Parineeti Chopra says being single is the best way to improve yourself
Parineeti Chopra is currently waiting for her next project Girl on the Train to release. The first look of the project has already created a stir online and the audience is eager to catch this one. Parineeti might be concentrating on her professional life fully currently but she also has a personal life she doesn’t talk much about. The actress has been in three serious relationships in life till now and looking back she says she wishes she had stayed single for a while.
Talking about what she looks for in a man and is being in a relationship better or being single, she said, “I cannot have a romantic relationship with another human being who has the same problems as me. I’m that girl who wants to come home and be in her night suit, just watch TV, be lazy and do nothing. I’ve had three long relationships. Now that I’m 31, I really wish I’d spent more time being single. I really think it’s the best way to improve yourself, it’s the best way to have fun. In light of the things that have happened in the last three-four months, I’m even more convinced that life is too fickle. If I want to sleep all day, I will sleep all day. If I want to travel, I’ll travel. If I want to work, I’ll work. I’m solo in this journey of life and I really need to live it.” Great thinking Parineeti.
Parineeti Chopra has been around in the industry for a while now. Though she has had her fair share of ups and downs in Bollywood, the actress is set to bounce back with her projects she has lined up for the coming months. Parineeti is sure to impress the audience again with her charm on screen. But the actress recalled her initial days in the industry in a chat with Filmfare and said that she was too carefree when she entered Bollywood. The actress said that she would say things to just make people laugh in interviews which would land her up in a mess.
She said, “I used to treat interviews like bedroom conversations. Also, I have this huge urge to make people laugh all the time. Everything I say has to be little chatpata. So, sometimes some journos would paste it as a headline. This led to so many problems with my friends and family. They’ve called me up at 6 am and asked, “There’s this news article… how dare you say this about me?” I was just putting out fires for the first three years in the industry with things that I’d said.”
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Parineeti Chopra was in her hometown Ambala to shoot for the first time in her career so far. Excerpts from a conversation with her...
You were shooting in hometown, Ambala for first time. Did it feel like homecoming?
It felt surreal. Shooting in a bigger town is no big a deal as that’s what we do mostly. But Ambala is not known for film shootings. For me, to have grown up in Ambala, go to London, then come to India as an actor and return to Ambala, it felt like coming back full circle. It also felt like a reunion with friends and family, more than work. Has the fear of shooting amid the pandemic eased this year now that the coronavirus in India seems to be waning?
That fear cannot go away yet because the virus is still very much here. We have to resume life as much as possible but do it cautiously. Till I get vaccinated I am going to maintain that same protocol as last year.
Last year you seemed to have most of spare time by travelling with your family.
It wasn’t like I was holidaying. I was in Mumbai for first four months and then moved to London, which is like my adopted hometown, in July and stayed there for six months. My family came to visit me, but we maintained all isolation protocol, quarantined, took COVID tests. I just quarantined somewhere else instead of India.
Much has been said about how the pandemic impacting people and their work decisions. Does that hold true for you?
The lockdown was a pause in our lives but not something that impacted my decisions. For last few years I wanted to explore roles I have not done before, and to do films which people didn’t think I could do. Was the decision to explore OTT motivated by the liberty that the medium offers? Well, it does offer little more flexibility, though now there is discussion about censorship there too. The freedom of creativity on OTT makes it more fun. That said, I am here to make films for theatres and cinema, that’s my priority. We are Hindi film actors and we want our audiences to come and watch our films with popcorn on the big screen. Hopefully, both OTT and theatres can co-exist someday. You have been rooting for your cousin, Priyanka Chopra, nominated in BAFTA longlist... I got to spend so much time with didi (Priyanka) her when I was quarantining in London because she also lives there, and we had so many discussions about her film. She has always done things that others haven’t and she is an inspiration.