Anil Sharma refuses to take credit for Priyanka Chopra’s success, recalls casting her without a screen test in her debut: ‘She still has the middle-class sanskaar of a UP family’

Before becoming one of India’s most celebrated exports to Hollywood, Priyanka Chopra began her Bollywood journey under the direction of Anil Sharma. Fresh off her Miss World 2000 win, she made her acting debut in The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) alongside Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta. In a recent interview, director Anil Sharma downplayed being credited for Priyanka’s success.