In 2007, Chopra was on the judges' panel of the Miss India pageant. She stated, "Miss India will always remain special. That's where it all started for me. And maybe that's where it would've ended if I hadn't won the crown. She also served as a judge at Miss World 2009. In 2010, she hosted the third season of the reality show Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on the Colors channel, taking over from previous host Akshay KumarAccording to contestants, in hosting the series, Chopra had
"transformed into quite a whip-wielding dictator", relentlessly pushing the contestants to work. She performed most of her own stunts, adamant to prove that she could rival Akshay Kumar, who had hosted the previous two seasonsThe opening ratings of the show topped those of the two previous seasons.The show was praised by critics, and earned her the Indian Telly Award for Most Impactful Debut on Television She visited Jawan troops in Tenga, in eastern India, for a special episode of the NDTV show Jai Jawan celebrating the 60th anniversary of India's independenceIn February 2016, Chopra presented the award for Best Film Editing at the 88th Academy Awards
Chopra has participated in a number of world tours and concerts. She took part in a world concert tour, "Temptations 2004", and performed with other Bollywood actors (including Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal) in 19 stage shows. In 2011, she participated (with Shahid Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan) in a concert in Durban, South Africa celebrating 150 years of India–South Africa friendship.In 2012, she performed at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai in the opening ceremony of the fifth season of cricket's Indian Premier League with Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Katy Perry.The same year, she performed at Dubai Festival City's Ahlan Bollywood Concert with other Bollywood stars such as Salman Khan and Sophie Choudry
Column writing
Chopra began writing an opinion column, "The Priyanka Chopra Column", for the Hindustan Times in 2009. She wrote a total of fifty columns for the newspaper. She said after her first year of writing: "I'm a private person and never thought that I could express my feelings. But strangely enough, whenever I sat down to write this column, my inner most thoughts came to the fore.In March 2009, she met several readers who had submitted feedback on her weekly columnShe continued to write sporadically for newspapers.
In August 2012 she wrote a column published in The Times of India titled "No woman in Mumbai feels safe any longer", discussing the murder of 25-year-old Pallavi Purkayastha whom she met while working on Don.In the article, Chopra expressed her views about the safety of women in cities. She wrote: "The magnitude of this crime can perhaps only truly be understood by a woman. It has much larger ramifications. We can't allow this to happen. We have to, in whichever way we can, ensure that what happened with Pallavi does not happen again. We need to remind ourselves that we women today are a vital contributor to the growth of the new India
In a July 2014 article published in The Guardian, she criticised female genital mutilation and child marriage. She wrote: "These practices violate the fundamental rights of girls and women, and hold back social and economic development that would benefit children, communities and countries. Child marriage and FGM destroy childhoods, disrupt schooling, leave girls at higher risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes, and contribute to a cycle of poverty.In December 2014, Chopra wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled
"What Jane Austen Knew" about the importance of education for girls. She praised and quoted Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, and described how her desire to help others was triggered when, at just nine years old, she joined her parents while they volunteered their spare time to offer modern health care to the rural poorIn late 2014, Chopra began writing a monthly column, "Pret-a-Priyanka", for "Elle.com". In an article published in January 2015, she expressed her views on diversity and being a global citizen
Chopra has been described by the critics as one of the most talented actresses in Bollywood. Analysing Chopra's career highlights, Bollywood Hungama noted: "Despite a career that has seen a constant flip-flop the performer in her has seen a constant growth with every passing year. After playing strong characters in a series of films, she gained recognition for her versatility in portraying a range of unconventional roles, leading CNN-IBN to describe her "as one of the most powerful actresses in the current lot and someone who doesn't shy away from experimenting with roles within the realms of popular cinemaThe Times of India called her a
"game changer" and added that she "made the age-old demarcation between a hero and heroine redundant and one can easily describe her as a SheroIn 2012, film critic Subhash K. Jha labelled her "the best actress in the post-Sridevi generation" and listed her character in Barfi! as being "one of the finest inwardly ravaged characters in Bollywood. Chopra has often featured on Rediff.com's annual listing of "Bollywood's Best Actresses", and was featured in their list of "Top 10 Actresses of 2000–2010"
Chopra is one of the highest-paid actresses in India and the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India She is described as a sex symbol and a style icon.Her figure, eyes, lips and exotic looks have been cited by the media as her distinctive physical features Designers Falguni and Shane Peacock wrote, "She is comfortable in her own skin and looks ravishing in whatever she wears, be it a bikini, short or long dress or even a sari. She ranks high on lists of the most influential, powerful, popular and attractive Indian celebrities. In 2006, 2012, 2014 and 2015, the UK magazine Eastern Eye ranked her first on their "World's Sexiest Asian Women"
list and she was featured on Verve's list of most powerful women in 2009 and 2010. She was named "India's Best-Dressed Woman of the Year" by People in 2011, and Maxim selected her twice (2011 and 2013) as "Hottest Girl of the Year". In 2012, she was declared the most influential Indian on the social-media circuit in a survey conducted by Pinstorm. In 2015, People featured her as one of the "Most Intriguing People of the Year". In 2016, Time named her one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" and also featured on the cover of the issueThe same year, Forbes named her the eight-highest-paid TV actress in the world.
