Actress Priyanka Chopra remembered her father, Dr Ashok Chopra, on his 8th death anniversary last week. She took to Instagram to share an anecdote from when she was five years old. She also shared a picture seemingly from her book 'Unfinished', featuring her kid self smiling and holding a mic on stage alongside her father who is seen looking at her while singing.
Dated December 31, 1987, there is a note under the photo that reads, “From my earliest years, my dad and I had an understanding: Whenever he was performing at the army club he would look me in the eye during the first song. The New Year's Eve I was five he forgot, so I started to leave in a huff. Dad jumped off the stage and pulled me up onto it with him, coaxing me into a duet – a nursery rhyme – and winning my forgiveness.” PeeCee captioned the post, “It never gets easier... love you dad.”
Dr Ashok Chopra died in June 2013, after a five-year battle with cancer. Priyanka has time and again commemorated him on social media. She also has a wrist tattoo dedicated to her father. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she talked about him. She said, “I do feel that he's been instrumental in me being where I am today. He's helped me find a sense of peace, which I never had when he was around. He always saw me as a reckless, trying to get to the new place thing and he always wanted me to have a sense of peace. That's when I feel him around, when I feel peaceful.”
On the work front, Priyanka is currently working on spy series 'Citadel' alongside Richard Madden. She has finished shooting 'Text for You', and will soon be seen in an Indian wedding comedy with Mindy Kaling, which she will co-produce and feature in. Priyanka also has 'Matrix 4' and a film based on the life of Ma Anand Sheela in the works.
