Deepika Padukone's Interview to Maharashtra Times

Hello friends Do u know what’s the best thing about u all youngsters? Your fearless reaction n thoughts about anything. You feel like giving opinion about anything and u give it as if u don’t know fear, hesitation. The way u express ur views about anything fearlessly on social networking sites n also stand for it in front of everybody, its really appreciable. One more thing about u all is ur confidence. The confidence with which u face things is incredible. Ur generation is smart n intelligent. If anything wrong happening in society u all come together to fight against it. Even if there is competition in between u for ur careers u all stand together against the wrong. I saw this Unity in u all recently while protesting against Delhi gang rape incidence. U all fought together for the justice for the girl. U started talking about man-women inequality. Ur contribution, Ur discussion, Ur fight against wrong, that’s what I like the most.

I don’t understand y there should be inequality between man-women. Even if there is physical difference between both, today both are do equal work. Today u work together in many fields. So what are the carrier opportunities u know better than me. Women have the same career opportunities as men. In fact women definitely have more ability than men. Women can do many things. She looks after ur House, Family, Work in office, even looks after home, n all this at a time. Such power n ability men don’t have.Most of Girls are often told Don’t go out in night, don’t go alone anywhere. I don’t agree with this. After Delhi incidence it is said that Delhi is unsafe, but why to blame city because of some people wrong doings? Instead of this we need to think about what has happened. There are many getaways in our legal system. Our law process is very slow. Because of which it takes a long time to punish the guilty. And getting justice also depends on who wants the justice. Its just meaningless. Our law process needs to be loyal n true. because of all this fuzz the criminals are beneficial. Their belief that ‘who’s goanna mess with me?’ Is getting stronger. We should break this belief, punishment is necessary but also faster. And I am sure u’ll take necessary steps to do it.

Ur Self-confidence, ur Unity, ur Spirit will be beneficial here. Because I am young like u I can understand u. I can get easily get connected with u all because of ur way of thinking, the way u see things, I see my self in ur activities. U have a lot of power don’t use it in wrong place use it against the wrong things. And I am sure something good will definitely come out of it.

Deepika Padukone after her debut in “Om Shanti Om” has got attentions of lot of people. She made her mark in a decent role in OSO. But not remaining in the same kind of role she showed how versatile actor she is. Veronica from “Cocktail” is the best example of it..she also did the same kind of bold role in race2. Her terms for selecting the movie are fixed. She says ” I accept the role only if it is challenging, my heart tells me which role I should select n which I shouldn’t  ”
1.     Where u worried while doing race2 coz it was a squeal ?
Ø Squeals are made with a point of view that it should be Bigger n Better  than the 1^st. So there were no worries. In fact I enjoyed doing the movie. I got lot of things to learn.

2.     What are ur terms for selecting a movie ?
Ø Before accepting a movie I ask myself. What my heart tells me I do that. If I feel excited while hearing the story of the movie, then only I accept the movie. As an actress if the role is challenging then only I like to do that role. My heart tells me which movie I should accept n which I shouldn’t.

3.     How much do u agree with the tag line of race 2 ”Betrayal is survival” ?
Ø Whatever work u do loyalty n truthfulness is must. To win any competition betraying anyone is not correct. There are my ups n downs in life through which only trust can get u out.

4.     Where do u see yourself in the race of being no1 ?
Ø Currently every heroin in the industry has her unique identity for herself. Each actress are acting good. I don’t fear of the competition. In fact because of my sports background I love competition. If in any competition there are no competitors then where’s the fun in it ? I believe in competing with any one without any fight.

5.     Recently u n Priyanka had become good friends. Who are ur best friends in industry ?
Ø Truly speaking school friends are the one who are very close to me. They know me form childhood. So the friendship with them is the true friendship. Now there are many friends in industry. Priyanka and my friendship is not new. We are friends for a very long time. I know Priyanka before I came in the industry n even before I came into modeling. People are seeing us now together so that might be surprising for them.

6.     How was it working with RAJNIKANT in kochidyan?
Ø Awesome! I would love to learn to be decent n simple living as he is. He never makes u realize that he is the “Superstar Rajnikant”. He acts very simple.

7.     In the journey “OSO to Cocktail” did u changed? If yes what changed?
Ø In this journey I feel a lot confident. And more importantly I have stabilized in this industry. Now I’m more comfortable facing camera n talking to new people. When I came here from Bangalore not only the career was new but it was also a new way of living. So I had to change a lot in me. Now the industry has become mine. Now this all has become my family.
8.     How do u see success n failure?
Ø Since from the beginning because of the sports environment at home facing these both things was a lot easy. It’s important to see that u shouldn’t get over excited with the success, and also not get depressed by the failure. Success or failure don’t last for the whole life..


9.     Getting the stardust at such a young age, What difference has it made in life?
Ø The way I see nothing has changed. Some people say that I changed after becoming a star. But its not true. As the people of my age work in different fields or have business of their own just like that I work as a actress. Difference is that my field of work n because of which me also are talked on TV, news channels so we have the  Glamour. Maybe because of that people might be thinking different.
1.  Truly speaking glamour affects personal life, is it annoying?                                                     
Ø The moment u become a star or a celebrity from the same moment people become more interested in u, become more curious about u. People feel like knowing them more n more. What’s happening in their lives, People want to read it n talk about it. And it’s obvious when I was in school I too felt the same curiosity for the stars, today I’m on its opposite side i.e. I’m the part of industry now. And yes some times when false things are written about me it’s hurting. Sometimes its gossip, sometimes its rumors. I don’t pay attention to these things, instead of it I concentrate on my work.


1.    Have came across any failures or disappointments...? How did u handle ur self..?
Ø By God’s grace I didn’t had to face any of it. I never had to ask myself  “why I am here”, but sometimes ur movies doesn’t work then I think why did I did this movie or if I did it I should have done better than this.! Then realizing what went wrong I try not to do the same mistake again. Working in a movie is kind of a risk. Our career changes Friday to Friday. So while selecting a movie u have to think a lot n be cautious would like to tell this that our audience is really understanding. It’s not like that if any of ur movie doesn’t do good it doesn’t mean ur not their star anymore. The reason behind it is the people not only love ur work but also Love u.
1. Any incidence with any fan….
Ø I get a lot of mails and many of them are from girls. They take my roles in the movie as their role model. And for boys there are many marriage proposals. I would like to tell u 1 incidence., a boy from Maharashtra sent me a mail that he’s going to Bangalore and he was not asking the permission but was telling me. His tickets n all were booked. He was going to Bangalore to ask my father to marry me. But later what happened to him I don’t know. My Dad also never said anything about it.