Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality
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- Priyanka Chopra Jonas serves as executive producer of "The Cycle of Love," a film 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.
- Chopra Jonas told the BBC she was instantly drawn to the story when she first heard it.
- The film also explores the caste discrimination Mahanandia faced in India — a theme the BBC notes alongside the romance.
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel co-leads the project, and BBC culture correspondent Noor Nanji interviewed both him and Chopra Jonas before the film's New York premiere.
- The film, titled "The Cycle of Love," premieres in New York and folds Mahanandia's cross-continental journey together with the caste barriers he navigated in India.
Why it matters: The film ties Mahanandia's 6,000-mile bike ride to the caste discrimination he faced in India, pairing a romantic cross-continental story with a direct examination of caste — the second theme the source explicitly flags as part of the same narrative.
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