Speaking at a film festival, Priyanka Chopra Jonas revealed that when a female-led film doesn’t work, she considers it to be a ‘collective failure’ of all women. She shared that she was advised against taking on Fashion (2008), and doing a female-led film in the early stages of her career. “There’s a lot of pressure when you [are part of] a female-led film, because we have few [of them being made]. We are seeing the success of female-led films, but [achieving that] is tough. When such a film doesn’t do well, I feel [it is a] collective failure of all women. I feel we have taken them a few steps back. This has to work because there are a few of us who get the opportunity to do this, and we have to do it well, whether [we are] filmmakers, actors, writers, or hair and make-up artistes.”

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