Om Shanti Om turns 13 today. Deepika Padukone, who made her debut with the film, changed her social media name to Shantipriya which was her character name in Om Shanti Om. She also changed her DP and kept a still from the film. Shah Rukh Khan is also in the pic.
The film's anniversary also marks Deepika completing 13 years in the industry. In a past interview with Harper's Bazaar India, Deepika Padukone had opened up on her journey in Bollywood. She said, "I think I just walked into the unknown. We didn't watch too many movies growing up, and most of my childhood went into school coursework, and professional badminton. As a family, we led a very disciplined, structured life. Everything was planned. Cinema didn't feature too much, but whenever it did, it felt familiar. I always felt like this is what I was meant to do. And it all happened very quickly."
She had added, "Two years after I became a model, Farah [Khan] offered me Om Shanti Om. The rest of the journey, until a couple of years ago, was really about understanding, absorbing, and discovering Bollywood and myself, and making my mistakes along the way."
She added, "I felt I finally understood what the medium really is, and the impact cinema can have on people and society. I began to get more comfortable with myself, and everything just started making sense to me. When you see the film fraternity as an outsider, you imagine it to be a certain way, and I was not fearful anymore."
Deepika had recently spoken about the impact of Covid-19. She had said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has caused much turmoil; social isolation, uncertainty about the future and coping with academic pressures, to name a few. And a global crisis such as this often leads to or aggravates pre-existing mental illness."
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