On the day I am to meet Deepika Padukone, the Indian newsstands are once again filled with magazines carrying her picture on their covers. A couple of recent public sightings of the elusive actress were enough to ignite a torrent of headlines about her relationship with her new found love interest Siddharth Mallya. But that’s not what the audiences, or to be more precise, her fans are interested in.

So let me tell you what happened when I met the persuasive Deepika Padukone. The day I am to meet Deepika Padukone, I was really energized. So I put on what usually men put on when they go to date a chick for the first time: Paco Rabanne, blue denims and a white shirt. When I see her in flesh, she too is wearing the identical. Sitting at an arm’s length, I still couldn’t smell what she had put on.

Anyway, the attire matched and it meant that we were sure to get along, and we did. After catching the industry’s eye since her big debut in 2007, Deepika Padukone has not only matured as an actress but has learnt how to balance her career. One of the most gifted young talents of our industry; she’s an engaging and an honest conversationalist with a relaxed manner and a wicked sense of humour and with her stupendous rise to stardom, we’ve no doubt that she’s also pinned up on the walls of thousands around the world but the less said about that, the better. I have seen almost all movies of Genelia, I would like to share my favourite website for genelia photos.

How long have you come since you made your debut in 2007?
I have come a long way since my debut but I still think I have a lot left to achieve for myself and I’m getting there. But there is much more I want to do.

How do you take ‘break up’?
I don’t identify with today’s youth mentality of breaking up with boyfriend or girlfriend. Yes, they are more practical but my thinking is rooted to our tradition. I’ve been brought up in a family where we put emotion before anything else. I respect my relationships and I am very traditional when it comes to maintaining them.

Deepika Padukone which means there is a serious problem with men and women who break up?
Today, when I see so many relationships crumbling in front of my eyes, it’s something I don’t understand why. I guess it’s to do with one’s tolerance level. People are not ready to put up with problems anymore. Whenever there is a slight problem, people think that it’s over.

Tell us something about Imran Khan, your co-actor in the film?
Imran Khan has grown as an actor since his first film. I think Break Ke Baad will be his best performance so far. He has learnt with every film and he is the most spontaneous co-actor I’ve worked with. He is brilliant and you will soon see that on the big screen.

Do you share your personal life stories with your director so he can incorporate a few things here and there?
There are certain things that an actor keeps to herself and we don’t really share our own stories or experiences with the writers of the film we are working on nor do we share it with the director or producers. We are given a bound script and the changes are made by the director, and not us. Yes, we observe people and learn from real life experiences but we don’t necessarily talk about it.

Audiences are of the opinion that your role in the film is more powerful than that of Imran’s.
My character empowers Imran’s character and thus the audiences who’ve seen the promo thinks that I am dominating in the film than he is. But that’s how my role is etched. I play Aliya in the film. She is very aggressive and professionally she wants to achieve a lot for herself. These are things I identify with my role. The facts that she doesn’t believe in love and is immature in the film are the things, I, as a professional don’t identify with.

Deepika Padukone Does music inspire you?
I love listening to music. I think it can change your mood completely. As an actor, if you listen to some song and then you perform in front of the camera, it really helps to get you into the mood. I’d love to learn a musical instrument at some point in my life and when it comes to filming a dance number for the film, I am the happiest.

How was it to work with debutant director Danish Aslam?
One thing that really drew me to be a part of Break Ke Baad was Danish’s confidence. The script was tight. Danish Aslam has assisted Kunal Kohli and Yash Raj
Films for more than seven years now and it’s his working experience that counts. He isn’t formal. He is relaxed and easy and for a film like this, it really helps.

Now that you’ve done Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, you’ve dissected your audience!
There is a certain audience that wants to see me in romantic comedies and commercial cinema and then there is an audience who wants to see me in a role like I’m doing in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. So I’d love to do all kinds of roles because it is challenging for any actor or else you will always be stuck in a rut.

(Via:oneindia)

The most recent murmur is that Deepika Padukone who was a successful mock-up will now arbitrate the ‘Kingfisher Calendar Girls’ for 2011 along with Siddhartha Mallya. We seize up with Deepika Padukone where she refreshed some of her memories from her modelling days.

“It was always fun to be role of modelling world. I feel these days these models are lucky, when I am in progress, there was no such chase. You always have to be prepared and be flawless for any contracts. And I loved the career,” says Deepika.

Deepika and Imran, their characters may be on a shatter from their affiliation in ‘Break Ke Baad‘, but neither Imran Khan nor Deepika Padukone have the same opinion with this assumption in real life. The approaching movie will see the pair playing as Aaliyah and Abhay respectively, a couple who agree to give each other an inhalation distance while still enduring committed to each other.

But the two actors are strongly contrasting to applying this practice to their personal interaction. Deepika says that she has never understood the concept of a fissure. “If things aren’t working out well, then the couple must try to solve their differences. A bond requires an incessant work. There’s no intermediate way for me,” she says.

Kingfisher calendar has been the best platform for many aspiring beautiful women to increase their modeling careers but this time this limited version calendar is going to come up with the photographs of girls that will be selected under the eye of bollywood diva, Deepika Padukone along with the son of Kingfisher organization, Sidhartha Mallya for the Kingfisher calendar 2011.

When Padukone was questioned as to what she was looking forward to in the girls who will be the cove faces on the calendar, the actress replied that she is looking for the perfect package, a stability between physique, looks and intelligence. She emphasized upon this saying that all three factors are important as even one factor missing will not work for the achievement of the calendar.

Padukone also added that she too was a portion of the calendar once but during those days she was a full fledged model and was directly approached for the part. Deepika can feel for those girls who will be judged on their visual appeal and says that this will be truly hard for them. Siddharth Mallaya another judge said that the participants were all good quality looking and the competition was a tough one.

