{"id":356859,"date":"2026-08-24T04:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/priyanka-chopra-says-nick-jonas-embracing-her-indian-roots-is-essential-to-their-marriage"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:39:20","slug":"priyanka-chopra-says-nick-jonas-embracing-her-indian-roots-is-essential-to-their-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/priyanka-chopra-says-nick-jonas-embracing-her-indian-roots-is-essential-to-their-marriage","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra Says Nick Jonas Embracing Her Indian Roots Is Important to Their Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Priyanka Chopra Jonas says one part of Nick Jonas\u2019 approach to their marriage matters so much that she is not sure their relationship would work without it, his willingness to embrace where she comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the August 20 New York premiere of <em>The Cycle of Love<\/em>, Chopra was asked about Jonas\u2019 connection to her Indian culture and traditions. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019d love him if he didn\u2019t,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1435269\/priyanka-chopra-reveals-what-matters-most-in-nick-jonas-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E! News<\/a>, emphasizing the importance of respecting a partner\u2019s roots in a multicultural relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Chopra offered a much simpler answer when asked what has helped keep the couple\u2019s relationship strong nearly eight years after their wedding. \u201cBeing kind to your partner,\u201d she said, calling kindness especially important.<\/p>\n<p>The subject was fitting for the premiere she was attending. Chopra executive-produced <em>The Cycle of Love<\/em>, a documentary about Indian artist P.K. Mahanandia, who traveled roughly 6,000 miles by bicycle in 1977 to reunite with Lotta von Schedvin, the Swedish woman he loved.<\/p>\n<h2>Chopra Says Respecting a Partner\u2019s Roots Is Essential<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Priyanka Chopra Reveals What Matters Most in Her Marriage to Nick Jonas | E! News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yd5gaKKvtRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Chopra framed Jonas\u2019 embrace of Indian culture as part of a broader principle she believes matters when two people come from different backgrounds. Rather than expecting either partner to leave important traditions behind, she said there needs to be genuine respect for where the other person comes from.<\/p>\n<p>That has been visible throughout their relationship. Jonas has celebrated Hindu holidays with Chopra and their daughter, Malti Marie, participated in Indian family traditions and repeatedly traveled with his wife to India.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what keeps love strong over time, she returned to kindness rather than offering a complicated formula. She and Jonas married in December 2018 after a courtship that moved from dating to engagement and marriage within months.<\/p>\n<h2>Their Wedding Brought Both of Their Traditions Together<\/h2>\n<p>That emphasis on respecting different backgrounds was built into their wedding celebrations in India. Chopra and Jonas married at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur in December 2018, holding separate Christian and Hindu ceremonies so that both families\u2019 traditions would be represented.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural blending had begun even before the wedding. During their traditional roka ceremony in August 2018, Jonas participated in Hindu prayers led by a priest. Chopra later recalled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/priyanka-chopra-nick-jonas-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vogue interview<\/a> that the prayers were performed in Sanskrit and joked that even she could not say them as well as he did. \u201cThe Indians were so impressed with their National Jiju,\u201d Chopra said at the time, using the Hindi term for brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>She has continued to identify sincerity as another quality she values in Jonas. In a February 2026 interview with Variety, Chopra said the speed of their relationship initially made his emotional openness seem almost too genuine to believe. Over time, she came to see that sincerity as a defining part of who he is.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018The Cycle of Love\u2019 Put Another Cross-Cultural Marriage at the Center of the Night<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaiPGI0NNX7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The documentary behind Chopra\u2019s latest comments follows a far more physically demanding journey toward a cross-cultural marriage. Mahanandia met Lotta in Delhi in the 1970s after she asked him to draw her portrait. When she eventually returned to Sweden, the two maintained contact before Mahanandia set out to reach her.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977, the 23-year-old artist left India on a second-hand bicycle and traveled roughly 6,000 miles across countries and continents before eventually reuniting with Lotta in Europe. The couple went on to marry and have now been together for approximately five decades.<\/p>\n<p>Their children, Emelie Mahanandia von Schedvin and Karl Mahanandia von Schedvin, became producers on the documentary. Chopra told E! that their involvement in preserving their parents\u2019 story helped make the project particularly moving for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything about it is so heartwarming,\u201d Chopra said, describing the story as a welcome \u201cray of sunshine.\u201d She said one lesson she took from Mahanandia and Lotta\u2019s relationship was the importance of resilience and standing by the person you love.<\/p>\n<h2>Priyanka Chopra Became the Executive Producer the Filmmakers Had Wanted<\/h2>\n<p>Director Orlando von Einsiedel said Chopra\u2019s involvement arrived in an unusually fitting way. According to the filmmaker, his team had discussed her early in the project as the kind of executive producer they would ideally want behind the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>They did not initially recruit her. Von Einsiedel told E! that Chopra later saw the film herself, contacted the filmmakers and asked whether she could join the team.<\/p>\n<p>He credited her with doing substantial work to help an independent documentary secure distribution and reach audiences, saying filmmakers often have to fight not only to make such projects but also to ensure people have an opportunity to see them. <em>The Cycle of Love<\/em> opens in U.S. theaters on August 28 through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.variancefilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variance Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/priyanka-chopra-says-nick-jonas-embracing-her-indian-roots-is-essential-to-their-marriage\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priyanka Chopra Jonas says one part of Nick Jonas\u2019 approach to their marriage matters so much that she is not sure their relationship would work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4557],"tags":[2138,33047,257,1750,33044,12477,33046,33045,33043,173,33048],"class_list":["post-356859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-artist","tag-chopra","tag-delhi","tag-director","tag-emelie","tag-govt-producer","tag-indian","tag-mahanandia","tag-orlando-von-einsiedel","tag-united-states","tag-variance-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356861,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356859\/revisions\/356861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}