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Ad guru Prahlad Kakkar spoke about Priyanka Chopra’s rise in the film industry, and said that he always knew that she had an edge over Lara Dutta, with whom she was pitted at the start of her career. Priyanka won the Miss World pageant before joining the film industry, and broke out as a major star in the mid-2000s. In an interview, Prahlad praised her for maintaining her dignity despite having mud slung at her, and for making it in Hollywood after she stopped getting meaningful work in the Hindi industry.
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In the same interview, Prahlad also commented on Salman Khan’s disadvantages before he became an overnight sensation with the success of his debut film, Maine Pyar Kiya. He said, “Salman used to be on my sets all the time because he was very good friends with my wife. He was not even a struggler then; he’d done nothing in life… He was a good-looking boy, but he wasn’t star material, as far as I was concerned because he had lots of issues. He was short, he wasn’t a great actor at that time. We needed people to perform. But we used a lot of him, because he would do it for Rs 2,000 or Rs 3,000.”
Prahlad mentioned the allegations of abuse that were made against Salman when he was said to be seeing Aishwarya, and he claimed to have been a witness to some of their altercations because he lived in the same building as her. “I was living in the same building! He would make scenes in the foyer. He would bang his head at the wall. The relationship had ended long before it ended. It was a relief for everybody; her parents, her, everybody. She wasn’t upset about the break-up. She was upset about being completely… Everybody took Salman’s side and not hers,” he said.
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