Priyanka Chopra called Fashion her ‘career defining’ film, was told she wouldn’t get another job if it failed: ‘For the first time…’

Priyanka said that at the time, she had a magazine cover where they had written ‘Finished’ on her face and her mother was starting to get worried for her. Speaking about Fashion, she said that she made this movie as a collaboration with director Madhur Bhandarkar and shared that this film changed how she worked. “For the first time, I felt like I had agency in what I was doing and that really changed how I worked after that,” she said.

In another chat with YouTuber Prajakta Koli, Priyanka had shared that “it took a lot of fighting” to make a “smaller film” like Fashion because it relying solely on her shoulders. “When I did Fashion, so many people told me that heroines do these films at the end of their career, when they want a National Award. Heroines take the responsibility of a film when they are the end of their career because they are not getting any work with men,” she said. Priyanka recalled that “everyone told me that I wouldn’t get another job if this film fails” but she did it anyway.

Fashion had Priyanka Chopra playing the role of an aspiring model Meghna Mathur who gets to Mumbai and breaks through as a successful model. Through her rise to the top, Meghna’s character starts compromising on her morality and her fight to get back to her roots forms the rest of the story.