Deepika Padukone is currently enjoying her golden period in Bollywood with back to back blockbusters like Jawan and Pathaan and her recent release Fighter is also receiving positive response from the audience. The actress has been a big female presence in her three releases. Here’s what she said when questioned about being a part of male-centric actioners.
In a media interaction, when asked about being a part of male centric actioners, Deepika Padukone said, “Yeah sure, wait for Shakti Shetty!” referring to Rohit Shetty’s big-screen female cop universe film to be headlined by her.
The actress further added that there is a need to change the definition of feminism and said, “But to complete my thought, you never anyway never do anything alone. I don’t think women can succeed without men and men can’t succeed without women. I think we need to rephrase the definition of feminism.”
The actress also talked about if after doing such massy films, she has space for doing a Piku and she replied, “The space is there, the writers have to write. It will happen, I think it is just a matter of time. Post COVID, everyone felt a bit rattled. It was a new experience everyone was coming out of and we made a lot of assumptions about where we are headed. We are jumping too soon in this journey of what’s working, what’s not working, that only big budgets films (are working). Actors service a script, a director. You invest in stories, you invest in characters, you invest in people, you invest in the journey.”
Helmed by Siddharth Anand, Fighter stars Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover and Akshay Oberoi along with others in key roles. The film has hit the theatres on January 25 and received positive response from the audience.
Meanwhile, After Fighter, Deepika Padukone will be next seen in the movie Kalki 2898 AD which also stars Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Disha Patani and Kamal Haasan along with others. The film is scheduled to hit the theatres on May 9. She also has Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again in the pipeline which is set for a theatrical release on August 15.
