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Deepika Padukone’s high fee proving misery for filmmakers?

Deepika Padukone is currently enthralling the audience with her appearances at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. She is also Bollywood’s top actress, which reportedly proves difficult for a film’s budget, as anyone cast opposite her cannot be someone of the same popularity.

As according to Deccan Chronicle, a trade source said, “But the problem is that Deepika is the highest paid actress today in Bollywood. She commands fees that A-list actors do and if she is paid that kind of a figure, budgets do not become viable to cast another A-list actor opposite her. If the actor is too small then Deepika does not want to be cast with newcomers or relative newcomers. That is the dilemma of a top actress. If you pay her the fees she deserves, you need to cast someone opposite her who is not that expensive and she does not want someone like that all the time. So, the budgets go crazy.”

Padukone was last seen in ‘Padmaavat’ (2018).