Your Call with Priyanka Chopra

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Your Call with Priyanka Chopra: Full Transcript

NDTVMovies.Com | Sunday, September 16, 2012 (New Delhi)

Priyanka Chopra at the launch of her debut music single, In My City

Actress and now singer Priyanka Chopra talks to NDTV's Sonia Singh about her film Barfi!, her new music single and her Bollywood journey so far.

NDTV: Good Evening and welcome to Your Call. Joining me tonight is a young woman who is on top of the world, she is an actress who's never shied away from taking a role that's different, she is a single independent women who's made her mark in an industry which is often dominated by camps and she is also now on the verge of a new career in music. Priyanka Chopra joins me tonight. Priyanka thanks a lot for coming in.

Priyanka Chopra: Thank you so much.

NDTV: Let's have some glimpses of that journey.

Priyanka Chopra: Okay

NDTV: Priyanka just that short montage showed me an actress who can really act. Now from Desi Girl to Barfi! what was that like for you? I made the point that you don't shy away from taking roles that are different. Barfi! is really different.

Priyanka Chopra: It is, as a part it is really different but as a film it's an entertaining, I mean at least according to us, it's an entertaining commercial movie, but with a spin on it. I mean usually when you see differently-abled people or films that are made with differently-abled people, either they are caricatures of their disabilities or they are somewhere made to evoke a sort of sympathy or an emotion from us, which makes us feel like hai bichara or poor thing.

Barfi! is not that, which is why it's so fresh, it's a sunshine movie, it shows you that everyone has a right to love and live and you don't need too much to be happy, so that's the reason, Barfi!.

NDTV: How did it change your perception? Because, I mean usually commercial cinema you've had Sadma, you've had Black, but you've haven't had the point you made. You haven't had many roles like this, how did it change your perception that you had of people who are differently-abled?

Priyanka Chopra: It actually changed my perception towards life, because the film is not about disabilities. The film has nothing to do with disabilities. It just so happens that these two people are disabled. The story is a love story between these three people, the guy, Ranbir's character, is deaf and mute, I am autistic and Shruti, which is played by Ileana, her point of view is the audience's point of view. She comes into this different world of these two people with disabilities, and how you will feel when you watch the film is how she feels, so it's beautifully done. It's completely not about what, my perspective on life changed with this film actually. I started feeling that, you know, Barfi is deaf and mute, he has no money; he has no parents, nothing. She's autistic, but you really don't need much to feel the beauty in life, and we, in our every day, you know running after success or running after wanting to grow in lives, we kind of forget that, it takes you back to the basics

NDTV: It's great actually that you brought this to the mainstream. But again when I travel back in time, the beginning for us, at least, of Priyanka Chopra, was that young beautiful, but gawky 17 year old and, now I see very confident poised Priyanka. When you look back, what's common in those two Priyanka's?

Priyanka Chopra: Not much actually.

NDTV: Really?

Priyanka Chopra: But yet, at the, I mean, but the one thing that's common is my basics which are my roots, where I come from, who I believe I am. Even when I was a gawky 17-year old I could, I was very confident.I may not have believed in myself, but I could fake it. When I was at Miss India, at 17, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what I was saying. I was picked out of my uniform in 12th standard and suddenly became Miss World and life changed. I don't know how it changed, I don't know what, I didn't know what I was doing, I was only listening to people, trying to grope my way into show business, whether it was beauty pageants or whether it was movies. When movies happened I didn't have a Godfather, I didn't go to acting school, I didn't; my parents hadn't even come to Bombay so it was new. I fell. I tripped. I dusted myself off. I tried again, didn't give up, I guess that's why I am here

NDTV: What did you learn on the way?

Priyanka Chopra: That I didn't know who I was. When I started I was trying to be what I needed to be, I was trying to be Miss India, I was trying to be Miss World, I was trying to be an actress. I think just about over the last 3 years or so is when I've kind of started finding myself, and becoming okay with my mistakes, or my decisions, or being okay with the fact that you can't please everyone, and it's important to be able to be content with yourself.

