Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has been featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list.
She is featured alongside Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
Priyanka lately has gained popularity in the West after she starred in American TV series Quantico and made a debut at the Oscars this year.
She has also shot for the popular American series Baywatch alongside co-star Dwayne Johnson.
Apart from Priyanka, other Indians included in the list are tennis ace Sania Mirza, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan.
In an interview with TIME, Chopra explained that as a young actress, she was treated as a dime a dozen. “When I was very young, I was 19 and I was doing the first few movies, I remember that my dates weren’t working out. My scheduling wasn’t working out for a movie with a very big actor. And the producer said, ‘Well, she can’t work it out, it’s fine, we’ll just cast someone else. Or, you know what? I’ll launch a new girl because girls are replaceable.’ I didn’t understand it then. But I think subconsciously it really worked on my mind, and I started picking up parts which were strong, which were not just the damsel in distress waiting for someone to rescue me. As much as I like being rescued. Every girl does … Now 13, 15 years later, whatever, I think that the movies that I do, I’m irreplaceable and the boys are replaceable.”
"I want to be known as someone who has goals and achieves them..I want to be Limitless"- @priyankachopra #TIME100https://t.co/fnOeNvYD5o — Priyanka Chopra FC (@PriyankaDaily) April 21, 2016
Congratulatory messages from the fraternity poured in after the cover of the magazine featuring her was released.
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