Talking to The Times of India earlier than leaving for Cannes, Deepika shared how she feels the strains between Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam cinema are lastly fading away in India. She mentioned, “I think, earlier, we worked in isolation – there was a Hindi film industry, a Telugu film industry, a Tamil industry and a Malayalam industry… And now those guardrails are coming down.” In the actor’s opinion, there may be extra “cross-cultural acceptance, as there should be.”
Deepika is part of the nine-member jury on the Cannes Film Festival — 4 girls and 5 males, who will collectively determine which film will take dwelling the highest prize. On Monday, she reached Cannes and attended the jury dinner earlier than strolling the purple carpet.
In the interview, the Bajirao Mastani star additionally identified how throughout her early days within the movie business, she felt misplaced since she did not watch many motion pictures. When she used to satisfy her business buddies they’d make references about movies they’d watched, which had been utterly “alien” to her.
“My life growing up was very different. I was at the badminton court, and it was a very structured and disciplined life, in that sense. There was no time for movies,” Deepika mentioned, including that earlier, she used to look at just one or two movies in a 12 months and now she has quite a lot of “catching up to do”.
Up subsequent, Deepika has Pathaan, during which she will likely be seen in a lead function together with Shah Rukh Khan. She additionally has the Bollywood remake of The Intern and Hrithik Roshan-starrer Fighter within the pipeline.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
