Alaya F felt “overwhelmed” and “grateful” after Priyanka Chopra in a recent interview said that the Freddy actress deserves to be the next Bollywood superstar.

Sharing a snippet of Priyanka’s March 11 interview at the South by Southwest Film Festival on her Instagram story, Alaya wrote, “I can't even begin to describe how overwhelmed and grateful I'm feeling!! When your most most most favourite actor picks you when asked who they think deserves to be the next Bollywood superstar, there is LITERALLY no better feeling in the world!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you @priyankachopra Going to be smiling and dancing all day,” Alaya wrote as a caption to the video.

During an interview at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Priyanka was asked who she thinks is a current Bollywood actor or actress deserving of becoming the next Bollywood superstar. The Quantico actress first took Alia Bhatt’s name and then said Alaya F could be the next superstar in India.

“I really like Alaya Furniturewala, she is Pooja Bedi's daughter. And I told her when I met her that I think she is just cool, and has a unique perspective. She is not trying to be like everyone else. I think we'll find out in a few years,” Priyanka said in the interview.

Twenty-five-year-old Alaya was last seen in Anurag Kashyap’s Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat which premiered at the Marrakech Film Festival last year. Alaya is currently working on Ekta Kapoor’s U-Turn and Rajkummar Rao-led Sri, a biopic on Srikanth Bolla.