Bollywood's A-lister Deepika Padukone, who was at the centre of controversy ahead of the release of Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan for wearing a 'bhagwa' outfit in the popular song 'Besharam Rang' has opened up about the initial days of her Bollywood career in a recent interview.?
The actress, who made India proud by representing India at the Oscars and introducing the Academy Award-winning song 'Naatu Naatu' at the prestigious awards event, has revealed that it was superstar Salman Khan who was the first person from the Hindi film industry to offer her a film.
Moreover, some reports suggest that Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone were considered for on-screen pairings in many projects. However, those never materialized.?
During an interaction with Bollywood Hungama, Deepika Padukone revealed why she didn't work alongside Salman Khan despite being offered a film with the superstar.?
To this, the actress said that she was a model at the time and did not have the desire to become an actor. While she did not mention which film she had rejected, Deepika said, ¡°I was not ready for films. I didn't want to be an actor and then literally two years later, Om Shanti Om happened."?
However, when asked by a fan about teaming up with Salman someday, Deepika said, "We've always had this beautiful relationship and I'll always be grateful to him because he was of the first people to offer me a film. It was just a tragedy that I was not ready for it. I had just started modelling and somebody I had worked with mentioned my work to him or he saw it."?
Deepika, who's married to actor Ranveer Singh also said that she was grateful for the opportunity Salman wanted to give her. ¡°He saw potential in me when even I did not know I had it," she was quoted as saying.??
On the work front, Deepika will be next seen alongside Hrithik Roshan in Fighter. She said that after 15 years in Bollywood, she's finally going to share screen space with Hrithik and she hopes something similar would happen with her and Salman as well.?
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