Taking a trip down memory lane, global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas reminisced how her ‘impulsive phone call’ to Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif led to the idea of making her recently announced female multi-starrer ‘Jee Le Zara’.
On the occasion of the 20-year anniversary of his National Award-winning film ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar announced his next directorial venture ‘Jee Le Zaraa’.
Announcing the news, he took to Twitter and wrote, “Did someone say road trip? Thrilled to announce my next film as director and what better day than 20 years of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ to do it. #JeeLeZaraa with @priyankachopra #KatrinaKaif @aliaa08. I cannot wait to get this show on the road.”
Did someone say road trip? #JeeLeZaraa #KatrinaKaif @aliaa08 @FarOutAkhtar #ZoyaAkhtar @kagtireema @ritesh_sid @excelmovies @tigerbabyfilms @chaimettoast pic.twitter.com/dcjKrIMnKt
— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) August 10, 2021
Priyanka, Alia, and Katrina also expressed their excitement about being a part of ‘Jee Le Zaraa’, on their social media accounts; but it was the former Miss World’s post in which she shared the anecdote behind the collaboration of the leading ladies of Bollywood.
Sharing a picture with her ‘girlfriends’, Priyanka recalled the 2019’s November month when on an unusually rainy night in Mumbai she mused about wanting to do another Hindi movie “ASAP”.
Cannot wait to be on set with this lot. This makes my heart so happy ♥️#JeeLeZaraa #KatrinaKaif @aliaa08 @FarOutAkhtar #ZoyaAkhtar @kagtireema @ritesh_sid @excelmovies @tigerbabyfilms @chaimettoast pic.twitter.com/2tEb0XqOAG
— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) August 10, 2021
“But it had to be the right one – different, cool, never been done before… I thought. The idea grew into a movie helmed by an all-female cast. There are not enough Hindi movies that are female multi-starrers. This led to an impulsive phone call… to my 2 real friends about this idea that involved 3 on-screen girlfriends. A celebration of friendship we called it!!” Priyanka shared in the caption.
Picture : Instagram
The ‘Bajirao Mastani’ actor further shared that the three divas “enthusiastically met in February 2020”, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, “to discuss who we could trust to bring this vision to life for us and our choice was unanimous… Farhan and Ritesh, Zoya and Reema. We had all worked with @excelmovies and @tigerbabyfilms individually so this seemed perfect. It just so happened that Farhan was working on a female road trip movie at the same time! Talk about all the stars aligning!!”
