Priyanka Chopra making sitcom based on life of Madhuri Dixit
MUMBAI: Actress Priyanka Chopra is producing an ABC single- camera sitcom based on the life of Bollywood superstar Madhuri Dixit.
Dixit had moved from her home in India to Colorado after marriage.
The show will be about Dixit’s life in the American suburbs: in the mid-2000s, she moved to a Denver neighbourhood following her marriage to cardiologist Shriram Nene. The sitcom will focus on Dixit’s attempts to bring her colourful style to an otherwise dull place full of people who have no idea how big of a star she actually is overseas.
Dixit won six Filmfare Awards and has won critical praise for her roles in almost every movie she’s been in, including 2002’s Devdas, which screened at the Cannes International Film Festival.
In 2008 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour in the country. In 2002 she took a sabbatical from cinema to move to America to raise her family, and in 2007 made her comeback in the musical Aaja Nachle. The Chopra-produced show will focus on those years between 2002 and 2007.
Dixit and her husband are also producing the show, and the pilot writer Sri Rao, former head writer for General Hospital: Night Shift, is a veteran of Bollywood as well.
It sounds like this show will be to Hindi cinema in America what Jane the Virgin is to the Latin telenovela.
Said Priyanka: “One of the favourite parts of my job as an actress-producer is that I can tell stories across genres, languages and to a varied audience. The story needs to appeal to me and impress me and what better than the incredible, real life of Madhuri Dixit.”
Priyanka is also presently shooting for Todd Strauss’s Isn’t It Romantic alongside Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth and Adam Devine in New York.
As for the Dixit sitcom, she said: “It’s unchartered territory for me but I’m happy I’ve taken another step in my creative journey as a producer.”