Vivek Agnihotri says Priyanka Chopra defeated ‘gang of bullies’ in Bollywood, became a ‘real star’: ‘Some have lost life too’

Priyanka Chopra, without taking any names, said she faced opposition in the Hindi film industry as people stopped casting her in the movies, forcing her to eventually go to the West.

By: Entertainment Desk

Mumbai | Updated: March 28, 2023 03:21 PM IST

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Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has shared what he feels about Priyanka Chopra's journey of fighting bullies. (Photo: PTI, Priyanka Chopra/Instagram)

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Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday praised Priyanka Chopra for not giving in to the “gang of bullies” in the Hindi film industry after the actor opened up about moving to the US because she felt “cornered” in Bollywood. In a recent interview, Priyanka, without taking any names, said she faced opposition in the Hindi film industry as people stopped casting her in the movies, forcing her to eventually go to the West.

Agnihotri took to Twitter, shared her interview and wrote that when “big bullies” harass, some people “kneel down, some surrender, some take drugs”. The filmmaker also claimed that some people have also lost their lives to the bullying. Against the “impossible to defeat gang of bullies,” Agnihotri claimed, very few have stood firm on their ground and mounted a success story. “Those are the real life stars,” he added.

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Speaking with Dax Shepherd on his podcast Armchair Expert, Priyanka Chopra shared that she was being “cornered” in Bollywood and also had some “beef” with people in the industry. It was at that time that her manager Anjula Acharia came to her rescue. Acharia saw her in a music video and called her to ask if she would be interested in building a career in music in the US.

“I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break. This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I didn’t want to get but I would require to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people. It would require groveling and I had worked a long time by then that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do it,” she said in the interview.

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Actor Kangana Ranaut also shared Priyanka’s interview and claimed filmmaker Karan Johar “banned” her in the Hindi film industry and accused the filmmaker for “harassing vulnerable outsiders”

“This obnoxious, jealous, mean and toxic person should be held accountable for ruining the culture and environment of film industry which was never hostile to outsiders in the days of AB or SRK.His gang and mafia PR should be raided and held accountable for harassing outsiders,” a part of Kangana’s tweet read.

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