Director Meghna Gulzar is now gearing up for the release of her tons-awaited undertaking, Sam Bahadur, which boasts of a stellar solid in the form of Vicky Kaushal, Sanya Malhotra and Fatima Sana Sheikh. The director has controlled to have pretty a report thus far with  severely and commercially a success movies earlier with Talvar and Raazi. Her most recent film, Chhapaak which starred Deepika Padukone inside the titular role and became supposed to be a sport-changer for her, become met with mixed evaluations and didn't perform as according to expectations at the container office as well.

Many believed that the box workplace performance of the film was stricken by Padukone's go to to the JNU protest at that time, which changed into a burning trouble and said to be very arguable. Recently, on the Indian Express Adda, Gulzar went on to throw mild on the same as she stated, “I am positive that the answer is pretty apparent. Yes, of direction, it made a dent at the movie. Because the communication went from acid violence, which I meant the film to expand, to somewhere else. So, of course it impacted the film. There isn't any denying that.”For the uninitiated, Padukone's participation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on January 7, 2020 became 3 days before the discharge of the film, Chhapaak. The protest in question changed into in reaction to the 202 JNU assault and the Citizenship Amendment Act. This turned into met with a massive social media backlash wherein hashtags like #BoycottChhapaak and #BoycottDeepika trended on Twitter.

As a co-producer alongside Fox Star Studios, Govind Singh Sandhu, and Meghna Gulzar, Deepika Padukone marked her debut in production with Chhapaak. Despite being made on a budget of Rs 50 crore, the film handiest grossed Rs fifty five.Forty four crore on the box workplace.

Coming to Sam Bahadur, the movie is based on the life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and in particular highlights Manekshaw's pivotal function in India’s victory at some point of the 1971 conflict, which led to the beginning of Bangladesh.