Deepika's
Childhood
Deepika
Padukone
is
the
daughter
of
the
famous
badminton
player
Prakash
Padukone.
She
was
born
in
Copenhagen
and
raised
in
Bangalore.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
clicked
while
laughing
at
a
Bollywood
event)
National
Level
Player
Not
many
are
aware
that
as
a
teenager
Deepika
Padukone
played
badminton
at
the
national
level.
But
she
left
the
game
to
pursue
a
career
in
modelling.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
posing
for
the
camera)
Deepika
Padukone
Talks
About
Her
School
Days.
"I
would
wake
up
at
five
in
the
morning,
go
for
physical
training,
go
to
school,
again
go
for
playing
badminton,
finish
my
homework
and
go
to
sleep.''
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
on
the
ramp)
Deepika
On
Why
She
Left
The
Game
"I
realised
that
I
was
playing
the
game
only
because
it
ran
in
the
family.
So,
I
asked
my
father
if
I
could
give
up
the
game
and
he
wasn't
upset
at
all,'' Deepika
Padukone
told
a
daily.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
snapped
outside
her
vanity
van)
Modelling
In
2004,
Deepika
Padukone
took
modelling
as
her
full
time
career.
She
did
many
ads
for
famous
brands
at
the
start
of
her
career.
(In
Pic-Bollywood
actress
Deepika
Padukone)
Kingfisher
Girl
Deepika
Padukone
became
highly
famous
in
the
modelling
world
when
she
became
a
kingfisher
calendar
girl
in
the
year
2006.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
at
a
promotional
event)
Music
Video
At
21,
Deepika
Padukone
became
a
household
name
when
she
appeared
in
Himesh
Reshammiya's
song
'Naam
Hai
Tera.'
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
posing
for
the
camera
in
a
beautiful
white
saree)
Happy
New
Year
Farah
Khan,
who
noticed
her
in
Himesh
Reshammiya's
music
video,
made
the
decision
to
cast
her
for
a
role
in
Happy
New
Year.
(In
Pic-Bollywood
diva
Deepika
Padukone)
Happy
New
Year
Postponed
By
the
end
of
2006,
Farah
Khan
decided
to
postpone
Happy
New
Year.
Later,
she
signed
Deepika
Padukone
for
the
reincarnation
melodrama
Om
Shanti
Om
with
superstar
Shahrukh
Khan.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Shahrukh-Deepika
It
was
a
dream
come
true
for
Deepika
Padukone
as
not
many
actresses
get
the
opportunity
to
work
with
a
big
star
like
Shahrukh
Khan,
that
too,
in
their
first
film.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Om
Shanti
Om
Om
Shanti
Om
was
a
commercial
success,
and
emerged
as
the
highest-grossing
film
of
that
year.
It
also
gave
Deepika
a
direct
entry
to
the
A
club
of
Bollywood.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Filmfare
Awards
At
the
Filmfare
Awards
ceremony,
Deepika
Padukone
was
awarded
the
Best
Female
Debut
Award.
Not
just
that
she
also
received
her
first
nomination
in
the
Best
Actress
category.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Love
Aaj
Kal
After
Om
Shanti
Om,
Deepika
Padukone
signed
many
films
but
most
of
them
bombed
at
the
box
office.
Then
came
Love
Aaj
Kal
in
2009.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
One
of
The
Highest
Grossing
Films
Deepika
Padukone's
Love
Aaj
Kal
proved
to
be
the
third
highest-grossing
film
of
2009.
Apart
from
Deepika,
the
movie
also
starred
Bollywood
actor
Saif
Ali
Khan.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
snapped
with
her
fans)
Cocktail
After
seeing
Deepika
Padukone
in
Cocktail,
film
critics
started
to
take
her
acting
seriously.
She
surprised
everyone
with
her
mind-blowing
performance
in
the
movie.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Box
Office
Hit
Cocktail
performed
really
well
at
the
box
office
and
did
a
good
business.
Deepika
Padukone
earned
Best
Actress
nominations
at
several
award
ceremonies
for
her
role
in
the
movie,
including
Filmfare,
Screen
and
IIFA.
(In
Pic-Deepika,
Kriti,
Kanika)
Ram-Leela
Deepika
Padukone
became
one
of
the
top
actresses
of
Bollywood
with
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali's
Ram-Leela.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone
interacting
with
the
media
at
a
Bollywood
event)
Ranveer-Deepika
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali's
Ram-Leela
was
a
huge
hit
and
people
loved
the
chemistry
between
the
lead
pair
of
the
movie
Ranveer
Singh
and
Deepika
Padukone.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone's
cute
selfie
in
white)
Deepika's
Love
Story
Reportedly,
Ranveer
Singh
and
Deepika
Padukone
started
liking
each
other
during
the
shooting
of
their
first
film
together,
Ram-Leela.
Before
dating
Deepika,
Ranveer
was
in
a
relationship
with
Anushka.
(In
Pic-Deepika
Padukone)
Deepika-Ranbir
And
before
Ranveer
Singh,
Deepika
Padukone
was
in
love
with
Bollywood's
heartthrob
Ranbir
Kapoor,
whom
she
met
on
the
sets
of
Yeh
Jawani
Hai
Deewani.
(In
Pic-Bollywood
diva
Deepika
Padukone)