Overview
- Trade outlets on Friday, July 17, cited a Variety India report saying Deepika Padukone has been filming almost every day while seven months pregnant to wrap Raaka.
- The coverage, drawing on anonymous crew quotes, says she has pulled night shifts and performed physically demanding action sequences described as “gruelling.”
- Multiple reports note that neither Deepika nor Raaka’s production team has publicly confirmed the account, so the details rest on trade reporting and on‑set sources.
- Raaka is an Atlee-directed, pan‑India sci‑fi/fantasy action film starring Allu Arjun and Deepika that is being positioned for a 2027 release, which reporters say explains the push to complete her scenes now.
- The reports join past examples of Deepika working through pregnancy in 2024 and her public support for structured eight-hour shifts, raising questions about scheduling, safety and protections for pregnant performers on big productions.