She made her
acting debut in 2006 in the Kannada film ‘Aishwarya’.
Padukone then played a dual role in her first Bollywood release in 2007 Om Shanti Om and won a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Deepika had five film releases in 2010. In 2013, she established herself as a
leading actress of contemporary Hindi Cinema. In addition to acting, Deepika
has written opinion columns and has been involved with women’s health and
fitness magazine. She has always supported charitable organizations and has
performed for stage shows.
"Really #BELIEVE In YOURSELF!" - Deepika Padukone
(@deepikapadukone) - Top 10 Rules
Here are some rules listed as per the focusing on the opinion of the leading lady of bollywood.
Rule 1: Believe in yourself
Things will not always go your way and there will be times when things will
be difficult. You may want things to go certain way and they don’t go that way.
Throughout these years, one thing I(Deepika) have learnt to be patient and
believe in yourself. Don’t give up easily. There will be amazing people supporting
your vision saying “Yes, you can do this” and also some discouraging people
saying “Are you sure you wanna wait? Why don’t you try something else?”. I have
always had a clarity about what I want to do in my life.
Rule 2: Work harder
I work harder to prove to myself that I can really do this. Every film has
its own challenges and many people feel that film industry is all about glamour
and people here are very privileged. But that’s not true because there is lot
of hard work, commitment, dedication, sacrifices that goes into being who we
are and achieving what we do.
Rule 3: Stay Hungry
I am extremely ambitious and I exactly know what I want to achieve for
myself. It is a continuous process. Since childhood I know what I wanted to do
and today I am living that dream. But I am not satisfied and I want my hunger
and motivation to keep me going.
Rule 4: Be your own individual
I admire people for their performances but
I do not want my career to be like anyone else but my own. Even if I wanted to
be, it cannot be. I wanted to be remembered as my individual sense of style,
films, career, values or anything.
Rule 5: Be willing to commit
You want to keep on adding layers to
yourself, your life, your career. I don’t view Bollywood and Hollywood as a
separate career but it’s a one long journey wherein you will face new things
and new challenges. It’s a huge time commitment and I wanted to do this. I
don’t want to regret anything in my life and 10-20 years down the line I don’t want to thing that I
had missed the golden opportunity.
Rule 6: Do what you love
I do what I do and I do what I love. The
money happens to come and it means nothing. Even if you have everything in the
world and you are not happy; it means nothing. It doesn’t matter if money is
there or not there. I value quality time with my family, going on family
vacation, cooking a meal in kitchen, spending time with my friends, being
creatively satisfied with a film, going up on stage to receive film-fare award.
Rule 7: Be prepared to make sacrifices
You have to make some social sacrifices.
The biggest sacrifice for me is I don’t live with my family as I must move
away. Of course, there are days when over a meal, I don’t have my parents and
sisters to talk to about how my day was. Talking on phone and being face to
face is different. There are also sacrifices made on diet even though I am not
the one who puts on weight easily. I have to control my weakness for sweets and
chocolates.
Rule 8: Challenge yourself
As
an actor, you constantly look for challenges either in a kind of role or a
movie. ‘Cocktail’ movie was completely out of my comfort zone and it was the
right film for me. So I was also offered Fast and furious 7 which didn’t worked
out. Today when I look back, I feel like that it just wasn’t meant to me. But ‘xXx:
Return of Xander Cage’ was a perfect action movie with the right kind of
challenge in the right way.
Rule 9: Define Success for yourself
For me, to be truly successful is to be at
peace with myself and to be happy every day. Depression has taught me that my
life is very fragile and it made me value people, emotions and feelings.
Success is not the material thing and it is not the number because even if you
are number 1, you want to keep going or you can have X amount of money and so
on. As far as material things are concerned, people want more and more and
there is no end to it as it is human nature.
Rule 10: Have fun
Along with the intense hard work, the ,most important thing is that you must enjoy doing your work and enjoy at work too. I would like to share a recent incidence.When 1 year ago, I was offered a movie, I flew there and at midnight I and Vin had a professional photo shoot. I wasn’t even knowing that I am in or not. When Vin uploaded photos, I asked him it will mean that I am in, but he didn’t reply. I had journalist from India asking on a call that am I doing that film? I had no idea what to say.
So try to follow simple things as they may lead to your dream.
Thank you for your time.