Chopra was declared queen of brand endorsements in India, ranking second in on the list of brand ambassadors of 2008 (only after Shah Rukh Khan) in a survey conducted by TAM AdExThe following year, she was named "India's top brand endorser" by the same agency, becoming the first woman to top the endorsement charts in India.Manish Porwal of Alchemist Talent Solutions said in 2012 that Chopra was a stable and dependable brand endorser,
and many brands renewed their contract with her. Chopra has represented many brands, including TAG Heuer, Pepsi, Nokia, Garnier and Nestlé; she was the first female representative of Hero Honda. She and three other Bollywood actors (Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Hrithik Roshan) had their likenesses made into a series of miniature dolls for Hasbro and the UK-based Bollywood Legends Corporation.In 2009, Chopra became the first Indian actress to cast a foot impression at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy, and she received custom-designed shoes from the Ferragamo house.
In 2013, she became the first Indian model to represent Guess, whose CEO Paul Marciano called her "the young Sophia Loren"The actress became the first Indian actress to feature in a school textbook. Her life is described in a chapter of Roving Families, Shifting Homes, a book taught at Springdales School. The book also includes pictures of her family and the moment she was crowned Miss World in 2000.
Chopra is particularly known in the Indian media and film industry for her professionalism and is often referred to as "Piggy Chops", a nickname given her by co-stars on the set of Bluffmaster! in 2005She is popularly referred to by the media and the film industry as "PeeCee" or simply "PC" Although she is known for her media-friendly attitude, Chopra is reticent to discuss details of her personal life in public. She has had a Twitter account since January 2009, and is one of the most followed Indian actresses on the platform. In 2015, Chopra appeared in The Huffington Post's "100 Most Influential Women on Twitter" list, where she was named the most influential Indian woman on Twitter.
Accolades
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra
Chopra has won a National Film Award for Best Actress for Fashion (2008)and five Filmfare Awards: Best Female Debut for Andaaz (2003), Best Performance in a Negative Role for Aitraaz (2004), Best Actress for Fashion(2008), Critics Award for Best Actress for 7 Khoon Maaf (2011), and Best Supporting Actress for Bajirao Mastani (2015). She has also won two People's Choice Awards: "Favourite Actress In A New TV Series", and "Favorite Dramatic TV Actress" for Quantico.She is the first South Asian actress to win a People's Choice Award.In 2016, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for her contribution to arts
Discography
As lead artist
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
CAN
US
Dance Club
US
Dance Elec
"In My City"
(featuring will.i.am) 2012 — — —
IMI: 3× Platinum
"Exotic"
(featuring Pitbull) 2013
"I Can't Make You Love Me" 2014 — — 28
As featured artist
Title Year Album
"Erase"
(The Chainsmokers featuring Priyanka Chopra) 2012 N/A
Meltdown
(N.A.S.A. featuring Priyanka Chopra & DMX) 2015 N/A
Other appearances
Track Year Album Language
"Ullathai Killathe" 2002 Thamizhan Tamil
"Saajan Saajan" 2005 Barsaat Hindi
"Imagine" 2014 Unicef #IMAGINE project English
"Chaoro (Lori)" Mary Kom Hindi (Lullaby)
"Dil Dhadakne Do" 2015 Dil Dhadakne Do Hindi
"Need U"(Conversation with Priyanka Chopra) 2016 Hard II Love English
"Baba" Ventilator Marathi
"transformed into quite a whip-wielding dictator", relentlessly pushing the contestants to work. She performed most of her own stunts, adamant to prove that she could rival Akshay Kumar, who had hosted the previous two seasonsThe opening ratings of the show topped those of the two previous seasons.The show was praised by critics, and earned her the Indian Telly Award for Most Impactful Debut on Television She visited Jawan troops in Tenga, in eastern India, for a special episode of the NDTV show Jai Jawan celebrating the 60th anniversary of India's independenceIn February 2016, Chopra presented the award for Best Film Editing at the 88th Academy Awards
Chopra has participated in a number of world tours and concerts. She took part in a world concert tour, "Temptations 2004", and performed with other Bollywood actors (including Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal) in 19 stage shows. In 2011, she participated (with Shahid Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan) in a concert in Durban, South Africa celebrating 150 years of India–South Africa friendship.In 2012, she performed at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai in the opening ceremony of the fifth season of cricket's Indian Premier League with Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Katy Perry.The same year, she performed at Dubai Festival City's Ahlan Bollywood Concert with other Bollywood stars such as Salman Khan and Sophie Choudry
