Priyanka Chopra

Bio:
Priyanka Chopra was born on July 18th 1982. She was the first born girl of Dr. Madhu Chopra and Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra. She has one younger brother. Her father is Punjabi speaking and her mother is from Bihar.
She was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, but also spent some of her childhood in Rae Barreilly, in Utter Pradesh and also in Lucknow where she attended La Martiniere Girl’s School.
These relocations took place due to her father’s position as a doctor in the Indian Army. She even lived in the U.S. for a little while in places like Massachusetts and Iowa.
Priyanka Chopra returned to India in 2000 and started attending Jai Hind College and Basant Singh Institute of Science in Churchgate, Bombay. She left the school abruptly after winning the Miss India contest. She went on to win Miss World in the same year.
Coincidentally this was a big year for Indian beauty queens with Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza winning Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific.
After Priyanka Chopra’s reign as beauty queen ended, she ventured into movies and appeared in the Tamil language film ‘Thamizhan’.
Her first Bollywood role was in 2002’s ‘The Hero’. She went on to act in over 28 movies including ‘Andaaz’, ’Aitraaz’, ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’, and ‘Krrish’. She has won 11 awards for her performances in these films.
In 2007 Priyanka Chopra appeared in ‘Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love’ which failed to succeed at the box office.
Other films she appeared in like ‘Big Brother’,’ Love Story 2050’, ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ and ‘Drona’ were also considered flops. However her most recent roles in ‘Fashion’ and ‘Dostana’ have done well at the box office and earned her critical acclaim reviving her status.
There’s no denying that Bollywood superstar, Priyanka Chopra is quite the looker. Aside from being a former beauty queen, Miss Chopra is also well known for her modeling career. However, Priyanka is more than a mere pretty face. The actress is socially aware and draws attention to issues such as, education, female infanticide and feticide.
In a recent interview with an established media portal in Mumbai, Priyanka shared her concerns on these issues. Priyanka told the outlet, “I feel strongly about many things but the most important are educating the girl child and female infanticide and feticide.” Chopra then went into the importance of educating girls and how by doing so women can raise better families, which will result in a better society. Priyanka spoke about how she is shocked that in this day and age she still knows of affluent families who partake in female feticide.
Chopra went on to speak on other issues that she strongly believes should be addressed such as Thalassemia. Priyanka mentioned, “Much is being done about cancer and AIDS which is fine and needed as well but I don’t see much happening for Thalassemic children in this part of the world.” Thalassemia is a genetic disease that causes your body to not make enough hemoglobin (the protein that carries oxygen through the body) levels in the blood stream resulting in mild to severe anemia. The disease mainly effects people of Mediterranean or Asian heritage.
So now that makes us wonder how Priyanka is playing her part to improve society. Well when asked if she is currently doing something to help out, Priyanka replied by saying, “Yes, I am and since things are just about starting to take shape I prefer not to talk about it at this point in time.” Well it will be interesting to see what Priyanka Chopra does in the future to support these causes. In the mean time it’s good to hear how socially conscious the young star is. How do you feel about Priyanka Chopra’s thoughts on these issues? Drop your comments below.