Chopra remembered 'fooling around with a camera' and delivering lines by the character Geet from the film Jab We Met, never expecting producer Aditya Chopra to see the tape.
When Parineeti Chopra told Sharma she was leaving her job to attend acting school he advised her to meet the company's casting director, who asked her to do a 'dummy audition for fun'. Appalled by the idea of recruiting someone from his marketing team as an actress, the vice-president refused.
Film director Maneesh Sharma suggested signing Chopra to Aditya Chopra, chairman of Yash Raj Films. While working on promotions for Band Baaja Baaraat, Chopra realised that she wanted to become an actress and decided to resign from her executive position with Yash Raj Films to attend acting school.