Deepika Padukone Teams Up With STX Films For A Global Romantic Comedy

By News Helpline – 31st August 2021

Deepika Padukone will soon be teaming up with STX Films to develop a romantic comedy for global Indian audience. She will produce the film under her home banner Ka Productions.

Deepika just took to her social media and dropped the confirmation on the project. She shared, “World renowned performer and producer @deepikapadukone is teaming up with STXfilms to bring her next #RomCom to audiences around the globe. #TempleHillProductions #TempleHillEntertainment #STXfilms #KaProductions #DeepikaPadukone”

The studio is also in negotiations with Temple Hill Productions Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen (the Twilight franchise, The Fault in Our Stars, "Love, Simon") to develop the project, which will be a sweeping cross-cultural romantic comedy centred around Padukone.

The actor made her English language film debut as the female lead in XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, co-starring with Vin Diesel. She is also the principal of Ka Productions, the production company behind Chhapaak and upcoming films The Intern and ’83. She is currently in production on Shakun Batra’s and Siddharth Anand’s untitled films.

Prior to this, Padukone starred in the critically acclaimed film Chhapaak based on the life of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. She also played the titular role in Padmavaat which broke all box office records. Other credits include the award-winning and critically acclaimed films Piku and Baijaro Mastani, the highest and third highest grossing international Hindi language film releases, respectively.