Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra recently spilled the beans about why she decided to join Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt for ‘Jee Le Zaraa’, a film by Farhan Akhtar. 

Chopra, who is a strong advocate of women empowerment, teamed up with the industry’s biggest competitors and called Kaif and Bhatt “two of the top actresses in the country.”

“The three of us decided we wanted to do a movie together and partner together to produce it. But the idea is, yes, it was very different when I started out. We were all pitted against each other, and our casting was very dependent on the lead actor of the movie, and it depends on who is the flavor at that time and that was a very unsettling feeling. It’s a really telling question because it really gave my career a very specific direction because of a specific uncomfortable feeling,” the 39-year-old star told Deadline. 

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Revealing her secret to attaining success in cinema, Chopra said, “I took on many parts which were female-driven. I took on movies that were solely on my shoulders because it was very uncomfortable to have to be the flavor of the season and then not get cast. So, it defines me taking on movies that didn’t necessarily always have the big male leads and it made my career very much my own.”

Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Jee Le Zaraa‘ is co-written by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar and is collectively produced by Farhan and Ritesh Sidhwani’s production banner. 

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While the plot of the film has been kept under the wraps, cinephiles speculate that it could bear resemblance to the 2011 rom-com ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, which starred Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin.