Priyanka Chopra, who has worked extensively in both Hollywood and Bollywood, recently spoke about the difference between working in the two industries. The Citadel actor said that while there is less wiggle room in the West and a lot of paperwork, in India things work on “jugaad”.
In an interview with Forbes India during her recent Mumbai visit, Priyanka said, “The one big difference that I have noticed between Hollywood and Bollywood is Hollywood has so much paperwork. There’s so much paperwork, 100 emails that will come to you before the next day. And timings are very specific. So your call time can be 7:32 pm or am. It depends on what time you were wrapped the night before. There’s no room to play unless you’re working with a filmmaker that does that. But within production, it’s really tight and its very organised.”
Speaking about working in India, she added, “We have a lot more jugaad, we get stuff done. We’re a little romantic about… ‘Arre nikal jayega, ho jayega, kar lenge’ (We will get it done) so it’s very different way of working but that’s also true to the countries in themselves. I think our creativity can be super organic sometimes and we’re like ‘let’s change this.’ So that’s the big difference that I’ve seen. Otherwise I think filmmaking around the world speaks the same language. You have the script, you have ADs, you have producers, like otherwise it’s the same, but it’s just the cultural differences.”
Priyanka’s last Hindi film was the 2019 family-drama The Sky is Pink. She is also touted to be a part of Farhan Akhtar’s Jee Le Zaraa which also stars Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif but since the film’s announcement in 2021 there has been no update on it till now. The actor recently produced the Marathi film Paani.
Priyanka is currently working on the second season of Prime Video series Citadel. Her upcoming releases include Heads of State with Idris Elba and John Cena, and The Bluff.