Priyanka Chopra: 'She was not going to be another pretty girl'
Indian actor cracked US film industry by showing a willingness to take risks to avoid being pigeonholed
It could have been any celebrity wedding: a former boyband star and an actor married in a lavish ceremony. There was a dedicated hashtag on Instagram. People Magazine scored the exclusive pictures.
But this was India’s Rajasthan state, the bride was Priyanka Chopra, and during the five-day ceremony the groom, Nick Jonas, draped her in a mangalsutra – a traditional Hindu necklace she will wear until her husband’s death.
The publicity blitz around “Nickyanka’s” nuptials has confirmed Chopra, 36, as the most successful Indian ever to make the leap from Bollywood star to American celebrity.
In trying to crack the American market, Chopra followed in the footsteps of another former Miss World, Aishwarya
