Before the Argentina vs. France World Cup last started in December of final yr, Deepika Padukone unveiled the official FIFA World Cup trophy on the Lusail Stadium in Qatar. The actor turned the primary Indian to unveil the FIFA trophy. Deepika Padukone joined the presenters on the ninety fifth Academy Awards slightly over two months later. This yr’s grand occasion additionally featured Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael B. Jordan as presenters. While receiving thunderous applause, Deepika Padukone launched the efficiency of RRR’s Naatu Naatu and made a particular point out of the tune.
But the Bollywood celebrity is basically the third Indian to current on the Academy Awards.
Persis Khambatta, who was born in Bombay, was the primary Indian to be invited to current an award, and she or he took the stage to take action in 1980 for the Best Feature-Length Documentary Film honour. Khambatta, the third Indian girl to compete within the Miss Universe pageant and the  winner of Femina Miss India in 1965, is most identified for her function as Lieutenant Ilia within the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. At the age of 49 in 1988, the actor and mannequin sadly handed away from a coronary heart assault.
Priyanka Chopra was the second Indian to current an Oscar in 2016. Together with Tina Fey, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, and J.Ok. Simmons, she was part of the presenters. Liev Schreiber, an American actor and filmmaker, joined Priyanka on stage as she introduced the Achievement in Film Editing nominees.