Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi films.
74 Facts About Deepika Padukone
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Deepika Padukone is one of the highest-paid actresses in India, and her accolades include three Filmfare Awards.
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Deepika Padukone soon received offers for film roles and made her acting debut in 2006 as the title character of the Kannada film Aishwarya.
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Deepika Padukone then played a dual role opposite Shah Rukh Khan in her first Bollywood release, the romance Om Shanti Om, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
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Deepika Padukone received praise for her starring role in the romance Love Aaj Kal, but this was followed by a brief setback.
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Deepika Padukone received critical acclaim for playing a character based on Juliet in Bhansali's tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and a headstrong daughter in the comedy-drama Piku, winning two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress.
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Deepika Padukone is the founder of The Live Love Laugh Foundation, which creates awareness on mental health in India.
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Deepika Padukone was born on 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Konkani-speaking parents.
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Deepika Padukone's father, Prakash Padukone, is a former professional badminton player and her mother, Ujjala, is a travel agent.
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Deepika Padukone's paternal grandfather, Ramesh, was a secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association.
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The family relocated to Bangalore, India when Deepika Padukone was a year old.
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Deepika Padukone was educated at Bangalore's Sophia High School and completed her pre-university education at Mount Carmel College.
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Deepika Padukone subsequently enrolled at the Indira Gandhi National Open University for a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with her modelling career.
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Deepika Padukone has said that she was socially awkward as a child and did not have many friends.
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Deepika Padukone played baseball in a few state level tournaments.
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Early in her career, Deepika Padukone gained recognition with a television commercial for the soap Liril and modelled for various other brands and products.
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At the age of 21, Deepika Padukone relocated to Mumbai and stayed at her aunt's home.
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Rodricks, for whom Deepika Padukone had been modelling for roughly two years then, recommended her to Arora, a close friend of his, who in turn recommended her to Khan.
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Deepika Padukone made her acting debut with Aishwarya, a Kannada film directed by Indrajit Lankesh.
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Shah Rukh Khan starred as the lead, and Deepika Padukone featured in dual roles of a star in the 1970s, and later, an aspiring actress.
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In preparation, Deepika Padukone watched several films of actresses Helen and Hema Malini to study their body language.
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Deepika Padukone's voice was dubbed by the voice artist Mona Ghosh Shetty.
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For one of the songs in the film, "Dhoom Taana," Deepika Padukone drew upon Indian classical dance, and according to Dorling Kindersley, "mesmeriz[ed] audiences" by using hasta mudras.
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Deepika Padukone next played one of star Ranbir Kapoor's love interests in Siddharth Anand's romantic comedy Bachna Ae Haseeno.
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Deepika Padukone appeared alongside Saif Ali Khan in the romantic drama Love Aaj Kal from the writer-director Imtiaz Ali.
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Aniruddha Guha of Daily News and Analysis said that Deepika Padukone "delivers the best of her four performances so far", and she was awarded with another Best Actress nomination at Filmfare.
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Derek Elley of Variety found the film to be "thinly plotted" but considered "the uncomplicated ingenuousness of Deepika Padukone" to be the film's highlight.
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Bachchan featured as the revolutionary leader Surya Sen and Deepika Padukone played Kalpana Dutta, his confidante.
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Deepika Padukone said that she was unable to research her role as there was very little information on Dutta and relied on Gowarikar's direction.
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Deepika Padukone began 2011 with an item number in the film Dum Maaro Dum.
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Deepika Padukone has said that her starring role in the 2012 Homi Adajania-directed romantic comedy Cocktail marked a turning point in her career.
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Deepika Padukone was cast as Naina Talwar, a "shy wallflower," which marked a departure from the glamorous characters that she had a reputation for portraying.
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Deepika Padukone next played opposite Ranveer Singh in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy of Romeo and Juliet from director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
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Deepika Padukone's role was Leela, a Gujarati girl based on the character of Juliet.
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In 2014, Deepika Padukone featured opposite Rajinikanth in the Tamil film Kochadaiiyaan, a period drama shot using motion capture technology.
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Deepika Padukone was paid 30 million for two days of work in it.
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In Homi Adajania's satire Finding Fanny, Deepika Padukone played a young widow on a road trip with her dysfunctional friends.
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Deepika Padukone played a bar dancer who trains a group of underachievers for a dance competition.
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Deepika Padukone later remarked that production on the film was difficult for her as she suffered from depression and anxiety.
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Deepika Padukone was drawn to the depiction of a realistic father-daughter bond, which she thought was rare in Hindi cinema.
