Women's Day 2018: Deepika Padukone and Guneet Monga feature on Variety's international list
Women's Day 2018: Deepika Padukone and Guneet Monga feature on Variety's international list
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Deepika Padukone featured in an international list named Variety International Women’s Impact Report 2018. The list also featured other celebrities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Deepika has been ranked at 33 on the list that featured 50 celebrities.

A fan club twitter account of the actress first broke the news on their twitter handle which Deepika shared on her handle later.

“Honoured & humbled joining these amazing achievers! Thank You,” she wrote on the micro-blogging site.

The Padmavat actor was featured on the list for her work in creating awareness about mental illness and withstanding death threats during the Padmavat controversy which happened before film’s release. Her bio on the Variety International Women’s Impact Report 2018 stated, “The star of the recent Bollywood blockbuster "Padmaavat" faced death threats and verbal abuse from various fringe groups with poise and elan. Deepika Padukone, whose father, Prakash, was a star badminton player, used to participate in the sport before becoming a model. She is now one of the highest-paid Indian actresses and has made the leap from Bollywood movies such as Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express to Hollywood titles including xXx: Return of Xander Cage last year. She is also philanthropically active, starting her own Live Laugh Love Foundation, which focuses on mental illness”  

The list also features Indian film producer Guneet Monga, CEO Sikhya Entertainment, formerly known as Anurag Kashyap Films Private Limited. She has co-produced path-breaking films like Gangs of Wasseypur-Part I, Peddlers, and The Lunchbox. She was ranked at 30 on the list. Her bio read:

“While female Indian producers are rare, Monga says she actually enjoys people saying no; she just keeps finding creative ways to bring stories to life. “You have to see it through till the end and be inspired about it,” says the head of Sikhya Entertainment. Besides Hindi-language films such as “The Lunchbox,” she produced “The Ashram,” starring Melissa Leo and Kal Penn, which premiered this week. “There have been several times where I have not been taken seriously and have had to work twice as hard just because I am a young woman, but I have never let that affect my state of mind towards the end goal of putting together the stories we need to tell.”

The list also features celebrities like Gal Godot, Salma Hayek, Emma Watson, Guneet Monga, and JK Rowling among others.

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