Deepika Padukone and her life as an actress

The following video is an interview made by Anupama Chopra to the Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, such interview is going to be cut into two parts, where you are going to listen to Deepika’s opinion about different issues (like about her job, personal life, and so on).

Instruction

Firstly, you have to watch the next video once (or twice) and then, you should answer ten questions about it. Such questions will be in multiple-choice style. In the end, you will find feedback with the correct answer for each question.

The next video will help you to answer the 5 first questions.

Remember, you just have to choose one option from three.

1. How does she consider herself?

As a bumbling and shy person
As a shy and awkward person
As a shy and quiet person

2. What is the “biggest mistake” that she described she committed in front of the screens?

That she wasn’t conscious that she was very shy to be an actress
That she felt more comfortable off-camera than in front of it
That she carried her shyness in front of the camera unconsciously

3. In what movie did she realize that her shyness was noticeable in her performance as an actress?

Cocktail
Love Aaj Kal
Padmaavat

4. According to Deepika Padukone, this is the reason why she is a shy and awkward person:

Because of the culture of her country
Because she didn’t have too much interaction with her parents
Because of the way her parents brought her

5. How many years has Deepika Padukone been working as a professional actress?

10
6
8

This second part of the video will help you to answer questions from 6 to 10.

6. How does the interviewer (Anupama Chopra) describe social media?

As a dangerous world
As a beast
As something not useful

7. What is the upside that social media has; but also, what is its disadvantage according to Deepika?

Social media brought the world together/It isolates us from the people
Social media makes us feel closer with relatives/We can’t use it in moderation
Social media has replaced TV/We don’t know how to interact with strangers

8. What are the two activities that Deepika prefers to do when she wants to be “productive” instead of being on Instagram?

To read and cook
To read or stay in her bedroom
To read or clean her house

9. What is Deepika’s position about discrimination against women in the film industry?

That needs to stop now because it has been a strong issue since women work in the film industry and other jobs.
That discrimination should be gender-neutral and not only for women because she believes men deserve to be protected as well.
She believes that it is an important issue that she would like to change in her country and worldwide.

10. Adding more about the past question (number 9), Deepika Padukone said that:

Discrimination should be a battle between males and females.
It shouldn’t be a battle male versus female, but what is right versus wrong.
That discrimination shouldn’t be a battle, but a fight.

Compare your answers with the correct ones and check how many correct answers you had.

The correct answers to the questions are:

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1. As a Shy and awkward person
2. That she carried her shyness in front of the camera unconsciously
3. Cocktail
4. Because of the way her parents brought her
5. 10
6. As a beast
7. Social media brought the world together/It isolates us from the people
8. To read or clean her house
9. That discrimination should be gender-neutral and not only for women because she believes men deserved to be protected as well.
10. It shouldn’t be a battle male versus female, but what is right versus wrong.

If you want you can re-watch the video for more practice of her/his accent or move on to the next activity.

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Film Companion. (2018, April 4th). Deepika Padukone Interview With Anupama Chopra | Padmaavat | Film Companion [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/BHWrsTWR0xA

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