Deepika Padukone on Tuesday reached the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi to extend solidarity towards the students following Sunday's violence. The actress was spotted standing with the students at the Sabarmati T-point, where a public meeting was called by alumni of JNU over Sunday's violence in the varsity. She also met JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh who was injured in the violence. The meet was also attended by former JNU students like Sitaram Yechury, Kanhaiya Kumar, D. Raja and Yogendra Yadav.
While some termed it as a promotional stint for her upcoming film Chhapaak, the film fraternity supported her act. Now filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is known to speak his mind, hailed her decision to visit the JNU protests and even changed his Twitter profile photo and cover picture to one of Deepika's from the protests.
He even urged people to go watch Chhapaak on the first day and wrote, "The female of the species is, and was, and will always be the strongest of the two #DeepikaPadukone . Chhapak first day all shows . Let’s all those who stand against the violence go to @bookmyshow and show them. Make our silent statement which will be the loudest."
The female of the species is, and was, and will always be the strongest of the two #DeepikaPadukone . Chhapak first day all shows . Let’s all those who stand against the violence go to @bookmyshow and show them. Make our silent statement which will be the loudest .
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 7, 2020
Deepika's upcoming film Chhapaak is slated for a release on January 10, 2020. Directed by Meghna Gulzar, it also stars Vikrant Massey.
(Source: Twitter)
