Priyanka Chopra Jonas may not present to Oscars 2022 this year, but the actress is still involved with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a pre-award event that she will co-host alongside Mindy Kaling and Kumail Nanjiani, among others. The pre-Oscars event will also have Riz Ahmed, Gulistan Mirzaei among the special guests.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the 2022 Oscar calendar, the event will take place on March 23 in Beverly Hills. The special event will bring Chopra together alongside other incredible artists to discuss South Asian excellence in film. Priyanka will be joined by Mindy Kaling, Kumail Nanjiani, Anjula Acharia, Bela Bajaria, Maneesh K. Goya and Shruti Ganguly. Special guests of the evening also include Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh and Anurima Bhargava, writers and producers of the Indian documentary Writing With Fire, which won the Best Documentary Film nomination.

Other artists who have also been named special guests for the event include Suroosh Alvi, Choyning Dorji, Joseph Patel, Aneil Karia, Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei. Priyanka Chopra, who was last seen in The Matrix Resurrections, has been talking about South Asian representation in films for some time now and has also opened up about her own struggles to land roles in Hollywood that don’t allow her. would not classify.

As for her connection to the Oscars, Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas previously announced the 2021 Oscar nominees. The actress has also served as a presenter in the past for the 2016 ceremony.

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