Priyanka Chopra to co-host the Oscars this year alongside Mindy Kaling

Priyanka Chopra may not be presenting at the Oscars in 2022 this year, but she is still working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on a pre-awards event that she will co-host with Mindy Kaling and Kumail Nanjiani, among others. Riz Ahmed and Gulistan Mirzaei will be among the special guests at the pre-Oscars event.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscars 2022 will take place on March 23 in Beverly Hills. The special event will bring Chopra and other incredible artists together to discuss South Asian brilliance in the film. Mindy Kaling, Kumail Nanjiani, Anjula Acharia, Bela Bajaria, Maneesh K. Goya, and Shruti Ganguly will join Priyanka. Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, and Anurima Bhargava, writers and producers of the Indian documentary Writing With Fire which has bagged the Best Documentary Feature nomination.

Suroosh Alvi, Choyning Dorji, Joseph Patel, Aneil Karia, Elizabeth Mirzaei, and Gulistan Mirzaei have also been named as special guests for the event. Priyanka Chopra, who was most recently seen in The Matrix Resurrections, has been vocal about the lack of South Asian interpretation in films for some time now, and she has also opened up about her own hardships to land roles in Hollywood that do not typecast her.

In terms of her Oscar connection, Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas previously announced the Oscar nominees for 2021. The actress has previously served as a presenter at the 2016 ceremony.