Priyanka Chopra with Tyra Banks and Kate Moss

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Bollywood actresses are really proving their mettle these days. Close on the heels of Aishwarya Rai and Bipasha bagging Sir Ben Kingsley’s film based on the Taj Mahal, it’s now the turn of Priyanka Chopra to steal the limelight. Now, Piggy Chops is all set to sizzle the fashion world by bagging the lead role in two time national award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar’s film, Fashion. The film is set to go on floors by December end. Madhur will be shooting parts of the film in the fashion capitals of the world - Paris and Milan. If this isn’t enough, for the grand finale, Priyanka will walk the ramp in the centre flanked by, hold on… well none other than international supermodels Tyra Banks and Kate Moss. “It can’t get bigger than this.

With Fashion, Indian films will go global in a big way. This is larger than life, we are in talks with other international and Indian top models and likely to close the deal soon,” says the associate producer of the film Ram Mirchandani. Priyanka Chopra who is shooting away in the jungles in Namibia is elated to have bagged Madhur’s film. She told us “Madhur and I have been looking for the right opportunity to work together and I am quite happy that our first association will be with a film like Fashion.” But didn’t she initially decline to part of it? “No way, I always believed in the film. It promises to be a powerful association because it is a great combination of a script that is performance based and a director who makes very real cinema. It’s going to be an exciting experience and I am looking forward to it,” she says.

Why has the project been delayed? ”I wanted to be sure of the script before shooting started. I have been working on the story for months on end and this is the fourth draft I have written along with my writers. But now I’m ready to show my story of fashion to the world,” says Madhur. So will he be digging out more disturbing and provoking aspects and issues on this film ala Page 3 ? “Yes I would. My movies are issue-based, self-awakening films. As a filmmaker, I tend to go and explore things. I go where no filmmakers have gone before . Fashion will be a blend of facts and fiction, but this time the gloss will be more unlike my previous films,” he says. What’s next? “After Fashion, I will be taking a break from the women oriented films and my next movies will all be male oriented, big budget films in the range of 25 to 30 crores,” he laughs.