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Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been lighting up big screens for nearly 25 years, but across the past decade, her focus has been on bringing South Asian representation to Hollywood as an actress and producer with projects like Quantico, Baywatch and as the lead of the Citadel cast. Her latest project, "Varanasi," has Chopra Jonas returning to Indian cinema for the first time in years in a huge way. She spoke to CinemaBlend about one reason why she absolutely had to play the mysterious role of Mandakini in the globetrotting action film coming in 2027.

In November, I had the opportunity to travel to Hyderabad, India where Varanasi is currently filming to learn about the film from "RRR" filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli. When I sat down with the main cast, i.e. Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mahesh Babu and Prithviraj Sukumaran, we talked about a major part of the film: the music numbers.
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00:00It's sensational and I think one song we've already shot for and it just keeps
00:06playing in our minds and she kept she keeps singing it all the time and that
00:11song was because she wanted to dance and so I haven't done an Indian film in like
00:16six years right so when he called me and he was like oh you know this female
00:21character is really cool and I got you know you have to do it or whatever and
00:25so I was like I have one request you make me dance because I haven't danced
00:29for so long and you know we don't and yeah he made a dance and how whoa we be
00:38dancing oh my gosh and poor Mahesh was like just because of you because of you I have to do
00:46it too
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