In appreciation of her performance in Ram Leela, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan sent Deepika Padukone a bouquet of flowers. The actress says that this is one of her most cherished gifts.
Deepika Padukone is the first Bollywood actress to have delivered four rupees 100-crore-plus hits, consecutively. The four movies include Race 2, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express, and Ram Leela, all of which saw the actress perform brilliantly.
Deepika Padukone is related to the legendary Bollywood actor-director Guru Dutt, whose real name was Vasanth Padukone.
Before breaking into Bollywood, Deepika Padukone took acting classes from Anupam Kher and dancing classes from Shaimak Davar.
Kareena Kapoor, and not Deepika Padukone, was director Rohit Shetty's initial choice to act in Chennai Express opposite Shah Rukh Khan.
Before she made it big in Bollywood, Deepika Padukone was in a live-in relationship with struggling actor and model Nihar Pandya.
The famous hand movements in the folk-ish song Pinga have been borrowed from Sanjay Leela Bhansali's cook and house help.
The leading lady's role in Kick was intially offered to Deepika Padukone. However, the actress rejected it because she did not want to work with Salman Khan.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage marks the debut of the popular Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone in Hollywood. Interestingly she was offered a role in the Vin Diesel starrer Fast & Furious 7 but she turned down the offer due to date issues.
Deepika Padukone was the first choice to be a part of Rockstar, but Imtiaz Ali realised that the scenes would look a lot like Love Aaj Kal's, which is why he cast Nargis Fakhri instead of her.
Tamasha was initially offered to Anushka Sharma, however, she turned down the role because she thought the role wasn't meaty enough for her and that the movie was eventually about Ranbir Kapoor's character. Hence, the role went on to Deepika Padukone.
Deepika Padukone, who plays the titular role in the movie Padmavati, charged a remuneration of 13 crore INR, making her the highest paid actress in Bollywood (as of 2017).
Deepika Padukone has her own line of women's clothing called 'All About You'.
Padukone is a social activist who believes in feminism and works hard to spread awareness on mental health. To this effect, she founded Live Love Laugh, an organization to create awareness on mental health in India.
In 2010, Deepika Padukone adopted Ambegaon, a village in Maharashtra, to provide the villagers with electricity, in collaboration with NDTV's Jai Jawaan, a reality show.
Deepika Padukone is an active supporter of the Olympic Gold Quest, an organization cofounded by her father, to support athletes at the Olympic Games.
As on of Bollywood's most recognized personalities, Deepika Padukone has been associated with products for several highprofile brands like Liril, Garnier, Nescafe, Sony CyberShot, Tissot, Pepsi, Maybelline, and Vogue Eyewear.
Deepika Padukone starred in a two-and-a-half minute Women's Empowerment Video for
Vogue, called “My Choice”, in 2015. The highly controversial video about feminism has been
viewed several million times, has split people's opinions and received a lot of criticism. In the
video, Padukone speaks of how it's a women's choice how to behave, what to do, and who to love.Statements like it's a woman's choice to “have sex outside of marriage” have been heavily
criticized. Some say that the video appears to be promoting the superiority of women over men rather than their equality and the film gives a distorted view of feminism.
On 14th September 2014, the Times of India, one of India's top media houses tweeted a video
zooming into Deepika Padukone's cleavage, captioned, “OMG: Deepika Padukone's cleavage
show!”. The news outlet was on the receiving end of immense criticism from celebrities and
deeregular citizens alike, with Padukone herself tweeting, “Supposedly India's 'LEADING' newspaper and this is 'NEWS'!!??” She added, “YES! I am a Woman. I have breasts AND cleavage! You got a problem!!??” The Times of India after getting a lot of flak attempted at defending themselves, calling Padukone a hypocrite, and only conceding that the headline could have been better.
Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor shared a love-hate relationship for some time. After
appearing together on a controversial episode of Koffee With Karan, where the two openly took shots at other celebrities, including Padukone's former flame Ranbir Kapoor, Padukone patched up with the actor, leaving Sonam Kapoor bitter, and taking to twitter to take digs at Padukone.
In 2009, a year after they began dating, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone ended their relationship. Although Ranbir initially claimed that the break-up was mutual, he later admitted to infidelity. When asked about this in an interview, the actor said, "Yes, I have, out of immaturity, out of inexperience, out of taking advantage of certain temptations, out of callousness." The two are, however, on good terms and continue to share a friendly and professional relationship.