She has one of the most striking faces we’ve seen on the silver screen recently. And at only 21 she managed to make her mark in Bollywood. Critics are even going as far as calling her the next best thing. All this before she’s even turned 23! We trace her eventful journey into the limelight as Deepika Padukone brings in her birthday.
Leggy lass Deepika has gorgeous long hair, a beautiful face with perfect features like full lips, a sharp nose, doe-shaped eyes and high cheekbones. So it was no surprise that modeling offers beckoned when she was in college. The former supermodel has walked the ramp at the Lakme and Wills India Fashion Week and for designers like Rohit Bal, Manish Malhotra, Vikram Phadnis, Rocky S and Tarun Tahiliani among others. She has graced the covers of high-end magazines like Elle, Vogue, L'Officiel, Hello!, Cosmopolitan and Femina. She shot to fame internationally when Maybelline cosmetics made her their brand ambassador in 200, after spotting her on the Kingfisher Calendar in 2006.
After becoming a popular face on the modelling and commercial (she has done ads for Liril and Close Up) circuit, she turned her eyes on Bollywood and landed a dream debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om. The film was a blockbuster and Deepika's performance as elegant 70's superstar Shantipriya and a bubbly present day SRK fan was appreciated along with her dancing skills. She swept up all the awards in the best debut category. After her debut film, she was seen as the smart and sexy taxi driver Gayatri alongside real life beau Ranbir Kapoor in YRF's Bachna Ae Haseeno which was a decent hit. She also trained hard in Jujitsu, a type of Martial Arts, for highly-anticipated Kung Fu comedy Chandni Chowk to China in which she plays an Indo-Chinese princess and a salesgirl opposite superstar Akshay Kumar.
Being as hot as she is, she obviously had a lot of boys vying for her attention. Deepika has an impressive list of boyfriends - models Upen Patel, Muzammil Ibrahim and Nihar Pandya. She then moved on to cricketer Yuvraj Singh before she hit the jackpot when she snagged the hottest bachelor in town: Ranbir Kapoor.
The two got close during the making of Bachna ae Haseeno in Australia. They got together in February 2008 during the Filmfare awards ceremony where they both won the best debut awards and have been inseparable ever since. They make a picture perfect couple and are so madly in love that Deepika has bought an apartment which is a stone's throw away from Ranbir's residence in Bandra. And an added advantage: the Kapoor Khandaan likes her too.
Deepika is also the beautiful face that is selling a gazillion products. Find the goddess smiling at mere mortals from gigantic billboards of Kingfisher Airlines, Parachute Oil, Pepsi (Yeh Hai Youngistaan, Meri Jaan), Tissot SA, Levi's Strauss, LG Viewty, Fiama Di Wills and Big Bazaar across the city.
Deepika is on a roll. She has a boyfriend and a career most girls would kill for. After CC2C, she will be seen sizzling in an item number with SRK in Billu Barber and in Imtiaz Ali's next film with Saif Ali Khan. We wish this remarkable young achiever a very happy birthday and many more successful years to come.
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