Meghna
Gulzar
is
one
proud
director
as
even
before
the
release
of
her
forthcoming
film,
Chhapaak,
the
lady
is
being
praised
hugely
by
netizens
and
B-town
celebs
including
Aamir
Khan
and
Alia
Bhatt.
In
fact,
Kangana
Ranaut's
sister,
Rangoli
Chandel,
who
herself
is
an
acid-attack
survivor,
praised
Deepika
Padukone
and
Meghna
for
Chhapaak's
trailer
and
wished
them
all
the
best.
Chhapaak
is
loosely
based
on
Delhi's
acid-attack
survivor,
Laxmi
Agarwal.
When
Meghna
was
asked
what
made
her
rope
in
Deepika
for
Laxmi's
portrayal,
the
Raazi
director
told
Mumbai
Mirror,
"For
me,
it
was
important
to
take
a
face
associated
with
beauty
because
when
you
distort
it,
like
it
would
happen
to
a
survivor,
the
contrast
and
impact
is
far
stronger.
Not
everybody
is
Deepika
Padukone,
but
these
other
girls
were
beautiful
too
and
didn't
deserve
this
to
happen
to
them.
No
girl
deserves
it
going
forward.
I'm
fortunate
Deepika
agreed
to
play
the
part."
She
also
added
that
during
her
research,
she
discovered
that
Laxmi
Agarwal's
pictures
before
the
attack
were
strikingly
similar
to
Deepika
Padukone's
when
she
was
young.
There
is
an
uncanny
similarity
in
their
physicality
which
shows
up
in
the
prosthetics
and
that
was
Meghna's
starting
point.
Meghna
further
continued,
"Then
came
the
larger
thought
of
the
impact
of
the
message
which
would
get
magnified
with
her
in
the
lead
as
Malti
(who
is
fashioned
after
Laxmi).
The
idea
wasn't
to
make
Deepika
look
like
Laxmi,
but
to
make
her
look
like
what
she'd
have
looked,
God
forbid,
if
something
like
this
happened
to
her.
The
essence
of
Deepika
is
still
there,
particularly
in
her
eyes."
Chhapaak
also
casts
Vikrant
Massey
in
the
lead,
who
will
be
seen
fighting
alongside
Malti
for
justice.
The
movie
is
all
set
to
hit
the
theatres
on
January
10,
2020.