How Deepika Padukone got chance in ‘Om Shanti Om’?
Sources from Bollywood have added that Deepika Padukone has been on a rise and rise ever since her big debut in ‘Om Shanti Om’ opposite superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Currently 10 years later, Deepika Padukone is the undisputed queen of Bollywood, sitting on the numero uno position since the last four years.
According to sources Deepika
was a model and was then walking at the Lakme Fashion Week for the ace designer
Wendell Rodricks. Simultaneously on the other hand, the makers of Om
Shanti Om were looking for a female lead and director Farah Khan asked Malaika
Arora to suggest a new model to star opposite SRK. Malaika who was friends with
Rodricks, got a suggestion from him to cast Deepika for the role.
Rodricks confirms the news,
saying that “He showed a collection called Isadora at Lakmé Fashion
Week it was a game changer for Deepika. Director Farah Khan asked my friend
Malaika to suggest a new model to star opposite Shah Rukh Khan for her new film.
He had suggested Deepika who was barely two years into modeling and made her
open the show and told Malaika that the first girl he was sending out was the
one he recommend. The rest is history."