Mumbai: Deepika Padukone, whose much awaited film Padmaavat finally released Thursday, is confident that the movie will create box office records. The actor, who plays the titular role in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed period drama, said she is overwhelmed by the response the film has received till now.
The movie was shown to journalists in Delhi and Mumbai January 23. “I am extremely overwhelmed and emotional right now. I think this film has been through so much. To see that the film is finally releasing and to see the kind of reactions that the film is getting, reactions to my performance, it is extremely overwhelming,” she told reporters here last night.
The actor was speaking at the red carpet of Hindustan Time’s ‘India’s Most Stylish’’ award here. Padmaavat, which also features Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, has been mired in controversy since last year when Bhansali started filming the project in Rajashtan and was roughed up by the members of Rajput Karni Sena.
The Rajput group had claimed that the film distorts history and defames their queen Padmavati as well as Rajput pride. The movie was earlier scheduled to be released December 1. However, the makers, Viacom 18 and Bhansali Productions, had to postpone the date as they did not receive a censor certificate.
PTI