Mumbai: Actor Deepika Padukone on Monday introduced she has resigned as the chairperson of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival owing to her work commitments.
Padukone had changed filmmaker Kiran Rao to turn into the chairperson of the pageant in 2019.
The actor took to Instagram and wrote she determined to step down from the place as she will not be capable of give the pageant “undivided focus.”
“Being on the board of MAMI and serving as Chairperson has been a deeply enriching expertise. As an artist it was invigorating to convey collectively cinema and expertise from everywhere in the world to Mumbai, my second house.
“I have come to realise, however, that with my current state of work, I will be unable to give MAMI the undivided focus and attention it requires,” Padukone mentioned within the word.
The 35-year-old actor added that she was departing from MAMI realizing that the pageant can be in “the best hands possible”.
Padukone has a packed movie slate, beginning with filmmaker Shakun Batra’s upcoming relationship-drama and Siddharth Anand’s “Pathan”, headlined by Shah Rukh Khan.
She would additionally collaborate with “Baahubali” star Prabhas for a multilingual sci-fi movie and crew up with Hrithik Roshan for the patriotic-action-drama “Fighter”.
Last yr, the organisers of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival postponed its twenty second version because of the coronavirus pandemic.Â
