Mumbai, Nov 17: It’s business as usual in the lobby of the Mumbai five-star hotel where Deepika Padukone aka Padmavati is occupying a suite. But once you alight from the lift on the 23rd floor, you can feel a certain `tightness’ in the air. Security personnel are strategically parked outside the elevator and they perk up to scan visitors unobtrusively but thoroughly.
Unless you are being accompanied by a member of her immediate staff, there’s no way you can have access to this floor on this day. The actress, who is scheduled to meet a section of the media later the same evening in one of the banquet halls with adequate security, is getting ready when we are shown in.
Inside her room, the atmosphere is calmer. Dressed in a bright red outfit, her long hair tied back in a neat ponytail, the actress doesn’t display any nerves. If she is anxious about the threats made to her and her Padmavati filmmaker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, she doesn’t show any outward signs of nervousness.
Instead she is hospitality personified, ordering tea and cookies for her guests. Her head held high, she says, “I have full faith in the judicial system of our country. I know no wrong will be done.’’
