Toronto: Priyanka Chopra on Grieving Father's Death By Plunging Into Bollywood Role — hollywoodreporter.com

Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra says she grieved over her father's death by playing a true-life Indian world champion female boxer on the big screen. Chopra told a Toronto Film Festival press conference for Omung Kumar's Mary Kom Thursday she started shooting the Bollywood movie immediately after her father died in June 2013 to avoid dealing with her loss. "I started filming the movie about four days after my dad passed away. I was training for it when he was really ill because I had to develop a body like a boxer. Then I had to take a few weeks off because dad got really ill," she recalled.

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