Movies in Bollywood have now taken a different era, movies like Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, starring Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao in the lead roles, addressed the problems homosexuals face. Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, one of Ayushmann Khurrana’s upcoming ventures, will also revolve around the same subject.

And while Hindi cinema is now feeling free in the truest sense of the word, Bollywood celebs, too, are openly speaking about homosexual relationships.

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 Deepika Padukone, in a recent interview, shared her views on the same and said, “It feels strange to me that we even have to ask that question and the fact that we need to address it. We should not even allow ourselves to even be in this place where somebody else dictates how and with whom you want to spend the rest of your lives.”

On the film front, the actress was last seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period drama Padmaavat. The high-budgeted venture, co-starring Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor, went on to gross over Rs 302 crore at the domestic box-office to become the biggest box-office hit of Deepika’s career.

Deepika took a long break post-Padmaavat, thanks to her wedding with Ranveer Singh in November last year. Earlier this year, she began shooting for Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, a social drama based on the life of acid-attack survivor Laxmi Aggarwal.

Vikrant Massey plays the male lead in the film. It is scheduled to hit the screens on January 10 next year. At the box-office, it will lock horns with the Ajay Devgn-starring Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior.