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However, a section of the Internet was not very happy with her promotional stunt and thought that recreating acid attack survivor Malti’s look from her recently-released film Chhapaak is “insensitive.”
“The problem with Deepika Padukone endorsing a makeup challenge on Chhapak is that she treated it as one of her ‘looks’ and dismissed the entire trauma behind it. She proved that it was merely makeup for her and she clearly doesn’t understand the depth of what survivors go through,” wrote a Twitter user.
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Another Twitter user schooled the actress about how the film was not about her make-up and that it was about a “woman scarred for life.” An excerpt from her tweet read: “This promo isn’t cool or cute. It’s insensitive and ghastly.”