Priyanka Chopra: Actor Priyanka Chopra sparked a controversy when she shared in an interview how she was sidelined in Bollywood and lightened up because of her dusky skin. In the same interview on the podcast channel Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Priyanka also spoke about RRR and referred to it as a Tamil film. She was correcting Dax as he called RRR a Bollywood film. This sent users in a tizzy as they reacted to Priyanka’s blunder of calling RRR a Tamil film when it was originally made in Telugu.
Someone pointed out the mistake and soon it created an uproar on Twitter. Users shared their opinion on the comment.
Priyanka in conversation with Dax
In the interview, Dax compared Bollywood to the 50s of Hollywood when a few stars and big studios controlled everything. Priyanka agreed and said, “I don’t think you are far from it. I think that was what it was… big studios, five actors… big movies will be made by them; but the game is changed so much now. First of all, it’s streaming. It has given access to so many people who are making content.”
She further said that Bollywood has evolved, to which Dax interrupted and mentioned RRR. Priyanka quickly corrected him, “That’s a Tamil movie by the way. It’s like big, mega, blockbuster Tamil which does all of those… it’s like our Avengers.”
Could have done some research
Twitter users got upset over PeeCee calling RRR a Tamil film. One user tagged Priyanka in a tweet and wrote, “Lost all respect.” Another said, “IDK what’s the context. She could have done some research before mentioning but could have just (said) Indian film. This south vs south, north vs south is getting too much these days .. Feels like stan Twitter fan wars.”
One more user said, “This sums up the entire issue, doesn’t it? Some folks were upset SSR called it a Telugu film but isn’t it annoying when every movie is called Bollywood and ppl can’t differentiate between Tamil and Telugu?.”
RRR is the first Indian production to bag an Oscar award in the Original Song category for Naatu Naatu. The award ceremony took place earlier this month.
SS Rajamouli directed RRR. The film is set in pre-independent India and stars Ram Charan and Jr. NTR as the central characters. It also features Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles.
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