Unfinished By Priyanka Chopra Jonas Book Review

 

Recently Priyanka Chopra's memoir "Unfinished" has been released and since its release, the book is trending almost everywhere be it book tube or bookstagram. So finally I have read this book and today as the title says I am going to share my thoughts on this book. So without any further ado we are gonna start but if you don't want to read the entire article then watch the short video that sums up the entire review, otherwise read the article.

Before full indulgence in the book let me tell you what are my personal thoughts on Priyanka Chopra. I am not a die-hard fan of her but I respect her. I really loved her acting in her Barfi as well as Mary Kom. In both films, she is just marvellous. I really respect how she has achieved her sky-high milestones in just a few years. Now coming to the book. I have mixed feelings about this book. The book to me has both positive and negative points. So if you a die-hard Priyanka Chopra fan then when I will be discussing the negative points that may hurt you but I have no intention to do that. But Here I share only honest review without any sugar-coating so that my viewers when buying a book after watching my review, they be aware of all the aspects of the book.  Now let's start the review.

The book targets a global audience rather than an Indian audience only so it consists of many definitive detailing to make people aware of the her culture who has no idea about it.

The  book consists of 11 chapters. The book has a pretty linear timeline. Starts from childhood then talk about her teenage years both in India and the US, they go on to drop light on her pageant days and career in Bollywood as well as Hollywood, her business ventures, her relationship and marriage with nick Jonas and finally her future plans. The title of the book is unfinished because she is still alive and there are many more things to achieve.

Anyway coming to my thoughts upon the book.

First coming to the positive points. Let’s focus on the bright sides first. Three things I have really enjoyed about the book. first, the message if your family stays supportive throughout your journey of life everything gets easier. As she describes her parents in her book anybody would be jealous of her parents. In this regards, she is extremely lucky. The pages on her relationship with her father and his death can leave one teary-eyed. Number two, self-acceptance and self-analysis. I really liked that Priyanka Chopra has included the topic of self-acceptance as well as self-analysis. When her relationships failed she didn’t put the blame on others and dust off her hands rather she analysed her own self to get a happier life. Number three talks about mental illness and depressions. Though she confirms she wasn’t diagnosed with clinical depression but she felt some symptoms that were maybe an indicator of it. Here end the list of positive traits and the list of negative traits begins. Again saying die-hard Priyanka fans stay away.

At beginning of the book, she tells she comes off a traditional middle-class family. In this regards, I would like to say Priyanka Chopra lacks knowledge about what belonging to a middle-class family means. She attends posh high school without any scholarships, getting topnotch education , Travels back and forth between the US and India with her family where many of his family members are in the US enjoys parties with her doctor parents at elites clubs. There is no trace of struggles and crisis middle-class people have to face every day then.. is this just a tool to gain sympathy? Anyway, the next point.

After reading the memoir it made me feel she was just lucky who grabbed the opportunity when it was served before her in plates. She is privileged but she never accepts it. After winning the beauty pageant she quicky get s her first project. Many struggling actors and actresses getting trained from drama schools to work hard for and takes auditions after auditions for that. The book lacks depth. Priyanka documented events in her life but forgot to put the soul in it. I don’t feel connected with it. She just does not opens up. Never shares her inner feeling excepts a few numbers of pages on her and her father's relation and his death. A memoir is all about personal feelings! Isn’t it!

Priyanka tries to show herself right in every aspect even when she reveals snippets of her vulnerable sides. We are humans right. Not everything in us and our lives can be perfect. We all are somehow someway flawed! But here the actress never applies this mentality. Here she is always right and she is doing the best possible thing to do. The book is crafted in such away. That makes it seem unauthentic. The charm leaves.

The book is full of google stuff. If you are a frequent follower of media, read magazines and articles, and watched interviews of the actress then this book offers nothing new to you.  No new information. She though details where detailing isn’t that much required. Sometimes it reads like an award acceptance speech where celebs thanks people for taking names like I would like to thank dash and dash. The book provides surface-level information. Doesn’t go deeper into it. As a result, the connection between a reader and a book is never established. The book turns boring.

I have watched many of Priyanka Chopra's interviews and was impressed by her communication skills many times. So I expected that her book to be having a flowing decent elegant language. I didn’t enjoy the language of the book. Sometimes she connects sentences with dashes to ruin the entire mood.  I have read many works by authors who craft fully handles dashed in between sentences to provide a beautiful piece. But that requires mastery and she to imitate those may just ruin it. The flow of the text disrupted several times in her piece. Now some people would say she is not a professional author. She tried her best. Ya clap for that but I have purchased this book to enjoy and as a reader, I am going to judge her as an author as she has taken the responsibility to write it.

I would like to rate the book 2.5/5

Good reads rating for the book is 3.8/5

So these are my thoughts upon Priyanka Chopra's memoir "Unfinished".