Red Sea Festival
Priyanka Chopra receives award at Red Sea International Film Festival
Jeddah/IBNS: Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra on Thursday dazzled the red carpet of the Red Sea International Film Festival 2024 and also bagged an honourary award as all roads lead to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the ongoing movie extravaganza.
The Indian actress, who now primarily works in the United States, was accompanied by her husband, singer Nick Jonas, at the awards ceremony.
Priyanka shared some of the shots from the festival with her 92.5 million Instagram users.
"Thank you for the wonderful honour Red Sea Film Festival. Congratulations to all the winners and participants. Here’s to continually bringing the world of entertainment together," the 42-year-old wrote, captioning her social media post, which has been showered with love by her colleagues from Mumbai.
The former Miss World was wearing a shimmery bodycon off-shoulder gown while her husband, Nick, looked dapper in formals.
Receiving the award, Priyanka looked back at her illustrious career and shared, "When I started working, I was 18 years old. I come from an industry that spoke Hindi and Telugu, basically non-English films. I remember when I was seeking work across borders, and I was told that non-English films do not travel.
"Yet, we are here today. You have been able to create a safe, incredible space for filmmakers and storytellers around the world to come together without the thought of nationality, language and borders."
"We know, as people who work, and I might be biased, but in one of the best, most incredible industries in the world, we get to play for a living, we get to tell stories for a living, and we get to dream for a living.
"And you have been able to bring people together outside of borders, languages to just celebrate this incredible medium of cinema. I feel so grateful to be here and to be standing on this stage receiving this incredible honour," she said.
In India, Priyanka, who made her film debut in 2002, is known for films Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Aitraaz, Krrish, Don, Fashion, Barfi!, Mary Kom et al.
She ventured into the west with American television show Quantico where she grabbed the limelight playing Alex Parish.
Priyanka was last seen in American romantic-comedy film Love Again where starred alongside John Cena and Idris Elba.
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