Published 12:28 IST, February 17th 2021
DYK Priyanka Chopra Jonas almost played 'Umraao Jaan' instead of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan?
Priyanka Chopra Jonas almost played the titular character of Umraao Jaan in J.P Dutta's retelling of the classic. Read on to know what happened.
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It has been over fourteen years since release of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Umraao Jaan. film, which was once considered to be one of J.P Dutta's magnum opuses, is still talked about to this day as a result of its songs, individual performances and set designs. But, did you kw that at one point in time, Priyanka Chopra (Who is w Priyanka Chopra Jonas) who was going to be seen playing film's central character? That very episode is being revisited through this article.
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time when Priyanka Chopra Jonas almost played Umraao Jaan:
A well-kwn reporter who goes by name of Subhash K Jha, quite recently, through an article on SpotBoyE, spoke about time when Priyanka Chopra almost played iconic part in J.P Dutta's retelling of film. While expanding on same, journalist was also seen revealing that as soon as she got news of her casting, she slipped into an intense preparation mode as she started to re up on time period that Umraao Jaan was based in and h started taking Kathak lessons for dance sequence. But, as per report, before she could even see set of film on first day of shooting, makers of Umraao Jaan cast Aishwarya Rai Bachchan inste. final parts of report written by journalist saw him recounting time when Priyanka received news and was thoroughly disappointed because of it, which was followed by a call from ne or than Priyanka Chopra's w late far to journalist, who wanted to kw reason behind J.P Dutta's sudden change of heart. This is a question that Subhash K Jha h answer for. very final section of report saw Jha implying that scores were eventually settled as Priyanka Chopra replaced Umraao Jaan star in Rohan Sippy's Pocket Maar, a film which was renamed Bluffmaster! later on.
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About Priyanka Chopra's movies:
Priyanka Chopra's debut movie was Sunny Deol-starrer Hero: Love Story Of A Spy, a film that saw her play character of Shaheen Zakaria. Since n, she has gone on to work with a myri of Bollywood A-listers right up until time she landed character of Alex Parrish on ABC Network's Thriller/Drama series, Quantico, which aired from 2015 to 2018. As far as recent slate of Priyanka Chopra's movies is concerned, she was last seen in White Tiger and We Can Be Heroes, both of which are Netflix original films. More details regarding her future projects will be revealed as and when y are me available.
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12:28 IST, February 17th 2021