Priyanka Chopra: Lesser known facts

The power-house actress Priyanka Chopra is not less than a busy bee right now. From completing her Bollywood project to featuring in her husband, Nick Jonas's singles, the lady is doing all with finesse. Priyanka apart from being an actress also own her own production company that produces quality films and if a report is to be believed, since she has too much work in the platter, Priyanka is seeking out to hire a few team members at her production house named, Purple Pebble Pictures.

Reportedly, Not just in India, PeeCee is looking at expanding employment in her US-based office. She is eager for candidates to approach her through a professional networking digital platform. PC has hiring for two positions, one is of Marketing Assistant, which she needs in India, while the other is of a Production Intern which she will hire in US.

Since Priyanka is very particular about education, for the internship position, she is going to have summer interns so that they can join during vacations and not bunk their classes while she is looking a Bollywood buff who knows in and out of Bollywood for the Markeing Assistant's position.

Hope students and Bollywood buffs are listening to this!

Priyanka Chopra has been in the news lately for her engagement with boyfriend, Nick Jonas. The couple put all rumoured speculations to rest when they conducted a traditional Roka ceremony on Saturday morning and followed it up with an engagement bash in the evening at Priyanka's residence in Mumbai.

Ever since the two got engaged, the duo has been hogging all the limelight. Needless to say, the social media is flooded with the loved-up images of the two. Given her global popularity, Priyanka lately saw a boost in her fan-following on Instagram. With 27 million followers (and counting) on the photo-sharing app, Priyanka dethroned Deepika Padukone to crown herself as the most followed Bollywood actress on Instagram.

On the work front, Priyanka Chopra is gearing up for her upcoming Bollywood project, 'The Sky Is Pink', directed by Shonali Bose and Siddharth Roy Kapur, Ronnie Screwvala and Chopra.

Priyanka Chopra has always left everyone impressed with her thoughts and opinions. The global icon has always rooted for women empowerment and her profound speeches have always captured a special place in everyone’s hearts and minds. In a hugely male-dominated ecosystem, Priyanka with her hardwork has carved a niche with immense fan following.

After establishing herself as an actor, she also chose to venture into production to add another feather to her cap. Today, as she celebrates her 36th birthday, Priyanka decided to make it extra special for all her women employees who work in her home production, Purple Pebble Productions.

Supporting the needs of every woman and weighing the sacrifices that they make for their families, Priyanka reportedly introduced special benefits including flexible timings for working mothers and special benefits during maternity leave for her female employees.

Priyanka’s mother Madhu Chopra told a daily that since 80 per cent of their female staff is married, they had to keep their interests in mind. She threw insight on the idea and said it was simple considering the fact that why women's life choices should become professional hurdles? She added that the policy of flexible timings for mothers was set in place by Priyanka, but fine-tuned by senior members of their company.

She further professed that that besides providing them maternity leave, the company also offers monetary assistance. They are also aiming at developing an in-house crèche for their employees. When asked if male employees also have such benefits, Madhu revealed how their company’s motto is gender parity and that one of their marketing executives had taken paternity leave for four weeks.

Priyanka Chopra will be soon making her Bollywood comeback with two extremely promising projects and the audience is quite excited about to see their desi girl back in action in Bollywood. She will be seen opposite Salman Khan in Ali Abbas Zafar’s ‘Bharat’, followed by Shonali Bose’s next titled ‘The Sky is Pink’.

It was initially reported that Priyanka will be paid more than Rs 12 crores for the film. However, sources close to the development refuted to these claims and revealed that PeeCee generously offered to do the film for free, but Salman Khan insisted on a token fee of Rs. 1 crore.

Yet another piece of information reported that Priyanka won’t take any upfront payment for her project with Shonali Bose but will instead share in the profits. The report stated that since the film banks on Priyanka and Zaira Wasim, who plays her daughter in the movie, Priyanka understood that if she needed to make this venture practicable, she can’t really demand for an upfront fee. Thus, she thought it’d be better to take a share of the film’s profits after it has done well.

However, Siddharth Roy Kapoor who is producing ‘The Sky is Pink’ said that there is no truth to these reports.

Globetrotter Priyanka Chopra seems to be the most eligible single woman of late. From her being on every celebrity chat show to her latest rumoured romance with Nick Jonas, the ‘Quantico’ star has been grabbing the news almost everyday.

While her ardent fans are eagerly waiting for their favourite ‘desi girl’ to come clean about her relationship, recently there was a news report which left everyone shocked. A few years back, in 2009, to be specific, Hollywood heartthrob Gerard Butler who has made every woman go weak in the knees had asked PeeCee out.

Apparently, he came down to India, and Priyanka hosted a party in honour of him at her Versova residence. Through the course of the evening, the smitten Gerard tried his best to woo her, but to no avail. A guest at the party revealed, "Of course the party was for Gerard who was completely besotted by Priyanka and kept proposing to her every half hour. It's become a standing joke rather a 'kneeling' joke between them. 'Will you marry me?' he knelt and said every half hour while she would burst into laughter. She's clearly not interested on being Mrs Butler.”

Even in 2012, the ‘300’ actor joked about his broken heart and had said that he is still single as he is still waiting for Priyanka Chopra.