In the city for the promotion of her recent release, Fashion, Priyanka Chopra says that acting is all about reinvention

It might have taken almost over half of the movie to make Priyanka Chopra aka Piggy Chops a showstopper in her recent release- Fashion; but in real life, she is undoubtedly a showstopper already. Dressed in black, the dusky, girl-next-door of Bollywood with her charming appearance at the show of her film Fashion, caught the audience unawares at E-Square when she dropped in-between the screening with director Madhur Bhandarkar and Mughda Godse.

The model-turned-actor who plays the lead in Fashion, a story a super model, however comments that despite the modeling background, she had to put in extra efforts to get ready for the role. "I had been a model for only four months before I got into films, so in a way I still had to prepare and relearn and rehearse a lot. Seasoned models like Diandra, Alicia and Mugdha gave me tips on the correct walk and precise postures to carry off particular outfits." Chopra is said to be wearing about 137 different outfits for this film. In response to the queries on the murky details of the fashion industry she reveals, “I have been a part of the fashion world, but then in my real life I haven’t come across most of the situations that are shown in the film.” She further adds, “Sometimes I did not agree with what I was portraying in the film and that really affected me after a shoot."

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