Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone is anger on the local journalists there who have oftenly called her Priyanka. The video of that went viral some months ago showing her exiting Los Angeles airport where the journalists shouting ‘Priyanka’, ‘Priyanka’.
Deepika, who made her Hollywood debut with the Vin Diesel Starrer “xXx: Return of Xander Cage.” earlier this year.
On Friday, the actress said that being mistaken for her colleague – not once, but several times – is ‘offensive, ignorant and racist’ for the people to assume that people with same skin tones are the same.
“To me, it’s racist and ignorant. And as a fellow Indian, you (the media) should also be not very happy about. I think just because people have similar skin tones doesn’t mean they are same people.
As people in a place of power that the media has, instead of creating a tabloid piece out of it, people should be educating them further.”
Deepika attended the famed fashion fiesta Met Gala 2017 in New York, Deepika is now looking forward to visit the French Riviera. She will attend the prestigious Cannes Film Festival on May 17-18 as a brand ambassador for cosmetic giant L’Oreal Paris.
I am very very excited. I am looking forward to the entire experience of being there and taking it all in.” said the actress.
I would happily forget that experience may be, and start afresh,” she added.
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Deepika said,” I’ve had an amazing team of people that help me put my look together, and sometimes people might like it, sometimes they may not. And that’s completely okay. The idea is really to have fun with every experience that I’ve had and I think the only time I will worry about not being appreciated about my look, is when my mother or my girlfriends tell me so.”
What is the red carpet without having fun? I know there is a lot of focus on the clothes, the hair and the makeup, but from all of that, I think the most important thing is that everyone who walks that red carpet must have fun with all of that and that experience.
I think that’s an achievement in itself.” Said Deepika, adding,” But having said that, I think for me the two things are completely different. I feel proud that we have Indians who can represent not just at Cannes, but the world over who represent us as a community and as a country in different walks of life.
“Yes, being an actor, one always looks forward to a film going to Cannes as well. In fact, Sanjay (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and I have been speaking about it for years. We wanted to take ‘Bajirao Mastani’ to Cannes. When it comes to taking Indian films to Cannes, he has done it in the past (‘Devdas’) and he has done it beautifully,” said the actress of Padmavati.