Updated On: 15 July, 2020 02:47 PM IST | Mumbai | Partnered Content

Alabama native Priya Patel, a medical student at St. George’s Medical School, won the hearts of all judges and audience members with her charm and took home the crown for Miss India America 2015. After excelling in studies and winning the beauty pageant, Priya now wants to follow her heart and do what she’s always wanted to do. “Acting appeals to someone that wants to be so many things in the one life we are given and aspirations like doctor, pilot, actress, painter, time traveller etc take a lifetime to achieve and acting allows you to vicariously live through those characters. Its an exciting idea to behold, the magic of cinema would always draw me into their world and for a few moments I live there too.”
A dream that kept her motivated throughout her life and encouraged her to come out from major depression after her father passed away. She struggled to find herself again to fulfill her dads mantra of doing the most you can with this life, for others and then for yourself.