Hollywood, Bollywood star and new mommy Priyanka Chopra is all set to host a Pre-Oscar event along with the inimitable Mindy Kaling and Kumail Nanjiani in Beverly Hills on March 23.
The purpose of the event is to celebrate South Asian Excellence. The other hosts for the event include Maneesh K, Anjula Acharia and Bela Bajaria.
The event is being sponsored by UTA, Johnnie Walker, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the Juggernaut and the South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund of the India Center.
As per ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, the guests expected to attend the event include Pawo Choyning Dorji (‘A Yak within a classroom’), Riz Ahmed and Suroosh Alvi (‘Flee’); Joseph Patel (‘Summer time of Soul’); Aneil Karia (‘The Lengthy Goodbye’); Sushmit Ghosh, Anurima Bhargava and Rintu Thomas, (‘Writing with Fireplace’), and Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei (‘Three Songs for Benazir’);
The event has been organized to celebrate South Asian talent and as such the evening is dedicated to various artists and talent from South Asia.
Priyanka Chopra was last seen in ‘Matrix: Resurrection’. As per ‘Dateline’ she will also be a part of the screen adaptation of the novel ‘Secret Daughter’, penned by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. The film also stars Sienna Miller. Priyanka is also reportedly co-producing this movie. The novel tells a story through the eyes of two women who are connected to each other because of a child.
Priyanka and her husband Nick Jonas are also keeping busy with their new-born daughter who was born via surrogacy in January 2022.
Priyanka has a full work plate with Farhan’s Akhtar’s ‘Jee Le Zara’ as well as several other Hollywood projects – ‘Citadel’, ‘Text for You’ and ‘Ending Things’.