And I've realized that just over the last few years. I had to grow up so soon or at least fake that I grew up, that I never went through the process of metamorphosis that you go through after adolescence and going into college, and you know doing all of those things. I didn't have that, so I think that's happened, I regressed over the last few years and kind of reached that point.

NDTV: Well, I am going to actually look at that regression as you put it and how it goes. But tell me, you know as a role model I think that point you've made, really about being independent, standing on your own feet and doing it in your own terms. I remember reading that when it started off it wasn't that easy. I mean you had people telling you look you can't be in this film because so and so wants someone else, what was that all about, which were the films firstly?

Priyanka Chopra: I can't tell you that.

NDTV: Why? You're independent and outspoken now.

Priyanka Chopra: No, no, I am out spoken but I am also sensible.

NDTV: Yes, true.

Priyanka Chopra: I don't need controversies anymore please, but it has happened to me, I have never shied away from it. I've been thrown out of films because other people have, are supposed to be cast in it, because they 're recommended. I've been thrown out of films for many various reasons, because, or I have not got the opportunity to do films, because it was viable, because I didn't have the backing. But for me luckily I've always had incredible support from the audience and fans, whether it was my first film to when I did, I've always taken risks.

I've always done things which people call stupid at that time, like when I first did Aitraaz, it, everyone told me, it was the first year of films for me, and everyone told me you know you'll just remain a vamp. If you ever want to be a heroine this is a wrong film for you to do. My co-actor, in fact, Akshay was one of the first people who told me that you'll be stupid if you don't do the film. Abbas Mastan of course, but he was the director. But a lot of people around me told me it's a wrong decision, but it worked in my favour, very, very much.

When I did Fashion people said that nobody watches heroine-oriented films. Picture ko opening nahi lagegi, koi dekhta nahi hain, end of the career main log karthe hain ,tum kya kar rahi ho? But I believed in it, Madhur and I worked really hard. We worked about 6 months on the script of Fashion.

We promoted the living day lights out of it, it started with the whole team, it ended up just Madhur and me, till like after the film had released as well, and it worked for me. Sometimes the opportunities don't work sometimes I take risks and films may not do well. When I did What's Your Rashee? I really believed in it. Today being, having a world record of playing that many parts for any female is an achievement for me. When I did Saat Khoon Maaf the critical acclaim I got with it, even though it was a film, which may not have spun the kind of money that we would have wanted to. But I've always had so much support in my risks from fans that, I think that's what keeps me going.

NDTV: In fact as a woman actress is that really tough? Because we've seen that, one you don't get the same payment of course as male actors do, that's true whether it's in Hollywood or Bollywood, and it's still, I mean you had Fashion, now there's a Heroine, but the fact is that just a film around a woman actress won't get into the 100 crore club, and that's what everybody seems to be talking about nowadays

Priyanka Chopra: You know Sonia it's unfair to say that movies haven't evolved. Whatever it is, we are delusional if we turn around and say yes.

NDTV: Priyanka, sorry we are just talking about Fashion and Heroine and I've got Madhur Bhandarkar on the line to just say hi to you, and well, go ahead and ask your questions Madhur, go ahead with your questions for Priyanka.

Madhur Bhandarkar: Well I don't have any question for her. I think she is the most talented actress and she has done a fab job in Fashion and I am looking forward for Barfi!, and I am sure she will surprise her audience with her performance in Barfi! also

Priyanka Chopra: Sir, jee.

NDTV: Madhur, so then can I ask you after Fashion, why not this heroine for Heroine?

Madhur Bhandarkar: Already one movie is pending with PC, because she is a very dear friend of mine and I really enjoyed working with her and definitely we are looking forward to work together in future

Priyanka Chopra: Arey aise thodi na hota hain. That means after Fashion my next film should have also been with Madhur, just because I've worked with another director. You should ask me, why not Madhur?

NDTV: I have to ask some masala questions yaar, what do you think?

Priyanka Chopra: Sirjee Jalwa lagh rahi hain aapki film lekin, thank you so much.

Madhur Bhandarkar: Thank you so much yaar PC. Thank you so much. I hope Jalwa happens jalwa.

Priyanka Chopra: Hoyega hi kaise nahi ho saktha aapke saath.

NDTV: Madhur just to ask you, I was just asking her about the 100 crore club and why is it that Bollywood is still so male dominated? But you've always taken strong female actresses, you don't think that it's all about just the actors, and the actresses are just the extras? I think we've got Madhur's actresses, go ahead we were talking about that actually and we were talking about Heroine, Fashion being one of the few films that were actually female dominated

Priyanka Chopra: I think actually Fashion kick started it. I can't say it's one of the few films, it kick started the process of female dominated films. Today you have so many other films, which have done well with female leads, for example

NDTV: Dirty Picture.

Priyanka Chopra: Yes Dirty Picture spun so much money. Yes it may not have touched a hundred crores, but for the budget it was made, if you see the ratio of it, it's a huge success, its a runaway success. Kahaani another one of them, Heroine coming up, I am sure will do really well. But we have to give credit to the fact that film industry; the Hindi film industry is evolving. Whatever it is we cannot be delusional about the fact that India is a male-dominated society, that is how India is.

NDTV: Not just India actually.

Priyanka Chopra: Yes I mean, India a lot more than the world, we have to say that. I mean being women today we can be feminist and say yes it should be equality, but it will take time to get there, but we are starting there, the process has started.

The female, it's a great time for the female actors to be in the Hindi film business. We are not just reduced to 5 songs and 20 scenes where we just have to cry; where we are the damsels in distress. Yeah we do those films too, but those are entertaining movies and I love being a Hindi film heroine and I love the fact, you know, my sari is wet and I am dancing in the rain, and I love doing that stuff too. It's entertainment; I've grown up on it. But at the same time I know that today, directors come to me with films saying, if you don't do the film we can't do the film, and that is a big deal for Hindi cinema.

NDTV: Yes that's great. One thing that doesn't gel however, the snide remarks. You open the newspaper and you see Kareena saying well Fashion is going to be better than Heroine and who cares about national awards, so the snide remarks don't change in Bollywood?

Priyanka Chopra: Well I guess if you don't have one then you, then you know, what do I say?

NDTV: Let's go across to some more fun bits, and I've got actually some young people from your school.

Priyanka Chopra: Oh my God, really?

NDTV: To ask you a question, so here they are so let's go across to them.

Questioner 1: Hi Priyanka, I'm Kushal, I just want to ask you, when you were in school what kind of a student were you? Were you studious or were you a backbencher?

Questioner 2: Hi Priyanka, this is Vaishnavi Agarwal. I like to ask you a question, what was the most embarrassing thing that you ever did?

Questioner 3: Hello, I am Joyitha and Priyanka, I want to ask a question to you. I want to ask that did you ever play a prank with your teacher?

Questioner 4: Hi Priyanka, I am Iffat Mariam and I want to ask, as Anushreedi asked you that, which is your most forgettable movie? I want to ask that which is your most unforgettable movie, that you can never forget, your favourite one?

NDTV: How cute, you were in that same uniform when you were in school.

Priyanka Chopra: Ya ya.

NDTV: What cute ...

Priyanka Chopra: About four months before, not even four months, one month before Miss India, I was in that uniform.

NDTV: Wow.

Priyanka Chopra: One month and about six months before Miss World

NDTV: That's really cute questions your most unforgettable movie and your most forgettable movie.

Priyanka Chopra: Forgettable though I won't say. But my unforgettable, my most unforgettable film would have to be Aitraaz, because at that time I was so young and I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know. The only thing I knew was when I play this part I want to, it was a very sexually progressive character and the only thing that I knew in that entire film, at the age of 20-21, was that whatever sexuality I show in the movie has to be on my face, it won't be in my clothes.

I won't be wearing short shorts and little skirts and you know sitting in, I didn't want it to be tramped. That was the only thing I knew in my head. So I wore pant suits, I made it very elegant, I made it pearls and I did gowns and I did all those things, so whatever characterization I had to do, I had to be with my voice, my deliberation of my hands and it's so funny, I didn't know all these things, it just instinctively came to me and so that is why I think it's, it's one of my biggest lessons, doing that film

NDTV: That's interesting because, in a way I think your perception again as somebody who could actually act came after that movie.