Column writing
Chopra began writing an opinion column, "The Priyanka Chopra Column", for the Hindustan Times in 2009. She wrote a total of fifty columns for the newspaper. She said after her first year of writing: "I'm a private person and never thought that I could express my feelings. But strangely enough, whenever I sat down to write this column, my inner most thoughts came to the fore.In March 2009, she met several readers who had submitted feedback on her weekly columnShe continued to write sporadically for newspapers.
In August 2012 she wrote a column published in The Times of India titled "No woman in Mumbai feels safe any longer", discussing the murder of 25-year-old Pallavi Purkayastha whom she met while working on Don.In the article, Chopra expressed her views about the safety of women in cities. She wrote: "The magnitude of this crime can perhaps only truly be understood by a woman. It has much larger ramifications. We can't allow this to happen. We have to, in whichever way we can, ensure that what happened with Pallavi does not happen again. We need to remind ourselves that we women today are a vital contributor to the growth of the new India
In a July 2014 article published in The Guardian, she criticised female genital mutilation and child marriage. She wrote: "These practices violate the fundamental rights of girls and women, and hold back social and economic development that would benefit children, communities and countries. Child marriage and FGM destroy childhoods, disrupt schooling, leave girls at higher risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes, and contribute to a cycle of poverty.In December 2014, Chopra wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled
"What Jane Austen Knew" about the importance of education for girls. She praised and quoted Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, and described how her desire to help others was triggered when, at just nine years old, she joined her parents while they volunteered their spare time to offer modern health care to the rural poorIn late 2014, Chopra began writing a monthly column, "Pret-a-Priyanka", for "Elle.com". In an article published in January 2015, she expressed her views on diversity and being a global citizen
Chopra has been described by the critics as one of the most talented actresses in Bollywood. Analysing Chopra's career highlights, Bollywood Hungama noted: "Despite a career that has seen a constant flip-flop the performer in her has seen a constant growth with every passing year. After playing strong characters in a series of films, she gained recognition for her versatility in portraying a range of unconventional roles, leading CNN-IBN to describe her "as one of the most powerful actresses in the current lot and someone who doesn't shy away from experimenting with roles within the realms of popular cinemaThe Times of India called her a
"game changer" and added that she "made the age-old demarcation between a hero and heroine redundant and one can easily describe her as a SheroIn 2012, film critic Subhash K. Jha labelled her "the best actress in the post-Sridevi generation" and listed her character in Barfi! as being "one of the finest inwardly ravaged characters in Bollywood. Chopra has often featured on Rediff.com's annual listing of "Bollywood's Best Actresses", and was featured in their list of "Top 10 Actresses of 2000–2010"
Chopra is one of the highest-paid actresses in India and the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India She is described as a sex symbol and a style icon.Her figure, eyes, lips and exotic looks have been cited by the media as her distinctive physical features Designers Falguni and Shane Peacock wrote, "She is comfortable in her own skin and looks ravishing in whatever she wears, be it a bikini, short or long dress or even a sari. She ranks high on lists of the most influential, powerful, popular and attractive Indian celebrities. In 2006, 2012, 2014 and 2015, the UK magazine Eastern Eye ranked her first on their "World's Sexiest Asian Women"
list and she was featured on Verve's list of most powerful women in 2009 and 2010. She was named "India's Best-Dressed Woman of the Year" by People in 2011, and Maxim selected her twice (2011 and 2013) as "Hottest Girl of the Year". In 2012, she was declared the most influential Indian on the social-media circuit in a survey conducted by Pinstorm. In 2015, People featured her as one of the "Most Intriguing People of the Year". In 2016, Time named her one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" and also featured on the cover of the issueThe same year, Forbes named her the eight-highest-paid TV actress in the world.
