It is learnt that Shruti Haasan was approached by the makers earlier to do the special song, which did not work out for some reasons.

Indian women recreate Deepika’s memorable performance of the Padmaavat song in London.

Apart from these, the list also includes mainstream films - Mahanati, Salman Khan's Tiger Zinda Hai and Raazi.

Both the Sribhumi Sporting Club and the Md Ali Park puja committees modelled their pandals on the famous Chittorgarh fort of Rajasthan.

The two stars didn’t come face-to-face in ‘Padmaavat’, but if they did, the visuals would somewhat look like this.

The cinema owners were left to deal with repairs and there was no way to fix responsibility for demonstrators turning violent.

Owing to the huge response, Deepika took to her Instagram to chat with the audience and answer their questions.

Several commercial films like ‘Padmaavat’ and ‘Raazi’ and recent releases ‘Love Sonia and ‘Manto’ were in contention.

'Padmaavat', previously 'Padmavati', was Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s dream project in the making since a long time.

After Deepika and Shahid’s announcements, all the three ‘Padmaavat’ actors will now have wax statues at Madame Tussauds.