Mumbai: In 2018, a video went viral in which a girl was seen winking to a boy in style. The country went mad for the girl. Her name was Priya Prakash Varrier born September 12, 1999.
In the video, Priya was seen sitting while Roshan was standing and staring at her. Suddenly both of them see eye to eye with Roshan gesturing. After that Priya also responded in the same fashion but Priya’s response made everyone go crazy. At the same time, this short clip injured every young man’s heart.
The clip was from Malayalam film Oru Adar Love on her Instagram. The film was based on college life.
Priya’s popularity was not limited to the common people. Priya instantly became a talking point amongst Hindi film industry stars, cricketers and politicians. So much so that she even became more popular than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in terms of following.
At that time she had a following of 4.5 million while Zuckerberg had four million.
Priya’s famous wink had gotten her close to even Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of 6,50,000 followers on Instagram in 24 hours. Since then she has always been in the news and has left many well known heroines of the Hindi film industry behind.
It is worth mentioning that Kylie Jenner enjoys the lead for having most followers in a 24-hour time frame on Instagram.
On the work front, Priya’s first Hindi film Sridevi Bungalow is going on in full swing. The film features Aseem Ali Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Mukesh Rishi, Dinesh Lamba and Sandeep Bharadwaj in lead.
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