Chhapaak(Trailer) – The Untold Story Review

Deepika Padukone’s special project “CHHAPAAK” trailer is out and had millions of views in 24 hours, here is all you want to know about the movie.

Chhapaak, An Hindi drama film which is directed by Megha Gulzar(last directed film “RAAZI“) & produced by Deepika Padukone herself.
The film would be a portrayal of the life of Lakshmi Aggarwal, an acid attack survivor,who is a renowned Women rights activist and supporter of #stop acid attack Of INDIA. Laksmi’s role will be played by Deepika Padukone as Malti(A fictionalized character)alongside with Vikrant Massey as Amol.

The film would be a classic portrayal of the brutal patriarchal society of men in our country and people’s perception of external beauty rather than the internal beauty of humankind.
Chhapaak trailer released on Human Rights Day of our country and had been watched by millions of people across the world.

Plot–

The movie will be set in the year 2005 when Lakshmi (played by Deepika Padukone) was 15 & was going to her music class in khan market Delhi, where her 32 year old boyfriend named Nadeem khan whom she had already dumped a few months before, was boiling in his anger and was continuously stalking Lakshmi everywhere and forcing her to marry him.
Eventually, Nadeem had plotted a plan with his brother’s girlfriend to take all beauty from Lakshmi by throwing a very strong acid on her face and other parts of her body.
Nadeem was successful in his cruel plan and thought Lakshmi’s life will end as her only tool “beauty” is taken by him but fortunately his plans failed and this incident helped Lakshmi emerge stronger than ever.

The film would have a strong reflection of a women’s both dark & bright side and eventually her acceptance towards who she is the ultimate happiness one can have.
Filmmaker Meghna said in an interview that She wanted “Deepika to play an acid attack survivor in chhapaak, she wanted a face associated with beauty when you distort it, as it would happen to a survivor, the contrast and impact is far stronger. Not everybody is Deepika, but these other girls were beautiful too & didn’t deserve this to happen.” She further she said ” During our research, we concluded that Laskhmi’s pictures before the attack were similar to Deepika when she was young, there is an uncanny similarity in them physically which shows up in the prosthetics leader thought magnified with her lead as Malti”
“The idea wasn’t to move Deepika look like lakshmi but to make look what she’d looked, god forbid to her. The essence is still their particularly in her eyes”.

Tweets & Social media:

Famous actor and actress of film fraternity including Amir Khan, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Yami Gautam and many more took a tool of social media to congratulate Deepika and crew of the film chhapaak as a modern & moving movie of the 21st century.

Alia wrote on her Instagram handle”Great trailer & such an important movie! my congratulations & best wishes to Meghna, Deepika, Vikrant,fox & entire team” in response Deepika wrote, “Thank you so much Aaloo B.”
Amir khan shared his feelings and tweeted “You girls are special” and congratulated the whole cast and crew.
In a recent promotion for the film, Deepika broke down emotionally into tears and stated Chhapaak as the most special and beautiful film in her acting carrier till now.
The film is releasing on 10, January 2020 and will likely be a huge success and an important movie of 2020.