Priyanka Chopra: Yes it did.

NDTV: They also asked you, your most embarrassing moment.

Priyanka Chopra: My most embarrassing moment? I've had quite a few, actually faux pas moments, because I've not been so well trained in this whole thing. I guess faux pas are a part and parcel of it, most embarrassing, the casual tripping on stage and all of those things. Though I always do, but having really confidently believing in an outfit I am wearing, and I can't remember an exact moment. I wish I could tell you. Those school questions, can we go to those, were really cute.

NDTV: Yes, you can answer those one's as well. What you did, what was it that you did in school, were you a backbencher or were you studious?

Priyanka Chopra: I was a bit of both. I pretended to be studious but I was actually a backbencher, and pranks that I played with my teachers are lot, I really did. I was a very good student when I came to Army School, where they are probably from. I was a science student. It was very hard on me because I had just come back from America. I studied, I did my high school in America and I had just come back, so the syllabus was really difficult change for me. And I was a national honour's role student when I was in America, and I came back here and I was like, uhh oh my God, tuitions, tuitions, tuitions, it was really hard. But yea, I used to put spiders in drawers; I use to throw spitballs. I was a bad kid.

NDTV: Bad kid. Let's go across to Lucknow, let's go across to Mumbai and we've got some students there to ask you questions, let's hear what they have to say.

Questioner 5: Hey Priyanka, kaise ho? When are you going to sing in one of our Bollywood movies?

Questioner 6: Hi Desi Girl. What do you think is that one thing that is got you up to stardom and you would never sacrifice it, even when you would reach at the peak of your career?

Questioner 7: Hi Priyanka you are one of Bollywood's top actresses is there a memory in your acting career that you will never forget?

Questioner 8: What's up Priyanka? See you've done so many awesome movies so like which is your favourite dialogue out of all of these movies?

Questioner 9: We would want to dedicate just one thing to you.

NDTV: That song is still associated with you wherever you go.

Priyanka Chopra: I'll always be called Desi Girl. It will always be me, and in fact it's so funny, when I was working on my album everybody said you know, that should be your tag. That should be your tag. So we are kind of going to use it, hopefully, in a few of my songs as well, because I mean desi is such a cool word and I am proud to be one.

NDTV: He asked why you are not singing in the movies here, but you are actually going much bigger. Tell us about that?

Priyanka Chopra: Okay, this is it. I always wanted to sing. I knew how to sing before I knew the alphabet because my dad sings. I grew up in a very musical home, my mom is very fond of music though she likes English and he likes Hindi. So I grew up with a very different mix of musical influences. I always was in the choir. I was always doing, you know, shows. I mean Broadway-like a musical in school theatre, but I never took it seriously. I wanted to be an engineer. I never thought that I would, show business was.

When you come from an academic family you don't really think that you can be an actor. Actors are people on another planet somewhere. Hote honge, they come on TV, it doesn't strike you. So when my life just kind of unfolded and happened to me, music was a part of it. I sang for Miss India's My Talent, I sang I did. A lot of my music director friends have always, Vishal Shekhar, Salim Suleiman, have always, Vishal Bharadwaj wanted me to sing for my films but I just, I went into studio and I used to come out. I wouldn't want to do it, maybe because, somewhere, destiny was preparing me for this to happen.

NDTV: Your song at the NFL, I mean that's huge for, have you, just tell us how big NFL is in America and which song of yours, which single is actually going to be there?

Priyanka Chopra: Well it is my first single, this is an entire album, which will come somewhere next year, because we have one single and then second one and hopefully the third one, whatever, but the label decides that. This song is called In My City. It features will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas and this is going to debut at NFL. This is going to have two videos, one will be my official video and the second one will be the NFL video, which will have me representing every team in the NFL, because it's the theme of NFL.

NFL is the National Football League. It's the Thursday night kick off and the numbers, when I first heard the numbers, of the kind of audience that NFL gets, I don't know anything about sports, so when I heard the numbers, like the Super Bowl last year had 120 million people watching it. Every Thursday NFL has about 60 million people who watch each game, so it's massive and I am really proud of being the first Indian to, you know, sort of get that kind of magnitude of a debut, and even the first new artist. It's never even happened for a first or new artist.

NDTV: So how will you manage? Do you think you will actually be the Indian artist who actually crossed over? You share the same agent as lady Gaga so that is huge.

Priyanka Chopra: Yes that is. I am really happy Troy came on board to manage me.

NDTV: How did that happen?

Priyanka Chopra: I don't know. I think it had to do with you know, all of this just kind of happened. Universal came to me one day and said they wanted to make an album taking an Indian star, singing star and break America because no pop music from the world has never been able to break India, because Bollywood is so entrenched in the music scene here, there has never been pop star in India.

We never had it. So they had this idea they wanted to do and I was like ya ya whatever. Sab log bolte rehte hai. I was very busy with Saat Khoon Maaf, right now being an actor and doing some 60-year old roles, so I ignored it for about two, three months. But they were very insistent, my team was very insistent. So finally did a meeting, we went into studio and I got signed up by Desi Hits and Universal.

I went to London and I did a little bit of recording and I had never sung professionally, I just kind of sing. I sung on stage once during Temptation if you ever see that video, it was funny, my first world tour. But after that I went and I went to America and Interscope was interested in signing up. So now and then RedOne, who is the producer of my album, who has done Lady Gaga's first album, who has done JLo and whole bunch of, he helped me with the music. I have written my music and this just kind of happened and Troy came on board wanting to be a part of this idea and he believed in it a lot more than even I did.

NDTV: So that's amazing and I think it's a huge challenge and to be super for India and I really feel if it happens for all Indian.

Priyanka Chopra: I hope so and I really do hope so. I hope to be able to pay tribute for so many talented people. You, the way I feel Sonia, pop music has representation from almost every part of the world, whether it's Shakira with Columbia, whether it's Latin America with Jennifer Lopez, whether it is Europe with David etc etc. India being such a musical nation we have never had that happen to us, it doesn't make sense.

I didn't think about it, of course, till I'd gone into it, not that I am saying that I am going to be the next pop icon from India, but if you think about it, it's strange and it should have happened long back. Because we are so talented, we have so much potential, we have music in our blood, we need a reason to sing and dance and my music is going to be like that, it's going to have a flavour of India for the world.

NDTV: We have got a next question from Lady Sri Ram College, let's go across to that.

LSR Questioner: Priyanka Chopra, I want to ask, like I have heard about your album coming out, which is your favourite song from the album and why you choose to bring out an album, even though you are a popular actress in Bollywood? And please do sing two lines from any of your album.

Priyanka Chopra: Oye, I can't sing right now.

NDTV: What? Priyanka, you are a pop singer now. It's like Bollywood actresses supposed dance to a movement in a studio, a few lines, you don't have to sing from your album, sing any song.

Priyanka Chopra: Arre no, no I can't sing like that. I get very shy. I am not mentally prepared for it yet right now. I have to be able to sing it in a studio.

NDTV: Don't look at the camera. You can sing peeche, you can sing just audio.

Priyanka Chopra: I will sing, I will be mentally prepared for it in a few weeks I will do it. You will hear me singing me soon, the next time I come to see you I promise I will

NDTV: Not even from Don, Barfi!, a song from Barfi!?

Priyanka Chopra: No, no you have to hear my voice first time when you hear it properly in my first single I want that, after that, after you guys have heard it, pakka, I will sing it. Why did I do music?

NDTV: At first you are at the top of your game, you don't have to do this. You are going into something completely new.

Priyanka Chopra: But then I don't have to do different films either, I don't have to do so many things in life, I don't have to join films because I was earlier Miss World. I didn't have to do Barfi!, when I was doing, when I had Don 2 and Agneepath. You don't have to do anything in life, but if you don't take challenges, you don't risk what you have, then where is the growth? And without growth life is so boring. You want to do different things you want to push the envelope, at least I am like that.

