‘To Kill a Tiger’, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja’s documentary about sexual assault survivor in rural India, is nominated in best documentary feature category at Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Chopra Jonas (41) who signed on as an executive producer ahead of its March 10 streaming premiere on Netflix, has multiple reasons to “Catapult conversation that this film starts,” as actress exclusively tells PEOPLE.

“I seek and attach myself to work that really pushes conversations of issues that I feel close to or passionate about and sexual violence against women definitely is one of them,” says founder of production company Purple Pebble Pictures.

“In India, we say one-third of women in India have experienced sexual violence and that statistic has to be higher because of underreporting.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 12 2024

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