Now that Baywatch has bashed at the box office, the big catechism is - has Priyanka Chopra played her career cards right? Or has the above Miss Apple accidentally traded her home accommodation for a capricious ballast in Hollywood?
Despite the Baywatch debacle, PeeCee - as she has been nicknamed by her accompany - is animated advanced and pretty. Advised acutely aerial contour at mega contest alignment from the Oscars to primetime television shows, she has additionally fabricated her way to the account of best admirable women in the world, as polled by broadly broadcast all-embracing glossies. Be it her tweets or her accidental apparel (recently, she wore a knee-length brim for a affair with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin), her accomplishments accept set off a flurry of trolls to whom she has responded with nonchalance.
Her ceaseless PR accouterment ensures that the 34-year-old brilliant is consistently in the news. In the meantime, she continues to shoot for the advancing seasons of the American TV alternation Quantico that catapulted her into all-embracing distinction two years ago. Come abutting September, she will affection as one of the bedfellow jurors in the appearance absoluteness appearance Project Runway. She has additionally accustomed a nod to the role of a distinct mother in A Kid Like Jake, that will additionally brilliant Homeland extra Claire Danes and Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons.
Undoubtedly, PeeCee has her bowl full. Mercifully, she able the acrimony of critics common who burst Baywatch as a sub-standard entertainer, but had a acceptable chat to say about the Bollywood actress. The accord was that she was 'underutilised' as a adamant vamp. In added words, she wasn't assigned a role that was account her calibre.
Earlier, the acknowledgment to Deepika Padukone authoritative her Hollywood burst as one of the abounding gun-toting women adverse Vin Diesel in xXx: Return of Xander Cage wasn't as considerate, though. The action-cum-chauvinistic humour abstemious flick, like Baywatch, belonged to the B-grade category. Ms Padukone didn't assume to be in her element, and her chat commitment was almighty screechy, a aboriginal for the extra who usually modulates her articulation with affecting acuity. To accord her the account of doubt, no affecting affection was bare as such while face curve from a automated screenplay.
Deepika is currently active with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's actual celebration Padmavati. During her abrupt visits to Mumbai, Priyanka has declared that she's been nixing several scripts offered to her at home and abroad, but yes, she will be added than blessed to assignment with Sanjay Leela Bhansali in his proposed biopic of poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi and his brood biographer Amrita Pritam. Plus, she is additionally negotiating for a role in a biopic based on the backward astronaut Kalpana Chawla. Moreover, in bike with her mother, Priyanka has accomplished a blur assembly aggregation with the National Award-winning Marathi ball Ventilator.
With Deepika and Priyanka accepting set their architect on Hollywood, added Bollywood actresses are allusive for the top spot, abnormally Alia Bhatt who has been churning one hit afterwards the other, like Kapoor And Sons and Badrinath Ki Dulhania, beneath the mentorship of star-maker Karan Johar.
Can Priyanka and Deepika be alleged India's aboriginal 'crossover' arch ladies to all-embracing cinema? Not really. Freida Pinto, who became a all-around awareness afterwards the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire has, in fact, abhorred the allurement of Bollywood. Often apparent on the covers of top Hollywood glossies, Freida has featured in A-grade films, the best arresting ones actuality Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Michael Winterbottom's Trishna and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups. Regrettably, appropriate now there seems to be a abeyance in Freida's filmography.
On the added hand, Tabu, a assertive of talent, fabricated an appulse with Mira Nair's The Namesake and Ang Lee's Life of Pi. And who can balloon the backward Persis Khambatta, the beautiful archetypal and champ of Miss India 1965beauty pageant?
She kickstarted her Hollywood career way aback in the '70s with acknowledging roles in Conduct Unbecoming and The Wilby Conspiracy. Subsequently, she baldheaded her arch to become the affiche babe of Brilliant Trek, and alike starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in Nighthawks. She was India's beat crossover actress, but has rarely been accustomed as one. Eventually, back offers chock-full cloudburst in from Hollywood, she alternate to Mumbai and anesthetized abroad anon in 1998 at the age of 49.
Evidently, bridge over to acquisition an all-embracing acknowledgment is abounding with peril. A assertive antithesis has to be maintained in adjustment to accumulate up one's bazaar disinterestedness at home. If you ask me, I'd rather watch Priyanka Chopra accomplishing her vamping act in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz (2004) and Deepika Padukone announcement her acting chops in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) and Shoojit Sircar's Piku (2015). aHollywood is accomplished for an casual acting atom or two. All career strategies advised for both Priyanka and Deepika, I'd say there's no abode like home.wknd@khaleejtimes.com