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Later in 2015, Deepika Padukone played a vulnerable young woman in love with a psychologically troubled man in Imtiaz Ali's romantic drama Tamasha.
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Deepika Padukone reunited with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ranveer Singh in Bajirao Mastani, a historical drama about a tragic extramarital affair.
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Singh was cast as the maratha general Bajirao I, while Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone featured as his first and second wife, respectively.
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Anupama Chopra found Padukone "riveting", but Subhash K Jha thought that she was "way too subtle and silken, and not steely enough".
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At the 61st Filmfare Awards, Bajirao Mastani was named Best Film and Deepika Padukone received her second Best Actress nomination in that year.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani dismissed the film as "abysmal" and thought that Deepika Padukone's talent was wasted in it, but Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter believed that she "practically steals the film".
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In 2018, Deepika Padukone portrayed Rani Padmavati, a Rajput queen who commits jauhar to protect herself from the Muslim invader Alauddin Khilji, in the period drama Padmaavat; it marked her third collaboration with Bhansali and Singh.
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Deepika Padukone was challenged by the need to convey her character's courage through silence, and was emotionally exhausted by the experience.
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Deepika Padukone read history books on the era and researched the various depictions of Padmavati.
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Vetticad of Firstpost criticised the film's glorification of jauhar, but credited Deepika Padukone for managing to "eke something out of the stereotype-ridden writing".
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The company's first release was Chhapaak, a drama by Meghna Gulzar, in which Deepika Padukone starred as an acid attack survivor.
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Deepika Padukone found it taxing to film in extreme heat wearing prosthetic makeup on her face, and considered it to be the most physically challenging role of her career.
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Amidst significant political backlash due to Deepika Padukone's perceived support for the Citizenship Amendment Act protests, Chhapaak failed commercially.
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Deepika Padukone was director Kabir Khan's first choice as he considered casting a real-life couple as an onscreen pair to be a good marketing strategy.
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Reviews for the film were positive, with Davesh Sharma of Filmfare commending Deepika Padukone for adding glamour to her supporting part.
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Deepika Padukone next took on a leading role in Shakun Batra's Gehraiyaan, a drama about infidelity which was released on Amazon Prime Video.
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Deepika Padukone described her part of a troubled woman engaged in an affair as the most layered of her career.
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Deepika Padukone served as a jury member at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
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Deepika Padukone reunited with Shah Rukh Khan in Siddharth Anand's action film Pathaan, set in the YRF Spy Universe.
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Saibal Chatterjee wrote that Deepika Padukone "pulls off the dual act of an irrepressible femme fatale and a committed soldier with elan".
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Deepika Padukone spoke openly about the relationship and sported a tattoo of his initials on the nape of her neck.
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Deepika Padukone has said that the relationship had a profound effect on her, transforming her into a more confident and social person.
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Deepika Padukone subsequently became reticent to discuss her personal life, but in 2017, she fondly spoke of her relationship with her frequent co-star Ranveer Singh, whom she began dating in 2012.
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Deepika Padukone has supported charitable organisations, and has performed for stage shows.
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In 2010, Deepika Padukone adopted the Maharashtrian village of Ambegaon as part of NDTV's Greenathon Campaign, to provide the village with a regular supply of electricity.
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Deepika Padukone visited Indian jawans in Jammu, for an Independence Day special episode of NDTV's reality show Jai Jawaan.
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Deepika Padukone took part in the opening ceremony of the third season of the Indian Premier League at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
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Deepika Padukone has been involved with the Olympic Gold Quest team, established by her father and Geet Sethi to support Indian athletes at the Olympic Games, along with sports personalities such as Leander Paes and Viswanathan Anand and several other actors.
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In 2020, Deepika Padukone attended a protest for students who were brutalised during the 2020 JNU Attack due to their protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
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Deepika Padukone is considered among the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India.
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Deepika Padukone has frequently featured in The Times of Indias listing of the "Most Desirable Woman", topping the list in 2012 and 2013.
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In 2014, Business Standard reported that Deepika Padukone earned 50 million to 60 million per endorsement deal and TAM AdEX named Deepika Padukone the most visible face on television in India that year.
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Later that year, Deepika Padukone was among several Bollywood actors who were criticised for posting Instagram messages showing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, despite their previous work advertising skin-lightening products which perpetuate colourism.
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Deepika Padukone has been the recipient of three Filmfare Awards: Best Female Debut for Om Shanti Om, and two Best Actress awards for Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Piku.