Mumbai: Deepika Padukone is one of the finest actors in the Hindi film industry. The stunning diva is well known for her refined acting skills apart from her gorgeous persona and stunning smile. As an artist we have seen her taking challenging roles and bringing them alive on screen. Appearing once again in an all new avatar, Deepika is currently promoting her upcoming movie ‘Gehraiyaan’, which will stream online from February 11, 2021.
In the trailer of movie, we can see a few intimate scenes that have caught everyone’s attention and now, Deepika Padukone has spoken about them. While talking to a leading media house, the 36-year-old said that the intimate scenes in the movie are not to “titillate or to excite the audience.”
Talking about the intimate scenes, she said, “I won’t attribute it to age and even to gender. If that’s something happening generically, then I would say, fine. But I wouldn’t say that younger filmmakers have a certain sensibility or the female directors have a certain sensibility, I would attribute it from person to person. And I would 100 percent say that, if a film like ‘Gehraiyaan’ wasn’t in the hands of a director like Shakun, either I would do the film and not be able to submit to it, in the way I have. If the director insisted it had to be done a certain way, then I would probably just excuse myself from it.”
“If there’s intimacy, you know that it’s not to titillate or to excite the audience. It’s coming from a very authentic place of what the characters are experiencing and what the film requires. If the film was in anyone else’s hand, then in all probability, I wouldn’t have done it. I would probably push back on certain things,” said Deepika Padukone adding that a lot of things that she was been able to do in the film are based on the “comfort and trust” that she has in Shakun Batra.
Helmed by Shakun Batra, ‘Gehraiyaan’ also features Ananya Panday, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and Dhairya Karwa in lead roles.
‘Gehraiyaan’ is based on the concept of modern-day relationships and infidelity. In the film, Deepika Padukone’s character Alisha and Siddhant Chaturvedi’s character Zain cheat on their respective partners and also share some intimate scenes.
Apart from ‘Gehraiyaan’, Deepika also has ‘Fighter’ opposite Hrithik Roshan, ‘Pathan’ with Shah Rukh Khan, and Nag Ashwin’s next with ‘Prabhas’ in her kitty.