Amaal Mallik opens up about 'campism and powerplay' in Bollywood after Priyanka Chopra

Singer-music composer Amaal Mallik has come out in support of global star Priyanka Chopra after she opened up about her decision to move to Hollywood. In an interview, Priyanka revealed that she was pushed into a corner in Bollywood and she got tired of the 'politics'.

Taking to Twitter, Amaal said that he faces the same ‘on a daily basis’. He added that it is about time that Bollywood’s truth about camps, cliques, and politics comes out in the open.

His tweet read, ‘Well it’s something that I face on a daily basis. When fans ask me why I don’t do as many Bollywood films ? Now you know ;) The truth about campism, bootlicking & powerplay within #Bollywood needs to come out more often. See what they tried to do to this amazing woman.’

Speaking with Dax Shepherd on his podcast ‘Armchair Expert’, Priyanka Chopra shared, ‘I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break. This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I didn’t want to get but I would require to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people. It would require groveling and I had worked a long time by then that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do it.’

Besides Amaal Mallik, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and actor Kangana Ranaut also came out in support of Priyanka Chopra.

Agnihotri tweeted, ‘When big bullies bully, some kneel down, some surrender, some give up and leave, some take drugs, few have lost life too. Against this ‘impossible to defeat’ gang of bullies, very very few quit and make their own universe of success. Those are the real life stars.’

Meanwhile, Kangana claimed filmmaker Karan Johar ‘banned’ Priyanka from the Hindi film industry and accused him of ‘harassing vulnerable outsiders’.