Priyanka Chopra: India's OG Desi Girl

A Miss World, an actor, a singer and now a mother... This is the story of Priyanka Chopra.

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00:00Treated differently because I'm brown. I was I had you know really racist behavior when I was in high school in 10th grade

00:07I was called brownie curry go back on the elephant you came on

00:23Came from a completely opposite

00:25Opposite nobody in my family ever knew anything about movies except in my dad knew movies because he was passionate about music

00:32But I came from a completely academic family of doctors

00:45So it was and I used to always ask I was like mom I'm an Indian girl, too

00:49Why are girls not why is there such a difference between the way you have raised me

00:54Where I've been told to have an opinion. I've been told I don't need to know how to cook

00:59I've been told that I can have whatever job I want and be successful at it if I have an aptitude

01:05Whereas these girls were being told that your life has been decided for you and being the daughters of the same country

01:12I saw that

01:18You

01:48You

02:18You

02:23It's not about the quality quantity it's about the quality

02:34I

02:36Don't cheat

02:45I love playing very different characters and my Indian films have played negative characters before and somehow I really enjoy them

02:52Which speaks a little bit about my personality?

03:07Which is moving

03:23I'm sorry

03:36I had to kind of you know, grasp onto things myself learn myself, you know teach myself everything. I think I started

03:43Enjoying myself just about

03:45Three years ago. I think before that I was just trying to understand what I'm doing here and understand how to do it, right?

04:06It's

04:10Exhausting but it's a choice that I've made I love both my careers. I love making music

04:36You

05:06You

05:36You

05:43All I am saying is we can't make the big change we are not going to be able to eradicate poverty

05:49we are not going to be able to bring this gap between the wealthy and the

05:54Less privileged together. We won't be able to do it, but we can work towards giving children and

06:00Opportunity to maybe get a fair start to maybe be able to go to a school