Ektaa Kapoor has officially confirmed the sequel to The Dirty Picture, the 2011 film starring Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi and Tusshar Kapoor. In a conversation with Ranveer Allahbadia, the producer revealed that she has a story to tell through the upcoming sequel.

Hema Malini believes Deepika Padukone would be the perfect choice to portray her in a biopic. Her biographer Ram Kamal Mukherjee says he has long considered the idea, imagining Deepika as young Hema while the veteran actor plays her present-day self