Hot on the heels of the release of Happy New Year on Friday, producer and actor Shahrukh Khan has had only praise for his heroine Deepika Padukone. OneIndia.in reports…
Shahrukh Khan, the producer and hero of Deepika Padukone’s debut film Om Shanti Om, says she has paved the way for her own success and that she always had it in her to be a “star”.
Shahrukh and Deepika worked under Farah Khan’s direction for Om Shanti Om, and the team has joined hands again in Happy New Year. In the gap of seven years, Deepika has established herself as one of the reigning beauties in Bollywood and Shahrukh feels the success is “all hers”.
“I have nothing to do with her (Deepika’s) success. It’s all hers. You can’t take credit away from someone,” Shahrukh said.
Citing his own example, SRK said that when he worked on his debut film Deewana, veteran actors like Rishi Kapoor and Amrish Puri were very nice and kind to him. “I must have made mistakes, I must have been good and bad,” Shahrukh said as he mulled over his own journey.
But then, talking of Deepika, he said, “I think Deepika was always a star. Since she was new (in the industry), we did the Aankhon mein teri song and we showed it to Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan). He said, ‘She is a very huge star’. She was a supermodel at that time, so it’s not something we (Farah and I) have done.
“I haven’t worked with her for seven years, but I think she has it all. As a friend, I told her to always do a film where you feel comfortable with the people around. She has made wonderful choices, whether it’s Cocktail or Finding Fanny. She has chosen some highly commercial films too; she has made the right choices.”
Meanwhile, OneIndia.in reporter Nandhini reports that the actress feels that acting cannot be learnt.
Deepika, who has proved her mettle and versatility, film after film, said the art of acting cannot be learnt.
“I believe acting is about being real, and I don’t think you can learn acting,” she was reported to have said.
However, with experience and over time, she has realised that “the best way to learn acting is to observe people and be on the sets”.
In Happy New Year, a bunch of awkward dancers – Shah Rukh Khan leads the star cast that comprises Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Sonu Sood – take part in an international dance competition in an attempt to pull off a bank robbery in Dubai.
Happy New Year will see the team of Farah Khan-Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone reunite after the 2007 blockbuster Om Shanti Om.
In an interview Farah Khan said: “A part of Happy New Year is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the ‘80s”. – oneindia.in