017 on
YouTube. There was no follow-up
because SLB got busy
with Padmaavat and Priyanka
with Quantico and Baywatch after that.
But the buzz was that she had walked
out of SLB's film.
Priyanka Chopra with Sanjay Leela
Bhansali
Now PeepingMoon.com sources hint that
SLB has started prep work on Heera
Mandi and four songs have been
recorded. It is likely he will announce the
film's release in November. Bollywood is
waiting to see if Priyanka will be in it.
The actress, who last worked with SLB
in Bajirao Mastani (2015), was to make
her comeback to Bollywood through
Salman Khan's Bharat. But she backed
out reportedly to get engaged to
American musician Nick Jonas. However,
sources suggest that Priyanka had
signed the Hollywood film Cowboy Ninja
Viking opposite Guardians of The
Galaxy and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt
and wanted to give that (not Bharat) her
full attention.
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But Cowboy Ninja Viking is now
indefinitely delayed. And Priyanka finds
herself with nothing new in hand. Not
even another season of Quantico which
has run its course. Is it likely, then, that
there have been secret parleys between
SLB and the actress for Heera Mandi? The
film is reportedly a biopic on the
notorious mafia queen Gangubai
Kothewali of the 1950s who ran a chain
of brothels in Bombay and is believed to
have complained to Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru about the problems
her trade faced in the city.
But PeepingMoon.com sources are not
sure about this because just last month
SLB's spokesperson denied the
filmmaker had discussed any such film
with Priyanka. Now the actress will next
be seen in Shonali Bose's The Sky Is
Pink opposite Farhan Akhtar that she is
co-producing along with Ronnie
Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur. And
she's wrapped up Hollywood's 2019
Valentine Day release Isn't It Romantic in
which her co-stars are Adam Devine,
Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsworth.

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