Prahlad Kakkar calls Priyanka Chopra 'very ambitious & focused' person: 'She has a certain sense of dignity which...'

In a recent interview, veteran ad filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar talked about actress Priyanka Chopra and had a lot of great things to say about her.

Kakkar was quoted saying, “Priyanka is a doll, she’s a great person to work with. She’s very ambitious, she’s very single-minded, she’s very focused. And she has a certain sense of dignity which she will not allow people to enter. So, her whole, this whole so-called affair, she never made a comment on it.”

He added, “Everybody else was commenting. She never said anything. She held her dignity. And if it was a frivolous relationship, she would have laughed. Obviously, it was serious. So, it was very personal to her. She didn’t want it to be written about, she didn’t want to be talked about it.”

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On Priyanka Chopra’s disadvantages

Kakkar said, “Priyanka had huge disadvantages at that time. First, she was dark. Second, she had a bad skin. And she still does. Okay, so her skin had to be actually made up and covered. And then she was a strong-looking girl. She lost a lot of weight to look like the way she did in Dostana. She looked like a million dollars in Dostana. I mean, there’s no question about it. She had to work damn hard at it because she’s not a delicate-looking girl. She’s a big-boned girl. So you don’t, you’re not just losing weight on your flesh. You’re also having to deal with a skeleton.”

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the Desi Girl of Bollywood and a global icon, once opened up about a distressing encounter with a director when she was just 19 years of age.

“I was speaking to the director and I said, would you speak to my stylist and just explain to him what you want in terms of clothes and stuff. I’m standing right next to him,"  Priyanka said while speaking at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit.