{"id":865974,"date":"2025-08-17T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/r-madhavan-praises-priyanka-chopra-again-half-the-heroes-in-india-would-love-to-be-in-her-position\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:15:33","slug":"r-madhavan-praises-priyanka-chopra-again-half-the-heroes-in-india-would-love-to-be-in-her-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/r-madhavan-praises-priyanka-chopra-again-half-the-heroes-in-india-would-love-to-be-in-her-position\/","title":{"rendered":"R Madhavan praises Priyanka Chopra again: &#8216;Half the heroes in India would love to be in her position&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dataHolder\" data-vars-storyid=\"101752664543245\" data-story-section=\"entertainment\" data-story-subsection=\"bollywood\" data-vars-author=\"HT Entertainment Desk\" data-premium-story=\"false\" data-performance-type=\"not-set\" data-type=\"story\" data-title=\"Bollywood News, Latest Bollywood News and Celebrity Gossips Today\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\" data-story-id=\"101752664543245\" data-story-sectionid=\"101606126876869\" data-story-subsectionid=\"101606127356011\" data-containaffiliate-embed=\"false\" data-disable-poll=\"false\" data-disable-quiz=\"false\" data-published-date=\"07162025-17:46:34\" data-created-by=\"Ritika Kumar\" data-author-name=\"HT Entertainment Desk\" data-story-title=\"R Madhavan praises Priyanka Chopra again: 'Half the heroes in India would love to be in her position'\">\n<div>\n<p>Updated on: Jul 16, 2025 05:46 pm IST <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Actor R Madhavan commends Priyanka Chopra&#8217;s performance in Heads of State, celebrating her success in a major Hollywood project.\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div dataid=\"\/entertainment\/bollywood\/r-madhavan-praises-priyanka-chopra-says-half-the-heroes-in-india-would-love-to-be-in-her-position-101752664543245.html\">\n<div>\n<p>Actor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/r-madhavan-opens-up-about-his-onscreen-chemistry-in-films-says-it-is-important-to-fall-in-love-with-his-heroine-101752406110148.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"R Madhavan\">R Madhavan<\/a> has heaped praise on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/priyanka-chopra\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Priyanka Chopra\">Priyanka Chopra<\/a> for her latest international release, Heads of State, calling her achievement a proud moment not just for herself, but for India. In a recent interview, Madhavan expressed his admiration for Priyanka\u2019s powerful performance and the way she has represented Indian talent on the global stage.<\/p>\n<figure class> <span class> <picture><source media=\"(max-width:767px)\"  alt=\"R Madhavan views her achievement as a reflection of Indian talent on the world stage, expressing pride in her journey.\" title=\"R Madhavan views her achievement as a reflection of Indian talent on the world stage, expressing pride in her journey.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2025\/07\/16\/550x309\/MixCollage-16-Jul-2025-04-48-PM-2611_1752664731867_1752664744179.jpg\" alt=\"R Madhavan views her achievement as a reflection of Indian talent on the world stage, expressing pride in her journey.\" title=\"R Madhavan views her achievement as a reflection of Indian talent on the world stage, expressing pride in her journey.\"> <\/picture> <\/span><figcaption>R Madhavan views her achievement as a reflection of Indian talent on the world stage, expressing pride in her journey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018I am very proud of Priyanka,&#8217; says R Madhavan<\/h2>\n<p>Madhavan spoke about Priyanka\u2019s success in the high-octane action-comedy, Heads of State, in an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_f_FBhVCuiE\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"interview\">interview <\/a>with Siddharth Kannan. \u201cShe has nonchalantly gone there and taken the main lead in such a massive Hollywood project. She\u2019s done action in the film, and I think half of the heroes in India would love to be in her position, playing a role in that kind of movie,\u201d Madhavan said.<\/p>\n<p>Heads of State, which recently premiered on Prime Video, stars Priyanka alongside Idris Elba and John Cena in a fast-paced, action-packed adventure. The film has garnered attention not just for its ensemble cast but also for Priyanka&#8217;s standout performance, which includes intense action sequences.<\/p>\n<p>Madhavan didn\u2019t hold back in applauding Priyanka\u2019s journey. \u201cI\u2019m a really big fan of how she is and how she\u2019s carried herself. I am very proud of her,&#8221; Madhavan said.<\/p>\n<h3>Madhavan and Priyanka&#8217;s upcoming projetcs<\/h3>\n<p>Madhavan is currently starring in Netflix\u2019s romantic drama Aap Jaisa Koi, which premiered on 11 July. In it, he stars opposite Fatima\u202fSana\u202fShaikh and plays a complex professor who fights his patriarchal mindset to succeed in love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also part of the ensemble cast in the upcoming spy thriller Dhurandhar, which is slated for a 5 December release and stars Ranveer\u202fSingh, Sanjay\u202fDutt, Akshay Khanna, and Arjun Rampal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Priyanka is riding high on the global stage with her role as MI6 agent Noel Bisset in the action\u2011comedy Heads of State, released on Prime Video on 2 July. She&#8217;s also gearing up for a high-profile return to Indian cinema, with a part in SS\u202fRajamouli\u2019s Indiana Jones-style epic tentatively titled SSMB29, opposite Mahesh\u202fBabu.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/r-madhavan-praises-priyanka-chopra-says-half-the-heroes-in-india-would-love-to-be-in-her-position-101752664543245.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated on: Jul 16, 2025 05:46 pm IST Actor R Madhavan commends Priyanka Chopra&#8217;s performance in Heads of State, celebrating her success in a major Hollywood project.\u00a0 Actor R Madhavan has heaped praise on Priyanka Chopra for her latest international release, Heads of State, calling her achievement a proud moment not just for herself, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122006,1039],"tags":[122005,9963],"class_list":{"0":"post-865974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madhavan","8":"category-praises","9":"tag-madhavan","10":"tag-praises"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}