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Oops! Sonam Kapoor mistaken for Deepika Padukone at Cannes 2017

Updated on: 23 May,2017 09:00 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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After confusing Deepika Padukone with Priyanka Chopra several times in the past, now a foreign news agency has mistaken Sonam Kapoor for the 'Padmavati' actress. Here's the picture...

Oops! Sonam Kapoor mistaken for Deepika Padukone at Cannes 2017

Oops! Sonam Kapoor mistaken for Deepika Padukone by foreign media at Cannes 2017

Sonam Kapoor at Cannes 2017
Sonam Kapoor at Cannes 2017. Pic/AFP


After confusing Deepika Padukone with Priyanka Chopra several times in the past, now a foreign news agency has mistaken Sonam Kapoor for the 'Padmavati' actress.


Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone at Cannes 2017. Pic/AFP


A US-based photo media agency captioned a picture of Sonam Kapoor on the red carpet of Cannes 2017 as "Indian actress Deepika Padukone arrives for the film The Meyerowitz Stories in competition at the 70th Annual International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 21, 2017."

Here's the screenshot of the photo:

Oops! Sonam Kapoor mistaken for Deepika Padukone by foreign media at Cannes 2017
Sonam Kapoor mistaken for Deepika Padukone by foreign media at Cannes 2017. Pic/@RandomMusings98 Twitter account

Deepika Padukone, who has been mistaken for Priyanka Chopra by the media in the US multiple times, earlier said it's racist and ignorant for people to assume that people with similar skin tones are the same.

A video doing the rounds on social media showed a foreign paparazzo constantly referring to Deepika as "Priyanka, Priyanka" while she made her way out of an airport in the US.

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Deepika, who made her Hollywood debut with the Vin Diesel starrer 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' earlier this year, had strong views about facing this 'identity crisis' and about how the Indian media needs to deal with it maturely.

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Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra
Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra

In an interview to IANS over phone from Mumbai, the actress said, "To me it's racist and ignorant. And as a fellow Indian, you (the media) should also be not very happy about. I think just because people have similar skin tones, doesn't mean they are same people."

"As people in a place of power that the media has, instead of creating a tabloid piece of out it, people should be educating them further," Deepika Padukone said.

Also read: Deepika Padukone mistaken for Priyanka Chopra yet again
Deepika Padukone mistaken for Priyanka Chopra yet again

Meanwhile, Bollywood beauties Sonam Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Deepika Padukone have dazzled on the red carpet at Cannes film festival this year.

(With inputs from IANS)

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