Chopra was declared queen of brand endorsements in India, ranking second in on the list of brand ambassadors of 2008 (only after Shah Rukh Khan) in a survey conducted by TAM AdExThe following year, she was named "India's top brand endorser" by the same agency, becoming the first woman to top the endorsement charts in India.Manish Porwal of Alchemist Talent Solutions said in 2012 that Chopra was a stable and dependable brand endorser,
and many brands renewed their contract with her. Chopra has represented many brands, including TAG Heuer, Pepsi, Nokia, Garnier and Nestlé; she was the first female representative of Hero Honda. She and three other Bollywood actors (Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Hrithik Roshan) had their likenesses made into a series of miniature dolls for Hasbro and the UK-based Bollywood Legends Corporation.In 2009, Chopra became the first Indian actress to cast a foot impression at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy, and she received custom-designed shoes from the Ferragamo house.
In 2013, she became the first Indian model to represent Guess, whose CEO Paul Marciano called her "the young Sophia Loren"The actress became the first Indian actress to feature in a school textbook. Her life is described in a chapter of Roving Families, Shifting Homes, a book taught at Springdales School. The book also includes pictures of her family and the moment she was crowned Miss World in 2000.
Chopra is particularly known in the Indian media and film industry for her professionalism and is often referred to as "Piggy Chops", a nickname given her by co-stars on the set of Bluffmaster! in 2005She is popularly referred to by the media and the film industry as "PeeCee" or simply "PC" Although she is known for her media-friendly attitude, Chopra is reticent to discuss details of her personal life in public. She has had a Twitter account since January 2009, and is one of the most followed Indian actresses on the platform. In 2015, Chopra appeared in The Huffington Post's "100 Most Influential Women on Twitter" list, where she was named the most influential Indian woman on Twitter.
Accolades
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra
Chopra has won a National Film Award for Best Actress for Fashion (2008)and five Filmfare Awards: Best Female Debut for Andaaz (2003), Best Performance in a Negative Role for Aitraaz (2004), Best Actress for Fashion(2008), Critics Award for Best Actress for 7 Khoon Maaf (2011), and Best Supporting Actress for Bajirao Mastani (2015). She has also won two People's Choice Awards: "Favourite Actress In A New TV Series", and "Favorite Dramatic TV Actress" for Quantico.She is the first South Asian actress to win a People's Choice Award.In 2016, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for her contribution to arts
Discography
As lead artist
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
CAN
US
Dance Club
US
Dance Elec
"In My City"
(featuring will.i.am) 2012 — — —
IMI: 3× Platinum
"Exotic"
(featuring Pitbull) 2013
"I Can't Make You Love Me" 2014 — — 28
As featured artist
Title Year Album
"Erase"
(The Chainsmokers featuring Priyanka Chopra) 2012 N/A
Meltdown
(N.A.S.A. featuring Priyanka Chopra & DMX) 2015 N/A
Other appearances
Track Year Album Language
"Ullathai Killathe" 2002 Thamizhan Tamil
"Saajan Saajan" 2005 Barsaat Hindi
"Imagine" 2014 Unicef #IMAGINE project English
"Chaoro (Lori)" Mary Kom Hindi (Lullaby)
"Dil Dhadakne Do" 2015 Dil Dhadakne Do Hindi
"Need U"(Conversation with Priyanka Chopra) 2016 Hard II Love English
"Baba" Ventilator Marathi
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