"Chapak" director: Deepika Padukone was my solely alternative

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The film, "Chappac", screens the survivor of the acid assault, who fights society and rises above her struggles after a person attacked her with acid on her face for refusing to marry and marry him. The character performed Deepika Padukone that Meghna says was the one film alternative.

“Deepika was my solely alternative due to the bodily similarities between her and Laxmi,” she says. The director explains that Lakshmi was 15 years previous when she was attacked, and that images of Deepika on the age of 20-22 made me really feel that she would obtain the imaginative and prescient I wished. ”

The Indian director Meghna Gulzar addressed the 'very widespread' difficulty of acid assaults in Indian society, via her newest art work Chappak, which is the autobiography of younger Laxmi Agarwal, probably the most thrilling story that has rocked Indian society.

"The place to begin was the topic of violence and never Lakshmi Agarwal, as a result of the frequency of those assaults was excessive once I was searching for a topic for my movie," Gulzar revealed why she had made a film on the topic.

"I started to understand that that is one thing that occurs as incessantly as rape, if no more than it, however it has not been adequately addressed," she mentioned.