Veteran artiste Sharmila Tagore is known to be picky with signing movies but a lesser-known fact is that she makes exceptions for populace she is loving of. And it turns elsewhere, Deepika Padukone is one of them. Sharmila will be seen in the Imran Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer, ‘Break Ke Baad’, in which she is acting a single mother to Deepika.

Deepika and Sharmila carve up a very unusual mother-daughter affiliation in the film. In addition to, acting must come unsurprisingly to both since both Deepika and Sharmila are very fond of each other. The two first met on the sets of ‘Love Aaj Kal‘, which Saif Ali Khan produced.

Deepika’s new movie revolves around Facebook! Well she is eventful chirping or full of activities promoting her movie ‘Break Ke Baad’ that will hit the cinemas this November. The 5 feet 9 inches tall actress is recently very active on the communal networking sites these days demanding updating about her character Aaliya Khan from the Kunal Kohli movie.

The movie revolves around a popular networking site and Deepika claims that “Aaliya believes that one’s facebook status doesn’t determine your relationship category, just because she loves her liberty doesn’t mean she wants to break up”.

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone will be seen in two continuous films – as the free-spirited Aaliya in one and as the intense Kalpana in the other. The actress revealed that shifting roles was quite challenging for her. ‘I did ‘Break Ke Baad’ and ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey’ instantly one after the other. So I think it was very challenging for me in terms of my mind space to shift from the character in a romantic modern love story to the one in a period film,’ Deepika told IANS in an interview here at Turner Road.

‘Break Ke Baad’ has been directed by Danish Aslam and produced by Kunal Kohli. It is the love story of a young couple who break up and try to come back together and will  be released on 26th November. ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey’ by Ashutosh Gowarikar, is a period film set in the Chittagong of British India. It revolves around a series of attacks that took place on a single night April 18, 1930, and its aftermath. The movie based on Manini Chatterjee’s book, stars Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika in lead roles. The film will  be released on 3rd december.

While the characters of both the movies are quite diverse on the face of it, the 24-year-old actress revealed the core personality were beautiful similar and hence she relates to both of them. ‘Even though one movie is a period film and the other is a modern day relationship story, both the characters – Aaliya and Kalpana – are very strong, self-governing women. They are girls who have their own set of ideals, girls who want to be self-governing so in that way I have identified with both characters,’ she said.

Deepika, who started her Bollywood stint in 2007 opposite Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Om Shanti Om’, went on to do films like ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’, ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ and ‘Love Aaj Kal’. This year she has already had three releases, plus ‘Karthik Calling Karthik’, ‘Housefull’ and ‘Lafangey Parindey’. Asked about the apparent similarity between her character in ‘Break Ke Baad’ and in ‘Love Aaj Kal’, the actress said: ‘People feel that the films are similar, but that’s probably because both the movies are love stories.

Just because the genre is the same doesn’t mean that films are similar.’ ‘In fact Meera’s character from ‘Love Aaj Kal’ and Aliya’s character in ‘Break Ke Baad’ are completely different. Meera was a more mature, understanding girl, who understood relations she liked the idea of being in love, whereas Aliya is a complete opposite. ‘She believes that if you are in a relationship, it doesn’t mean you have to get married. She doesn’t believe that a couple have to live together and certain things like that.

Her way of thinking about a relationship is very different. She is also very immature sometimes when it comes to relationships,’ she added. Finally when asked about her experience of working with a debut director, the actress said: ‘Danish is a fantastic director; I think he is extremely talented and I’m not just saying this because I am working with him, but I think part of the reason for me to say yes to this film is because he came across as someone very confident, in spite of being a first time director.’

Deepika Padukone is the girl to watch out for in 2011. She is rapid parting the other Bollywood beauties behind in the competition for superstardom.

Ramesh Taurani, producer of the movie, ‘Race 2′ has inveterated that Deepika will be in the main lead opposite to Saif in Race 2. Guess Priyanka Chopra has lost out on this one too.

Now there is scope for Priyanka to try and get assist into this movie if she wants because there’s a character for a second girl. On the other hand, Sonakshi Sinha is also waiting in queue.

Director Siddharth Anand’s next flick Two States based on writer Chetan Bhagat’s fiction was announced a few days ago. It was also said that actors Saif Ali Khan (playing a Punjabi Boy) and Priyanka Chopra on stage of a South Indian Girl) will take part in the conduct characters of ‘Krissh’ and ‘Ananya’, respectively. On the reverse, the recent buzz suggests that Deepika Padukone will probably change Priyanka as the female lead.

A resource well-versed that producer Sajid Nadidwala and director Siddharth feel that Deepika Padukone is a better selection for the character of a South Indian young woman than Priyanka. The makers of the film are not enlightening anything on records.

The catalog of ShahRukh Khan’s admirers is endless. And joining the fan club is the warm new on-screen pair Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone, who will be seen paying tribute to him in Kunal Kohli’s forthcoming production, Break Ke Baad which is a comedy movie.

In this film Imran plays a theatre owner and Padukone plays a wannabe actress. The two, who are childhood friends, fall in love at a tender age and then break up. The movie tracks their post break-up blues and how they handle to save their relationship despite being in two separate geographical locations. “Imran enacts Shah Rukh’s signature steps in the title track Dooriyan. He is also very fond of SRK, who is popular as the king of romance,” says Kohli.

In the past, Imran had reportedly hinted at Salman Khan in his debut movie Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’s song Pappu can’t dance (2008). Padukone, who launched her career with SRK in Om Shanti Om (2007), is a big fan of Khan. She too imitates him in the film. “In a drunken stupor in Break Ke Baad, she claims she is Shah Rukh Khan,” says Kolhi.