‘Everything boils down to the script’

Actress Deepika Padukone, who was last seen on screen in Padmaavat, says everything boils down to the script for a film to work at the box-office. “I think it’s amazing and nice for us to say that women-centric or female-centric films are working at a moment like this when we are talking about female role models. Having said that, when it comes to creativity, we need to look beyond female or male,” said the actress. Deepika added that for her everything boils down to a film script.

“It’s about the film. Everything boils down to the script itself. But yes, I see a trend where films that are being led by women are doing much better,” she said.

She added that filmmakers now are more open to making female-driven films. “We are in place today where directors are changing roles and that’s unheard of. If you have a script that has a male protagonist and suddenly directors are like, ‘Let me just flip that. Let me just make that female protagonist and then go to so and so with the film’ so, you hear of a film that was offered to a male actor two-three years ago and its coming back to you now with a female protagonist, which is a huge achievement,” she said.

Ranveer ready to take ‘legendary’ Deepika Padukone’s surname

Recently, the news of Ranveer thinking of adding Padukone to his name went viral; to which Ranveer replied: “Since I have dropped my surname, I need a new one, so why not! It’s a legendary surname.”  Deepika, in another interview, said, “When I was asked I was like ‘oh, we haven’t even thought about it. Also, I’ve worked extremely hard to create my identity and so has he. So my question is, ‘why would he have to do that?”

— IANS