With Priyanka Chopra making her Hollywood debut as the lead in American network ABC's new thriller Quantico, it seems Indian actors will no more be subjected to only peripheral or ethnicity-specific roles.
Anil Kapoor, who played an important part in Kiefer Sutherland starrer espionage drama 24, says this this is just the beginning for Bollywood actors in the West.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are now gradually coming into own own in the West. Actors like Irrfan and I aren’t being offered culture-specific roles, nor being asked to sport thick accents. Just wait and see what we achieve now,” he says.
Gushan Grover who worked on The Second Jungle Book in 1996 and went on to star in many Hollywood projects subsequently, believes that Priyanka’s new acting job is the culmination of a movement that started years ago.
“Priyanka is really going places. When I congratulated her she said, ‘Coming from you it means a lot.’
“It
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