NDTV: No. And I think what's nice about it is really also the whole positive role model, because you are somebody whom did it right. You studied, you did your career, you've gone about it in a professional way and that's something which; I read this article you wrote recently which really struck, when you talked about the murder of a young woman in Mumbai, and how the impact will have on so many young working women. And it's interesting, if you also see yourself as a young, workingwoman, not as an actor who is kind of removed from the galaxy of life. Why did that murder actually move you?

Priyanka Chopra: Well more than anything because she worked in one of my films which was Don. She worked with excellence and I had met her and she was a striking girl, intelligent, smart, extremely, a woman of the world, independent, fearless in terms of what she did, confident, and to have something like that happen, for such a frivolous reason, it's scary. And it could have happened in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, any city in the world, but is that what workingwomen deserve? Is that what we are going to get, just because we want to make a mark of our name on the world? Just because we are women, we are girls, are we such easy targets? And as a society we can't allow that. It could happen to me, you, anybody, today. I lived alone when I came to Bombay, I was in a PG accommodation.

It could have happened to me, so many of us do when we move to different, different cities and it is about making ourselves secure, safe enough to make sure that; and even the society we live in needs to make sure of that. Girls need to be safe otherwise we will be a regressive country, and we have such a potential of being a super power as India, because we run, I literally feel that we, as Indians, run most of the other countries. If you take away Indians from them, they are not going to run, so why can't we do that for our country? And that will come from giving women who are independent, who are intelligent; who are multi-taskers in our nation, that kind of security and belief and support.

NDTV: You have always been independent in Bollywood, never been part of any camps and I am sure that must have been difficult for you, especially recently there were all those rumors about you, and allegations about, you know, Shah Rukh. And you then you had that back biting and again people reporting, newspapers were reporting that Karan Johar and you were in a fight. As a single person, as an independent person, did that hurt and how do you deal with it when you are actually not in a camp in a sense?

Priyanka Chopra: See I am somebody who is very loyal. I am somebody who knows who my friends are, and I keep them very close and, that's not too many people. It's a few people and that's how I would like to keep it. From the time I joined the film industry I didn't have camps, not because I didn't choose it, but because I didn't have a choice. I didn't have friends when I came into films. I just did the work I have got. Even today I do the work I get, I have never asked for work. I have never needed to ask for work, by God's grace, and I have never felt the need for it. I have just worked hard in whatever little opportunity, also even if it's a small film I will give my life for it, and that's how I feel.

Anybody can do this coming from a small town in Bareilly, Army school like you saw, to being here today. Anyone can. It's just about knowledge and having self-respect and that is most important. Today I can lash out at every newspaper, everything that is reported about me, oh she was like this, oh she did this or she did that, but that's only demeaning my truth. I know my truth. Today I can walk anywhere with my head held up because I know, I believe in what I do, I will stand by of the courage of conviction in everything that I have done so far, good, bad, ugly. How people see it, it does not matter. It's mine whether it's my mistake or whether it is my truth or whether it is my achievement. And I think if you have courage of conviction, no one can bring you down.

NDTV: Why is a single actress always the brunt of rumours? Nobody ever asks the actors about it, but you faced the brunt of it.

Priyanka Chopra: Male dominated society. It is that. You can't help it, a society. I am not saying film industry. It's a male dominated society. It's easy to point a finger at the single girl who is independent, who is earning her money, who is working every day. If I was a girl who was married, staying with my family, not working maybe, nobody would be able to lynch me.

But I have put myself out there by working the hours that I do, by travelling the way I do, and that's not looked upon correct maybe. Yes it is changing. I feel that I can be a role model because I believe in this. And I believe young girls need to have that kind of respect among themselves. Nothing is worth to do or die, nothing. The world is yours, you can put your finger on anything if you decide to make it happen it will happen, but you have to do it with self-confidence and self-respect. When you wake up in the morning you can say, I can live with my life and if you can do that, you can do anything.

NDTV: You never confirm or deny rumours, whether it is Shahid Kapoor, whether it is Shah Rukh Khan, why is that? Do you think in a world where everything is so public, public figures, now hardly have a private life any more? Why do you choose to keep silent?

