Deepika Breaks The Silence On 'My Choice'

When leading Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone decided to star in the 2-minute short film on women equality, she would have barely thought that the film would irk many a people on social media despite being accepted and applauded by some.

However, in a recent event, she broke her silence and said that the film was “the need of the hour.”

"I think the generic reason would be that it is the need of the hour. I don't think we have made this film saying 'this film is for India'. I think we are facing this issue globally. And Homi has given me films like ‘Cocktail’ and ‘Finding Fanny’. He sees me very, very differently,” the actress was quoted saying.

"The film wasn't my choice. It's sad that we have to sit and talk about gender equality in 2015. It's like a joke. So, any woman who breaks those barriers and lives on her own terms, like Deepika and my over-empowered wife (Anaita), I think that's the sign of it," said the director Homi Adajania, whose wife Anaita Shroff Adajania is the fashion director for Vogue India, the brand for which the video was made.

Titled ‘My Choice’, this is the third video in the Vogue Empower series. The earlier two videos had Alia Bhatt ('Going Home' directed by Vikas Bahl) and Madhuri Dixit ('Start With The Boys' directed by Vinil Mathew) giving out the message of gender equality and were received very well.

The latest reaction on this video has come from Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha, who said at an event that “Women empowerment is not always about the kind of clothes you wear, not about who you want to have sex with or stuff like that. It's about employment, strength."

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