Exclusive! Manushi Chhillar On Being Compared To Deepika Padukone, "The Benchmark Is Already Up There..."

Manushi Chhillar will next be seen in Operation Valentine in which she plays the rold of an IAF officer. A few weeks ago, we watched Fighter in which Deepika Padukone also played the role of an IAF officer. So, after the trailer of Operation Valentine was released, people started comparing Manushi's role with Deepika. Filmibeat recently interacted with Manushi and spoke to her about the movie and more.

When asked her if she feels pressure about being compared to Deepika, the actress said, "Not really! The pressure is about playing a role like this because there's so much responsibility that comes in while portraying the role of an Air Force officer. Deepika looks fab and I think she is an amazing actor; we all look up to her. But, her role is very different from what I am doing here. It's quite nice if people are comparing; I see that as a good amount of push for me to make sure that I also do a good job like she did. I think she is flying a chopper in it, I still have to watch Fghter because I have been promoting Operation Valentine, and I have not got time to watch any film in theatres. I play the role of a radar controller. We have seen female actors playing the role of Air Force pilot, but we haven't seen them playing the radar controller as much. So, that way the role is very different."

"Talking about the look, there's an uniform, you can't create something new, there's only little bit that you can do. So, any actor if they play an air force officer character, the look will be similar. So, the look cannot be different. When someone as senior and as good as Deepika does a role, then it also sets certain benchmark which is great because you know that when the benchmark is already up there you have to kind of somewhere hit close to that, so it's good, it pushes you to grow," she added.

Operation Valentine Release Date

Operation Valentine is a bilingual which is shot in Telugu and Hindi. The film also stars Varun Tej in the lead role, and it will mark in Hindi debut. The movie is slated to hit the big screens on 1st March 2024.