Priyanka
Chopra in a local train
Priyanka Chopra will
never forget August 30, 2008. On Saturday, she travelled in a local train
all the way from Goregaon to Churchgate, and the train had no other passengers
except Priyanka and her five staff members!
When contacted, Priyanka
confirmed the news and said, "Yes, I did travel only with my staff members
in a local train from Goregaon to Churchgate."
As Priyanka urgently had
to reach NCPA, Nariman Point at 8 pm for an award ceremony, the producers
of Kaminey, Mubina Rattonsey and Vishal Bharadwaj arranged for the train.
A friend of Priyanka confirmed
the news and said, "Priyanka was shooting for Kaminey and the shoot was
being conducted in a local train.
The train was shuttling
between Goregaon and South Mumbai. The shoot was called off when the train
reached Goregaon around 6.15 pm."
"Priyanka was in a fix
as she had to reach NCPA for an award ceremony (where she received an award
for Excellence in Cinema). Priyanka knew that she would have never reached
NCPA at the scheduled time thanks to Mumbai's traffic.
If she had taken her car,
she wouldn't have made to the venue before 9.30 pm. Rattonsey and Bharadwaj
realised her problem and asked her to take the same train all the way to
Churchgate.
As it is, they had the
permission to shoot in that train all day on Saturday. It was an unbelievable
sight! Uss poori khali train mein sirf Priyanka aur uske paanch staff members
the," Priyanka's friend added.
Priyanka arrived at Churchgate
station at 7.30 pm. The awards ceremony organisers sent a car to pick her
up from Churchgate station. Some of Priyanka's staff who were not with
her on the train even suggested that she should step out of the local train
in a burkha.
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But Priyanka
flatly refused even though many people recognised her when she got off
at Churchgate station. Her staff had arranged for a few security guards
who immediately took her to her car.
Priyanka added, "It was
very kind of my producers Mubina Rattonsey and Vishal Bharadwaj to arrange
the train for me so that I could reach the event on time. I felt completely
pampered. A whole train for me and my staff! It was great fun." |
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