Priyanka Chopra Jonas Quit Bollywood Because ‘I Was Being Pushed Into a Corner’ and ‘I Had Beef With People’

variety.com:

Naman Ramachandran Hollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas has revealed for the first time why she quit her native Bollywood industry in India and started fresh in the U.S.

Speaking on the “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard” podcast, Chopra Jonas, who was a huge star in Bollywood before she moved to the U.S., said: “I was being pushed into a corner in the industry.

I had people not casting me for reasons… I had beef with people. I was tired of the politics. I was just like, ‘I need a break.'” The break came in the shape of a music career in the U.S.

In 2011, Universal Music Group signed Chopra Jonas to a worldwide recording agreement with DesiHits, and part of the deal was that her first studio album would be released by Interscope Records in North America and by Island Records in the rest of the world. “This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I wanted to get but I would require to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people and it would require, like, groveling and I had worked for a long time by then that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do it,” Chopra Jonas said on the podcast. “So when this music thing came, I was like fuck it.