Her 2010 film Pyaar Impossible was a flop while her other romantic comedy that year Anjaana Anjaani was declared an above average grosser by Box Office India. In the following year, Priyanka played a feisty Marathi woman in the movie Kaminey opposite Shahid Kapoor, in which she received a Filmfare nomination for the Best Actress and won an Apsara Award for Best Actress in a leading role. The film saw commercial success too, grossing in worldwide revenues of US$ 14million. Her next film in 2008 was Dostana, which the Box Office said, was fresh, frothy, naughty and delightful romantic comedy. Soon afterwards, she appeared in another film God Tussi Great Ho (2008) which saw moderate success in the home video circuit. Her performance in Fashion earned her a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award, an Apsara Award, an IIFA Award and the Screen Award for Best Actress. By 2009, she was number one on the list of Top 10 Actresses 2000-10 on. ranked her second in 20 in their annual listing of Bollywood’s Best Actresses.Īfter a string of flop films like Drona (2008) and Love Story 2050 (2008), she reappeared gloriously in the 2008 film Fashion. She became well known for her professionalism and earned the nickname ‘Piggy Chops’ by her co-stars on the sets of Bluffmaster in 2005. In her early days in Bollywood, she managed to get 11 Awards for her performances in movies like The Hero: Love Story of a Spy, Andaaz (2003) Aitraaz (2004), Mujshe Shaadi Karogi (2004) and Krrish (2006). Her debut in Bollywood came with the movie The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003).Īfter acting in several Bollywood films, she made her voice felt as a playback singer lending her voice for the movie Barsaat (2005) with the song Saajan Saajan Saajan. Shortly after being crowned Miss World, Priyanka made her appearance in the Tamil film Thamizhan in 2002.