Priyanka Chopra: Because as a public figure you know that a part of your life belongs to the public, they have the right to know what is going on in your life.

NDTV: You know people then assume that rumours are true then.

Priyanka Chopra: Whether they assume it or not, by me denying is not going to make it untrue. It just going to be another article, which will lead to another 20 articles. People are still going to believe what they want to believe. If I turn around and say, oh that's not true, or it is true, or I am going to do that, it will lead to few more pages of gossips. When I have something to say the world will know. Till now I don't.

NDTV: We talked about girls and I know one girl you are role model for, Parineeti Chopra. Parineeti Chopra joins us on the phone line. Parineeti, go ahead with your question for your cousin Priyanka.

Parineeti Chopra: Hi didi.

Priyanka Chopra: She doesn't call me that on the phone in Bombay and she is calling me it right know.

Parineeti Chopra: Hi. Everybody knows all your albums are coming out, all your films are coming out, you are at your highest high in your career, but in your personal life we all know, the family knows, that we are going through crisis in family health. But if anybody looks at you nobody will get to know that there are so many ups and downs in your life, because you don't let anybody see it. So I mean, I for one as an actress, as a family member, everybody wants to know, how do you remain so positive all the time? And you know I have asked you many times, even otherwise, but I want to know how is that you are always so, so, so normal and happy and enthusiastic all the time and there is never a low point?

Priyanka Chopra: You could have called me without the show and asked me, but I will say this to you, as my sister, and all young girls out there, that the world does not need to know your problems, nobody needs to see it .I don't believe washing my dirty linen in public, or whatever is happening in my home, it's my home to know, my family to know. When I walk out I carry the dignity of my family with me.

I carry that name, I carry being Priyanka. Chopra is not because somebody gave it to me, but being Priyanka Chopra is because my parents gave it to me, and how I conduct myself and how I behave reflects upon them. So whatever is happening in my life, whether I am sad or happy, when I leave the doors of my house I belong to the world, when I come back home then I am Mimi Didi.

NDTV: What's in fact, if you could just show this tattoo you have got, 'Daddy's little girl'. It's a wonderful tattoo and of course we heard that your father's is not being keeping well. Was this time just an expression of love for your father?

Priyanka Chopra: I don't know, yes it is an expression of love for my father, but I don't know if it is because he is been keeping unwell. We don't really talk about that too much to people, because he likes to keep it that way. But he is my inspiration, he always has been and I have always been Daddy's little girl. And this is actually my Dad's handwriting, I got him to write it and traced it and got a tattoo because then I will have a part of him, always.

But I have always been that. My Dad's resilience, his will, his belief in me, has taught me that nothing can break me. And if going through everything he has been going through has not broken him, then what am I to complain.

NDTV: And if you have your Daddy's little girl, you don't have to change it like some, who may have put a tattoo and then says oh my God, relationship is over, so that's great to have that.

Priyanka Chopra: Boyfriend's changed.

NDTV: Priyanka we are almost at the end of the show. It's really been wonderful to have you on, but tell me, you look backwards at the journey, but looking ahead what's the one thing Priyanka Chopra has left to do? What is Priyanka looking at and saying this is where I want to be 10 years from now?

Priyanka Chopra: You know, like I told you, for any girl the world is your oyster. I could be anything. I never thought of being a musician, I never thought I will be debuting in NFL, don't know about anything in America. I never thought I will be a movie star, I never thought I will be Miss World at 17, the youngest ever. I never thought any of these things. So you never know, I could be a doctor, know I could be a director, know I could be a, I don't know, know I could be anything I set my mind to right now. I am extremely consumed with my movie career, my music career, but you never know. 10 years from now, hopefully married, I will like to have kids, my ambition in life since I was 4 years old was always to be a bride, for fashion show, I mean not for fashion show, sorry, fancy dress shows in school when kids dress-up I used to always be dulhania.

NDTV: And look where you are now. Priyanka Chopra, everything you want will come true. Thank you so much Priyanka for joining us.

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