Deepika Padukone shares a close bond with her family, and visits them regularly in her hometown of Bangalore. She lives by herself in Prabhadevi . Padukone considers religion to be an important aspect of her life and makes frequent visits to temples and other religious shrines. While filming Bachna Ae Haseeno in 2008, Deepika and Ranbir had a romantic relationship and sported a tattoo of his initials on the nape of her neck. The couple broke up a year later but remained on good terms In 2011, she was seen with Siddharth Mallya at an Indian Premier League match and soon after the break up again. This led to speculation again in the media. She denied the rumors and strongly commented in which she said, ' Just because we are not seen together it doesn't mean that we are not friends any more. She is now linked to be in relationship with Ranveer Singh .
Deepika Padukone was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a Konkani speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin Family. Her father is the very famous badminton player Prakash Padukone who is known for his international repute. Mother is Ujjala who runs a Travel Agency . She has one younger sister Anisha who is a golfer. The family relocated to Bangalore when Deepika was a year old . She studied in Sophia High School and completed her pre-university education at Mount Carmel College and subsequently enrolled herself at the Indira Gandhi National Open University for she completed Bachelor of Arts in Sociology but had to quit when she started getting offers for modelling. As a teenager she was following the footsteps of her father and played badminton at the National level championships, but she left her career in sports to become the fashion model. She soon started receiving offers in films and made her acting debut in 2006 in the title character role in the Kannada film' Aishwarya'.. Her debut in Hindi films started with her dual role in her first Bollywood release in 2007, which was a blockbuster film.' Om Shanti Om'
Deepika Padukone was known to be a socially awkward as a child, and was an introvert who had difficulty in making friends . The focus of her life was badminton, which she played competitively from a young age. She continued to pursue a career in badminton throughout her school years,. She also played baseball in a few state level tournaments. Deepika had also worked as a Child model first appearing in a couple of advertising campaigns at the age of eight. In her pre degree she changed her focus from sports to taking up a career in modelling. In 2004, she began a full time career as model under the guidance of Prasad Bidapa. And soon went to gain recognition with a television commercial for the Soap Liril and thereafter modeled for various other brands and products. In 2005 she made her runway debut at the Lakme Fashion Week for designer Sumeet Verma and won the ' Model of the Year' Award at the Kingfisher Fashion Awards. She also appeared in the highly popular print campaign for the 2006 Kingfisher Calendar designed by Wendel Rodrics who commented that "Since Aishwarya Rai, we haven't had a girl as beautiful and fresh as Deepika" Deepika Padukone relocated to Mumbai to pursue her modelling career and lived with her aunt. She did her first music video ' Naam Hai Tera' for Himesh Reshammiya. Deepika Padukone soon began to receive offers for film roles but she decided to enroll herself for a course at The Anupam Kher's Film Academy. Following much media speculation, the director Farah Khan noticed her in Hemesh Reshammiya's music video and signed her for the film, Happy New Year. The film was shelved and Farah Khan had instead cast Deepika for the film, ' Om Shanti Om' in 2007 set against the back drop of the Hindi Film Industry wherein she plays the dual roles and tells a story of struggling actor .She starred with Shahrukh Khan and Arjun Rampal in this film. 'Om Shanti Om' was commercial success and emerged as the highest grossing film of the year with a global revenue of Rs. 1.49 billion. Deepika Padukone has all it takes to be the top star - Her personality, the looks, she is supremely talented and standing in the same frame as the top actor Shahrukh Khan at the beginning of her career is no small achievement. She is not only considered today as one of the best actresses among today's Bollywood stars, but also one of the prettiest faces around. The 30 year old Model-turned-actress carries a persona that embraces femininity to the core.
Upon success of the film, ' Om Shanti Om, which proved to be a breakthrough for Deepika, she followed on more success with the Yashraj film , ' Bachna Ae Haseeno' in 2008 with Ranbir Kapoor . She did several films thereafter , Chandni Chowk to China which was a kungfu comedy in which she again plays a dual role of Chinese twin sisters. It had one of the widest international releases ever given to an Indian film . For this film Deepika also learnt the Japanese martial art form of Jujutsu and performed her stunts with ease. Despite the hype the film proved to be a failure and film critics were disappointed with the film and Padukone's performance . She earned back laurels with her film, Love Aaj Kal which documented the film on the changing values of relationship among the youth. she starred opposite to Saif Ali Khan in a romantic triangle storyline. Love Aaj Kal proved to be the third highest grossing film of 2009 for which she received the nomination for Best Actress Award and won the FilmFare Awards for Best Female Debut. Her performance in the films, Lafangey Parindey and Houseful, in 2010 and Bachna Ae Haseeno in 2008 were met with negative reviews. Deepika yet again had a turning point in her film career with the 2012 box Office hit Cocktail which earned her as the Best Actress nominations at several award ceremonies and she rose to prominence with starring rolled in the comedy films, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani , Chennai Express, Happy New Year , and the historical films, ; Bajirao Mastani, all which were ranked as the highest grossing films. Her acclaimed portrayal of a character based on Juliet in the tragic romantic film, Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela, in 2013 and the comedy drama film' Piku' with Amitabh Bachchan, won her two Best Actress Awards at the Filmfare Awards night. Deepika Padukone will soon make her debut to the Hollywood with the fim ' xXx', the Return of Xander Cage and is also considered to be one of the highest paid actresses in the World according to the Forbes Magazine. She believes that as an actor the intentions is always to be a part of a good script and character and that should live on hopefully for many many years. as told by the actress in an interview in Mumbai. Deepika claims her journey in the industry hasnt been easy but it has definitely been very exciting and she lives upto each day with the passion and her dream.
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