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Bollywood star Deepika Padukone on her emotional journey filming Chhapaak, the story of a teenage acid attack survivor

It was a shocking crime: after a teenage girl resisted a man’s advances, acid was thrown onto her face, disfiguring her.How Laxmi Agarwal responded to that 2005 attack inspired Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone and director Meghna Gulzar to make the movie Chhapaak (meaning “splash”), which opens in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East on January 10.“What I needed to tell in this story was her triumph,” says Padukone. “I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Laxmi,…

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