Deepika Padukone: ‘I’m at an age the place I really feel loads like Piku’

Of all of the characters that Bollywood star Deepika Padukone has performed in her 15-year appearing profession, her titular position in Shoojit Sircar’s Piku holds a particular place in her coronary heart.

Padukone performed the character of a strong-headed formidable lady Piku Banerjee within the 2015 slice-of-life drama reverse megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who essayed the position of her father, and the late Irrfan Khan.

The 36-year-old actor stated she and her sister, skilled golfer Anisha Padukone, relate probably the most to Piku.

“There was something very special about the energy in that film. I feel I and my sister (Anisha) are at an age where we are Piku. There is something about Piku that is very special. And that’s one of the movies that keep coming up in conversations. The stage of life that I am at now, that seem to be my most favourite (character),” Padukone stated at an occasion right here on Thursday night time.

Deepika Padukone, recognized for delivering acclaimed performances in movies equivalent to Love Aaj Kal, Cocktail, Padmaavat and Gehraiyaan, stated in the course of the making of the movie everybody’s goal was to present their greatest. “I used to be conscious of the truth that I can be reverse these two unbelievable folks however what makes for nice collaboration is when you’re not competing along with your co-stars and you might be actually genuinely invested in telling an excellent story and that’s what we’re there to do.

“I don’t think Irrfan was trying to be one up on Mr Bachchan or he was trying to be one up on anyone. It was a beautiful collaborative process and we were invested in giving our best,” she stated.

Deepika Padukone additionally shared her expertise of battling psychological sickness. Deepika Padukone first opened about her melancholy in 2014. She stated she hopes that her story would assist different folks to sail via the robust occasions.

“For anyone who has ever experienced mental illness, it can be, I am not saying it is, it can be a lonely journey. And that’s when I realized speaking up is how I wanted to take that journey forward. It was my learning, probably my calling, where I felt like by speaking up if I am able to impact one life the purpose would be served,” she stated.

Her admission about being recognized with medical melancholy, Padukone stated, was the start of an even bigger trigger, which led to organising a basis Live Love Laugh, that creates consciousness about psychological well being. Speaking of the imaginative and prescient and mission of the inspiration, the actor stated it’s all about giving hope.

“It can be a lonely journey. We are here to say you are not alone, we are here in this together. So, giving hope to every person experiencing stress, anxiety, depression and to let you know you are not alone. And it stems, from one line, when I put my mind to it, I don’t want one life to be lost because of mental illness,” she stated.

On the movie entrance, Deepika Padukone will subsequent be seen reverse Shah Rukh Khan in Yash Raj Films’ Pathaan. The Siddharth Anand-directed movie is scheduled to be launched subsequent yr in January.