Parineeti Chopra

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Parineeti was born to a businessman and supplier of Indian army Pawan Chopra and his wife Reena Chopra on 22nd October 1988 in Ambala, Haryana. She has two brothers Shivang and Saraj where as Priyanka Chopra, Meera Chopra and Mannara are all her cousins. She studied at Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ambala Cantonment during here initial days of education. She moved to London at the age of 17,where she achieved triple honors in economics, business and finance from Manchester Business School in United Kingdom. She also worked part time as the team leader of catering department for the Manchester United Football Club. In 2009, Chopra returned to India and stayed with her cousin Priyanka Chopra in Mumbai. Parineeti got an internship in the Yash Raj production company as the public relations consultant in the marketing department as once during her visit to the Yash Raj Films Studio, her sister, Priyanka Chopra who was then shooting for Pyaar Impossible had introduced Parineeti to the head of public relations department of the company.

Chopra wanted to become an investment banker at first place. Being a punjabi, she's always been a foodie and loved food which also led to her being overweight before she got into the acting career.She worked real hard to get her desired personality for the film industry. Parineeti is a learned classical singer too. Even after joining the film industry, Chopra was a chubby girl. She didn't wear the clothes she wanted to as she thought that won't look nice on her. She was firm on her decision of getting into the shape she wanted to so she could wear clothes according to her desire. Chopra started jogging, swimming, dancing whenever she got time and also learnt pilates from the famous celebrity trainer Yasmin. Yasmin had helped Parineeti a lot to stay motivated and work hard for herself.

Parineeti considered the PR consultant job at the Yash Raj Production company as a perfect job. She had a strong dislike against the acting career until she saw her sister, Priyanka Chopra preparing for her role in 7 (Saath) Khoon Maaf which totally changed Parineeti’s perception towards the film industry and the acting career. The respect for the film industry grew from Parineeti’s side once she started learning more about the film making. Chopra decided to resign from her job and start attending an acting school as during the promotions of Band Baaja Baaraat, she realised she wanted to become an actress. Aditya Chopra, the then vice president of Yash Raj Films was suggest Parineeti by the director Maneesh Sharma to but he refused to sign in someone from the office work of the production company. Maneesh had advised Parineeti to go to the casting director of the company when she told him she was going to attend an acting school. Little did Parineeti know, the lines she delivered fooling around the camera of the character Geet from Jab We Met would get her into a three film deal once Aditya Chopra watched it and was impressed by her acting skills without actually attending any acting school and learning. Parineeti made her acting debut with the romantic comedy Ladies vs Ricky Bahl as a supporting actress with Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma in 2011 in which she played the role of a Delhi based rich spoiled brat Dimple Chadda and impressed everyone with her bubbly girl avatar. Chopra also won the Apsara and IIFA awards for the best supporting role female. Her second movie but the first as a lead actress was Habib Faisal’s Ishaqzaade in which she was paired opposite Arjun Kapoor where she play role of Zoya a rebellious girl where she falls in love with a Hindu boy and gets married to him which was a superhit at the box office. Chopra had received a National Award for this movie and also nomination for the best actress at Filmfare, Screen and Apsara awards. Her next movie was her second collaboration with Maneesh Sharma opposite Sushant Singh Rajput in Shuddh Desi Romance which also casted new comer Vaani Kapoor. She played the role of Gayatri who had a carefree attitude towards everything. She got several nominations for the best actress for this movie. Chopra’s first movie outside the Yash Raj banner was Dharma Production’s Hasee Toh Phasee which was jointly produced by Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar in which she played the role of a psycho scientist opposite Sidharth Malhotra along with Adah Sharma. The film was a moderate success and had received positive reviews from the critics. Her second collaboration with Habib Faisal was the romantic comedy dowry based Daawat e Ishq in which she played the role of a middle class girl Gulrez along with Aditya Roy Kapur and Anupam Kher. Her next film was Shaad Ali’s crime based Kill Dil with Govinda, Ranveer Singh and Ali Zafar. Both Daawat-e-Ishq and Kill Dil failed terribly at the box office. She also did a cameo as Muskaan in Dishoom which casted Varun Dhawan, John Abraham and Jacqueline Fernandez. Parineeti’s upcoming movie is Meri Pyaari Bindu which is a story of an aspiring singer opposite Ayushmann Khurrana directed by debutant director Akshay Roy of the Yash Raj banner as a romantic comedy. She will be making her singing debut in the film industry through this film. She has also signed Homi Adajania’s Takadum which she's casted opposite Sushant Singh Rajput.