Madhuri Dixit in a still from The Fame Game. (Image courtesy Instagram)
Priyanka Chopra was in the talks to produce an ABC single-camera sitcom based on the life of Madhuri Dixit, who moved from her home in India to Colorado after she got married.
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Around five years ago, it was announced that Priyanka Chopra Jonas was developing a sitcom based on the life of Bollywood superstar Madhuri Dixit-Nene. It was reported that Chopra would also be producing the show for US network ABC. Sri Rao, who has directed Dixit’s upcoming web series The Fame Game and is also the writer for shows like General Hospital: Night Shift, was supposed to pen the pilot and also be the executive producer of the series along with the actor’s husband Sriram Nene.
But Dixit in an exclusive chat with News18.com has confirmed that the project is no longer happening, “There was a discussion going on and we were trying to pitch it and Shri Rao who got me the script of The Fame Game and also directed the show was involved with that project too. But sometimes things work and there are times it doesn’t. We tried to get that sitcom approved but it didn’t pan out,” she informs.
The show was supposed to be about Dixit’s life in the American suburbs: in the mid-2000s she moved to Denver following her marriage to cardiologist Shriram Nene. The sitcom was going to focus on the actor’s life in a new neighbourhood where people had no idea how big of a star she actually was overseas.
“It wasn’t exactly my autobiography. It was part fiction and part reality. They were going to take certain instances of my life including the fact that I was a Bollywood actor before moving to Denver where no one really knew me. So what happens in such a situation? But it’s done and we aren’t working on it anymore,” she said.
Dixit will make her OTT debut as she stars in the upcoming Netflix thriller The Fame Game, in which she plays Bollywood superstar Anamika Anand, whose sudden disappearance sets off the unveiling of dark secrets around her life. While the actor is a superstar in her own rights, Dixit says the similarities between her character Anamika Anand and her life end right there. “Anamika’s equation with her family be it with her husband or mother —is different from mine. She is a fictitious character. You read so many stories about showbiz. I think the writer Sri Rao has taken these instances and woven them into Anamika’s life. It’s an exaggerated depiction; not all film people are like that,” she says.
