Deepika Padukone curbs Paris plan over coronavirus outbreak

Actress Deepika Padukone has called off her plans to attend the ongoing Paris Fashion Week owing to the global coronavirus outbreak.

The actress was invited by luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton to attend their show at the Paris Fashion Week, which is due to run till March 3. Padukone had to cancel her trip due to the recent developments about the growing coronavirus epidemic.

“Deepika Padukone was scheduled to travel to France to attend Louis Vuitton’s FW2020 show at the ongoing Paris Fashion Week but has had to cancel her trip with news coming in that the coronavirus epidemic has now entered a new stage in France,” said an official spokesperson for the actress.

The actress will next be seen in ‘83’ as Romi Dev. ‘83’ traces Kapil Dev’s captaincy in leading the Indian cricket team to defeat the West Indies in the World Cup final in 1983. Ranveer Singh will essay Dev’s role in the film, directed by Kabir Khan and produced by Reliance Entertainment.

She will also be seen in the official Hindi remake of the Robert De Niro-Anne Hathaway starrer Hollywood comedy hit, ‘The Intern’. It also stars Rishi Kapoor, and is slated to release in 2021.

Padukone started the year with the critically-acclaimed film ‘Chhapaak’, in which she played an acid attack survivor. The film was based on the life of real-life acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. The actress also turned producer with ‘Chhapaak’

There has been talk that Padukone is signing on for the next installment of the superhero franchise ‘Krish’. While Padukone has not confirmed the news, she was recently quoted as saying that she would love to work with lead star Hrithik Roshan in future. The two have never worked together in a film. — With additional inputs from Bindu Rai