Deepika
Padukone
recently
revisited
memories
from
her
school
days
and
recalled
how
being
a
badminton
player
back
then
taught
her
discipline,
dedication
and
determination.
She
also
revealed
that
she
received
special
treatment
in
school
for
being
badminton
player
Prakash
Padukone's
daughter.
Deepika
featured
in
Nat
Geo's
show
Mega
Icons,
where
she
got
candid
about
her
story
of
going
from
being
a
badminton
player
to
an
actress.
Talking
about
why
her
teachers
used
to
excuse
her,
Deepika
shared
that
they
used
to
say,
"We
would
have
punished
you
but
we
are
big
fans
of
your
father."
For
the
Padmaavat
actress,
badminton
took
up
most
of
her
time
during
her
school
days.
"The
routine
was
to
wake
up
every
morning
like
4-5am,
go
for
physical
conditioning,
go
back
home,
go
to
school.
As
soon
as
I
would
finish
school,
there
was
no
time
to
chitchat
with
friends
so
I
would
get
home,
change,
have
a
snack,
go
to
the
badminton
court,
have
dinner,
be
exhausted
by
that
point
and
go
to
sleep
and
then
the
same
thing
again.
She
continued,
"That
was
my
life:
No
late
nights,
no
TV,
no
movies.
Sport
teaches
you
sacrifice,
discipline,
dedication
and
determination."
However,
Deepika
changed
track
after
she
returned
from
a
solo
trip
to
Copenhagen
at
the
age
of
16.
She
knew
she
wanted
to
pursue
modelling.
"When
I
came
back,
that
was
it," she
said.
Deepika
left
for
Mumbai
at
17.
Her
father
Prakash
Padukone
also
said
on
the
show,
"Badminton
was
her
second
love,
not
first
love."
Talking
about
work,
Deepika
will
next
be
seen
in
'83,
a
film
about
India's
first
World
Cup
win
in
1983.
She
will
be
essaying
the
role
of
Romi
Dev,
wife
of
cricketer
Kapil
Dev,
who
will
be
played
by
her
husband
Ranveer
Singh.