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| An Unforgettable Day for Priyanka Chopra |
 Priyanka Chopra will never forget August 30, 2008. On Saturday, she travelled in a local train all the way from Goregaon to Churchgate, and the train had no other passengers except Priyanka and her five staff members!When contacted, Priyanka confirmed the news and said, "Yes, I did travel only with my staff members in a local train from Goregaon to Churchgate." As Priyanka urgently had to reach NCPA, Nariman Point at 8 pm for an award ceremony, the producers of Kaminey, Mubina Rattonsey and Vishal Bharadwaj arranged for the train. A friend of Priyanka confirmed the news and said, "Priyanka was shooting for Kaminey and the shoot was being conducted in a local train. The train was shuttling between Goregaon and South Mumbai. The shoot was called off when the train reached Goregaon around 6.15 pm." "Priyanka was in a fix as she had to reach NCPA for an award ceremony (where she received an award for Excellence in Cinema). Priyanka knew that she would have never reached NCPA at the scheduled time thanks to Mumbai's traffic. If she had taken her car, she wouldn't have made to the venue before 9.30 pm. Rattonsey and Bharadwaj realised her problem and asked her to take the same train all the way to Churchgate. As it is, they had the permission to shoot in that train all day on Saturday. It was an unbelievable sight! Uss poori khali train mein sirf Priyanka aur uske paanch staff members the," Priyanka's friend added. Priyanka arrived at Churchgate station at 7.30 pm. The awards ceremony organisers sent a car to pick her up from Churchgate station. Some of Priyanka's staff who were not with her on the train even suggested that she should step out of the local train in a burkha. But Priyanka flatly refused even though many people recognised her when she got off at Churchgate station. Her staff had arranged for a few security guards who immediately took her to her car. Priyanka added, "It was very kind of my producers Mubina Rattonsey and Vishal Bharadwaj to arrange the train for me so that I could reach the event on time. I felt completely pampered. A whole train for me and my staff! It was great fun." |
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