Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar participated in a dialogue at Waves Summit 2025. The 2-day occasion goals to strengthen India’s media and leisure business with international participation. Deepika and Shah Rukh had a heartfelt chat, because the viewers listened to the 2 of them share insights about Bollywood and replicate on their journeys as artistes.
When the dialog steered to nepotism and the ever-relevant ‘insider and outsider’ debate, Deepika Padukone shared her take. The actress famous that phrases like “insider” and “outsider” are being mentioned just lately, as they weren’t that standard earlier than. She mentioned, “These are phrases that we appear to be discussing now… insider or outsider… After I started, it was only a new world. I used to be a seventeen-year-old lady who got here from Bangalore.”
Whereas she made her debut with the Kannada film Aishwarya in 2006, the actress opened up about her Bollywood debut, Om Shanti Om. “Farah Khan confirmed curiosity in casting me in a film. I used to be transitioning between Bangalore and Mumbai. She didn’t even audition me. I bear in mind doing a gathering along with her as soon as, and she or he mentioned, ‘I would like you to fulfill Shah Rukh as soon as.’ He was taking pictures for Chak De! in Australia at the moment. She mentioned we’d do a gathering as soon as he was again. That was it. For me, it simply occurred,” she added.
Elaborating on her profession as a mannequin earlier than, Deepika agreed that it helped her seize alternatives. Nonetheless, her dedication and fervour had been her final saviours. She mentioned, “In fact, I used to be a mannequin earlier than that. That they had seen a few of my work. However I by no means felt that I used to be an outsider making an attempt to make my place in a brand new business. I had the dedication, ardour, willpower and onerous work. These had been the issues that had been in my management. These had been the issues that had utilized to what I used to be captivated with.”
Deepika additionally recalled receiving love and heat from Shah Rukh on the units of Om Shanti Om. Throughout the dialogue, Shah Rukh additionally lauded Deepika as a brand new mom.
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