Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality — SkimNews
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- Priyanka Chopra Jonas executive produced "The Cycle of Love," a new film that premiered in New York, telling the BBC she was instantly drawn to the story when she first heard it.
- The film is based on the true story of Indian artist PK Mahanandia, who cycled 6,000 miles from India to Europe to reunite with the Swedish woman he loved.
- The film also explores the caste discrimination Mahanandia faced in India, layering a social-justice dimension onto the cross-continental romance.
- BBC culture correspondent Noor Nanji interviewed Chopra Jonas and director Orlando von Einsiedel ahead of the New York premiere.
- The project marks Chopra Jonas's continued push into production work beyond acting, using her platform to bring an obscure real-life story to a global stage.
Why it matters: Priyanka Chopra Jonas — one of Bollywood's biggest crossover stars — is using her production platform to elevate a 6,000-mile true love story that explicitly threads in caste discrimination, giving the caste angle a rare mainstream Hollywood debut alongside the romance at a New York premiere covered by the BBC.
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