Chhapaak: Deepika's schoolgirl avatar goes viral

A new poster of Chhapaak which shows Deepika Padukone as a schoolgirl has taken the internet by storm.

Mumbai: After different poster updates of Deepika Padukone starrer Chhapaak, a new picture is doing rounds on the internet. The still shows the Tamasha actor as a schoolgirl, giving a glimpse of Malti, an acid attack survivor, before she was subjected to the tragedy.

She looked adorable in the school uniform, donning a navy blue salwar with a white dupatta. The actor's simplicity portrays her innocence standing beside a schoolboy.

The film is inspired by the real-life iron-willed survivor Laxmi Agarwal. It narrates her journey, from the spot where she lay unconscious after the attack, to the hospital, her medical treatment, battling the unwelcoming reaction from the society, mental trauma, self-acceptance and moving on.

Helmed by Meghna Gulzar, the flick is produced by her as well as Deepika Padukone in collaboration with Fox Star Studios.

Besides, the flick has landed into legal soup after a writer named Rakesh Bharti has claimed that the story of the film is written by him.

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Bharti, the petitioner, has now approached the Bombay High Court and has said that he should be given his due credit as one of the writers of the film, based on the life of Laxmi Agarwal, an acid attack survivor.

According to bollywoodhungama.com, Bharti's suit claimed that he had conceived an idea/script for a movie, which he had tentatively titled as Black Day, and got it registered with the Indian Motion Pictures Producers' Association (IMPPA) in February 2015.

Chhapaak is all set to hit the screens on January 10, 2020.