Pooja Chopra Wins The Times Most Powerful Women Award 2017!

Pooja Chopra Wins The Times Most Powerful Women Award 2017!
Times Power Women of the Year 2017, was an event that saw felicitations of women to acknowledge their contribution towards society in heterogeneous fields of work.

Pooja Chopra received the Times Powerful Woman 2017 award for her contribution in the field of Acting. She dedicated her award to her mother Neera Chopra who is the driving force and has the biggest hand in raising and shaping Pooja as the woman she is today. This move was unexpected by her mother and she couldn’t control her emotions. She was speechless when called upon stage to receive the award with tears in her eyes. Beauty, fashion, strength, influential, high spirited mother, and a wife, are the words that describe Pooja best.
Pooja was born and brought up in the city of Pune. She has completed her education in the city and it was also the place where she first decided that she wanted to pursue Modelling and acting as a career. Right from her school days when she won Miss Mount Carmel to her college days, where she won various titles, she has always been the face of Pune city. She was overwhelmed when her city awarded her for her exemplary hard work and contribution towards the field of acting and for putting Pune on a map. 

Crowned as the Femina Miss India in 2009 she was also a semi-finalist at Miss World 2009 and won the Beauty with a purpose award, at Miss World 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa Pooja Chopra has won as many as 8 national and international titles in a single year.
Pooja Chopra has also featured in Times 50 Most Beautiful Women at No. 28. Bollywood films, Commando, Fashion and Heroine are a few to her credit. She was also the lead in Neeraj Pandey’s popular short film “Ouch,” a dramatic love story. She has also been associated as the beauty director and talent partner with the Femina Miss India.

Next she will be seen playing the role of Captain Maya Semwal in Neeraj Pandey's next Aiyaary that will be releasing on 9th February 2018.