Mumbai:
National
award-winning
actress
Priyanka
Chopra's
father,
the
affable
Ashok
Chopra,
is
seriously
ill.
The
cancer
that
struck
the
doctor
a
few
years
back
has
returned.
He
is
currently
admitted
at
the
Kokilaben
Dhirubhai
Ambani
Hospital.
He
is
in
a
"very
critical
condition",
according
to
one
of
Priyanka's
friends.
'Daddy's
lil
girl',
Priyanka,
who
even
has
a
tattoo
of
the
same
words,
is
very
anxious
and
worried.
She
has
now
postponed
all
rehearsals
for
Omang
Kumar's
Mary
Kom
biopic.
Till
last
week,
when
her
father's
condition
deteriorated,
Priyanka
went
about
her
work
as
normal.
Only
those
close
to
her
know
what
she's
going
through.
Priyanka
was
attending
the
rehearsals
for
the
Mary
Kom
biopic
while
attending
to
her
father
in
her
free
time.
"Priyanka
was
religiously
attending
each
and
every
rehearsal.
She
doesn't
talk
about
her
father's
illness
with
anyone.
Nothing
in
her
outward
behaviour
suggests
anything
irregular
in
her
life.
Only
her
close
friends
know
what
she
is
going
through," said
a
source
from
the
Mary
Kom
film
crew.
Back
in
2005,
when
Priyanka
was
shooting
for
Rohan
Sippy's
Bluffmaster,
her
father
fell
ill.
Even
then,
Priyanka
had
not
shared
her
agony
with
anyone
on
the
sets.
"It's
the
same
now.
Priyanka
hasn't
told
anyone
at
her
work
place
how
unwell
her
father
is.
When
she
does
all
the
pugilist
practice
for
her
Mary
Kom
role,
it's
almost
as
though
she's
venting
all
her
grief
through
her
fists.
But
now
she
has
postponed
all
rehearsals," the
source
added.
Her
frail
father
had
accompanied
Priyanka
for
an
awards
function
held
in
Vancouver
earlier
this
year.
She
had
won
the
best
actress
trophy
for
her
stupendous
performance
as
an
autistic
girl
in
Barfi.
IANS