Deepika Padukone


Deepika Padukone is one amongst the prime rated Indian model-turned-actress who has gained international fame & recognition. Born in Denmark and raised in India, Deepika geared toward changing into a World-class badminton player, like her father Prakash Padukone. However, her ambition for a sporting career soon faded as she found her real calling as a model. Having established her position because the supermodel of the country, walking high-profile ramp shows, gracing because the Calendar Lady for Kingfisher and doing a few ad films, it had been solely natural for Deepika to require the subsequent leap and start her career as an actor. While Kannada film ‘Aishwariya’ marked her debut as an actor, her first Hindi film was ‘Om Shanti Om’, that catapulted her to limelight. Over the years, she has established herself among the high actresses of Hindi cinema by giving some suprelative performances in movies, like ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’, ‘Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela’, ‘Piku’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. She has also ventured into the Hollywood with the action film ‘xXx: Come of Xander Cage’. Currently, she is amongst the best-paid actress in the globe.
Deepika Padukone was born on January five, 1986, in Copenhagen Denmark to Prakash Padukone and international badminton player and Ujjala Padukone. Her father may be a terribly famous former badminton player. She encompasses a younger sister, Anisha, who is a professional golfer.
Her family shifted to India and settled in Bangalore, when Deepika was a year old. Deepika attended Sophia High School and later Mount Carmel College for pre-university education. She had enrolled at IGNOU for a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology but quit it in order to pursue the modelling career.
While she was growing up, she was completed targeted on badminton at one point of time and played competitively from a young age. But afterward she realised that badminton wasn’t her real calling. In 2004, she went whole hog to pursue a modelling career beneath the tutelage of fashion stylist Prasad Bidapa.
Unlike models who struggle to get a chance, Deepika Padukone’s journey was a sleek one. In 2005, she created her runway debut at Lakme Fashion Week. The subsequent year, she was featured in the Kingfisher Calendar. She gained wider recognition when she was featured within the music video for Himesh Reshammiya’s song ‘Naam Hai Tera’.
She soon began to receive film offers. However, not the one to jump into anything hastily, she instead enrolled for an acting course at Anupam Kher Film Academy to coach herself for the task.
Deepika Padukone made her debut in 2006 with a Kannada film ‘Aishwarya’ opposite Upendra. Directed by Indrajit Lankesh, the film was a significant commercial success. Meanwhile, she had conjointly inked a pander to Farah Khan for the Hindi film ‘Happy New Year’.
After Farah Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’ was shelved, she forged Deepika Padukone for the 2007 reincarnation melodrama ‘Om Shanti Om’. It marked her Bollywood debut. In it, she shared screen house with Shah Rukh Khan. The film was a great business success, and emerged as the best-grossing film of the year. Deepika was lauded by the critics for her acting talent and her screen presence.
Following the massive breakthrough, film offers came rolling in for Deepika. She was cast in ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’, ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ and ‘Love Aaj Kal’. While the first two performed averagely at the box office, ‘Love Aaj Kal’ was a runaway success and became the third highest-grossing film of 2009. Deepika was complomented for delivering her finest performance as Meera Pandit.
After witnessing huge success, Padukone dipped at rock bottom of her career in 2010. Though she had 5 releases slated for the year, none truly did something to accentuate her career graph. In fact, most of them bombed badly at the box workplace. To make matters worse, 2011 continued the sad saga of failed films in Padukone’s career as each her films ‘Aarakshan’ and ‘Desi Boyz’ miserably performed at the box workplace.
After giving a streak of disastrous films, Deepika was written off as an actor by the critics. Whereas some said she lost her sparkle, others claimed that she had nothing more to offer. Taking all the criticism in her stride and braving them off, Padukone pulled up a beautiful performance in her next venture, Homi Adajania’s 2012 rom-com ‘Cocktail’. The film proved to be a turning point in her career. Essaying the role of Veronica, an impulsive party woman, Deepika was credited as the ‘soul of the film’. The film did exceptionally well and re-established her acting career.
2013 was an important year for Deepika. She featured in four prime grossing films of the year so affirming her place because the leading actress of up to date Hindi cinema. To begin off with, she was seen in Abbas Mastan’s multi-starrer action thriller ‘Race a pair of’. Next in line was Ayan Mukerji’s rom-com ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’. She then starred in Rohit Shetty’s action-comedy ‘Chennai Express’ and eventually ended the year with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Shakespearean tragedy ‘Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela’. Critics lauded her impeccable talent and acting prowess claiming her as the reigning queen of the trade.
In 2014, she shared screen space with Rajnikanth, the God of Tamil Film industry, in the period drama ‘Kochadaiiyaan’. Same year, Farah Khan’s shelved project ‘Happy New Year’ was released. The film became one in all the foremost successful films of Deepika’s career.
Shoojit Sircar’s 2015 film ‘Piku’ gave Deepika the chance to return out of her glam-woman-dancing-to-tunes avatar and pose as a headstrong character who is real, and affable. The feminist tone that the film portrayed couldn’t are possible had it not been for Deepika’s artistry brilliance. Her de-glam and restrained-star look was lauded both commercially and critically.
Deepika ended 2015 on a lofty note with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s historic drama ‘Bajirao Mastani’. In it, she played a warrior princess who eventually becomes Maratha General Bajirao I’s second wife. Her excellence as Mastani was lauded by the critics who found her riveting and enthralling. For the film, she learnt sword-fighting, horse-riding and kalaripayattu. It became the fourth highest grossing Bollywood film of the year.
The phenomenal success of Deepika as an actor saw her cross boundaries as she became a star of international repute. Having made her mark in Bollywood, Deepika then eyed to create a reputation for herself in Hollywood. Her debut venture in Hollywood was for the 2017 action film ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ opposite Vin Diesel. She was seen within the lead role as Serena Unger. The film opened to mixed reviews.

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