Priyanka Chopra The Incredible Story of a Global Bollywood Star by Aseem Chhabra: Book Review

Title: Priyanka Chopra (Biography)

Author: Aseem Chhabra

Publisher: Rupa Publishers

Publication Date: 20^th July 2018

My Rating: 4 stars

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I was very much excited to read this book, not the reason being that I’m her ardent follower on all her social media handles but that I was so desirous to know the journey of The Unstoppable Priyanka and how she ended up among the hundred most influential people by Time Magazine in 2016.

Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible story of a global Bollywood star is an unapproved biography that is Priyanka herself has not contributed to it and this fact has been very well admitted by the author in the book.

The book onsets with Priyanka’s life in Bareilly and schooling days in Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City. Then her years as a beauty pageant for Miss World title. Afterward, the book includes the amusing account of her acting career, her films and how and when she started getting all the recognition and attention. Later, bits of information on trying her hands on production as well.

The part of the book where Priyanka’s Hollywood crossover is narrated by the author kept me so much absorbed that I didn’t stop reading that part until I’m done. Moreover, this part of the book is well researched giving out all the intriguing stories that as her keen follower we always wanted to know. I loved to read the account of how she bagged the Quantico project and how her singing sensation got the requisite boost. I must say this part of the book was gripping and compelling along with the author’s imposing narrative.

The book includes quite fascinating stories and Priyanka’s sketch from point of view of other interviewees which were interviewed by the author. The interviewees include Anjula Acharya, Sharbari Zohra Ahmed, Madhur Bhandarkar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Karan Johar, Dia Mirza etc.

Well, it’s satisfying to read all the tales of one of your admired personality all fitted into one book.

The book is a delightful read and one not to be missed for Priyanka’s followers.

 

What wasn’t Good

While reading a few chapters, I felt that the things have just been mere documented and there was nothing more than compilations.

Well, it’s an unauthorized biography so the touch of Priyanka would obviously be missing but somehow incorporating few not so known recitals may have made the book a complete five star read.

 

Have you happened to read this book? or thinking of it lately?

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-Harshita