As Priyanka Chopra makes it big on the global stage, she wants it all!
I saw her standing there.
It was a pleasant balmy night in March 2000, those few weeks of salubrious days and cuddlesome-cool nights that pass off as the way-too-short spring season in the national capital. It is a season for parties, as Delhiites rush to make the most of the good weather season with champagne brunches, polo matches and scotch dinners. This was one such five-star do hosted by Chivas Regal at the Hyatt Regency and if there is one reason why I still remember it vividly sixteen years thence, it is not the weather, the whisky (of which I had copious amounts) or my date for the evening (we were to break up a few weeks from then, though of course, I didn’t know it then).
Simply put, it was because of her. I saw her standing there. And almost two decades later, I still remember her standing there. My first encounter with a bonafide beauty queen in real life. And while the denouement never came down to anything like what the Beatles sing about in their hit song, I knew then and there that there was something about her.
Priyanka Chopra stood a few steps away from me, dressed in a black outfit and looking mesmerising. Her beauty was ‘past compare’, I thought, as I gawked and gawked, while my date shrugged and snarled, “it’s all make-up!’. But I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
The Priyanka Chopra I encountered that night would be world’s apart from the superstar totally at ease on the global stage, as we know her today. At that time, she was just a freshly minted beauty queen from the Femina stable, as she stood there with a determined poise, a wee bit lost and nervous, if you will.
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