Priyanka Chopra Announces Ventilator Sequel On 10 Year Anniversary (Image credit: Instagram) Varanasi star Priyanka Chopra is looking back on her journey as a producer in Indian cinema with her banner, Purple Pebble Pictures. The actress launched her production house in 2016 with the Bhojpuri film Bam Bam Bol Raha Hai Kashi and the Marathi feature Ventilator. To celebrate a decade as a producer, Priyanka announced the sequel to the award-winning film Ventilator, written and directed by Rajesh Mapuskar. She also teased that the banner would be coming back with lots more projects in the future. Ventilator 2 is expected to be released in 2027. On Instagram, Priyanka Chopra celebrated her decade as a producer in the Indian film industry with a Reel announcing Ventilator 2. She wrote, "10 years ago, with @purplepebblepictures, I decided I want to tell stories that mean something. Ventilator was one of those very important stories to us at the company. A decade later, we’re coming back to it, with so much more..." Writer-director Mapuskar joins Priyanka and her mother Dr Madhu Chopra as producer on the sequel. The film will release in 2027. The award-winning Marathi film featured an ensemble of over 100 actors. The cast was led by Ashutosh Gowariker and also included actors Jitendra Joshi, Sulbha Arya, Sukanya Kulkarni, Viju Khote, Shashank Shende, Usha Nadkarni, Abhijeet Chavan and Boman Irani, among others. Priyanka also had a cameo in the film as herself. The Marathi film was remade in Gujarati with actor Jackie Shroff in September 2018; a Malayalam remake was also in the works. The feature follows the Kamerkar family, whose oldest member, Gajju Kaka, falls into a coma ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations. After he is put on a medical ventilator in Mumbai hospital, his very large family visits, trying to figure out how his death will affect them all. Ventilator won a slew of awards after its release, including three National Film Awards for Best Director, Best Editing and Best Sound Mixing. After its inception, Purple Pebble Pictures has released a number of films in several Indian languages, including Punjabi, Assamese, and Hindi. It even produced the English-language films Evil Eye (2020), The White Tiger (2020), the Oscar-nominated short film Anuja (2025) and the Priyanka starrer The Bluff (2026) for Amazon Prime Video. Priyanka was also an executive producer on JioHotstar's Hunkkaar, starring Aneet Padda and Fatima Sana Shaikh. Sonal Pandya has grown up on a steady diet of Bollywood and Hollywood musicals, subtitled foreign films and American sitcoms. When not trying to keep ... View More