Deepika Padukone’s filmography for the coming year is quite impressive as she headlines big projects alongside Hrithik Roshan (Fighter), Prabhas (Project K) and Shah Rukh Khan (Pathan), among others. She will also be seen in the remake of The Intern that she is also producing. But before that, she is set to take over the screens with Shakun Batra’s Gehraiyaan, which will stream on Amazon Prime Video. The film marks her first project with the director. In a chat with Anupama Chopra, Deepika Padukone, who has collaborated with Sanjay Leela Bhansali in three of his films, spoke about how Shakun’s working process is so different than that of SLB. In fact, she stated that anyone who has worked on a Shankun Batra’s set is qualified enough to step inside SLB’s world of cinema.

“We basically say or I have started saying to him now that if you work with Shakun Batra, you can work on a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film because he’s just not happy. I am joking about the complaining part of it but I love his process because it’s exhausting. Literally from the time you are on the set to the time you leave, actors are on their feet the whole time, except the lunch break,” Deepika said, adding that the whole process was extremely ‘nimble,’ which urged her to know her lines so well that the setting or director’s last-minute changes wouldn’t throw her off guard.