Throwback! Deepika Padukone recalls her first meeting with the Badshah of Bollywood

MUMBAI: Actor-producer Deepika Padukone made her debut in Hindi movies with the 2007 film Om Shanti Om where she played a yesteryear superstar Shantipriya and starred alongside Shah Rukh Khan. Describing him ‘India’s biggest superstar’, Deepika said she was ‘almost in a daze’ when she first met him.

“I remember just sitting at the edge of the sofa, being so nervous, and almost in a daze. I couldn’t even process what was happening,” she asserted.

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Deepika revealed that the film’s director Farah Khan never even auditioned me for the role. “They never auditioned me. Even today, I look at (the director, Farah Khan) and I’m like, ‘What were you guys thinking?'”

Deepika has come a long way since then and is currently one of the leading superstars of the Hindi film industry. She is currently shooting for a song in Spain with Shah Rukh Khan for their next film Pathaan, where they share the screen with John Abraham. The Siddharth Anand directorial is set to hit the screens on January 25, 2023.

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Apart from Pathaan, Deepika is working on Project K with Prabhas, Fighter with Hrithik Roshan. the Hindi adaptation of The Intern with Amitabh Bachchan and is also developing a film based on the life of her father, international badminton player Prakash Padukone.

Credit: The Indian Express