Deepika Padukone made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om contrary Shah Rukh Khan. Post this, there was no looking back for her as she went on to give numerous blockbusters. In her career gauging over further than a decade, Deepika has worked with numerous stars and A-lister actors but noway with Salman Khan. That’s indeed relatively surprising. But did you know that the Sultan actor was the first person from the assiduity to offer Deepika a film but she refused it?
In a recent interview with Bollywood Hungama, the Piku actress has revealed the real reason why she refused her big debut in a Salman Khan film. Deepika revealed she was still a model at the time and didn’t wish to come to an actor. While replying to an addict’s question about teaming up with Salman eventually, the Gehraiyaan actress explained, “ We have always had this beautiful relationship and I will always be thankful to him because he was of the first people to offer me a film. It was just a tragedy that I wasn’t ready for it. I had just started modelling and notoriety I had worked with mentioned my work to him or he saw it.”
She added she wasn’t ready for films. She did not want to be an actor and also literally two times latterly, Om Shanti Om happen to her. Salman saw implicit in her when indeed she didn’t know about it. Deepika further mentioned that after 15 times, she has got a chance to work with Hrithik Roshan in ‘Fighter’ and she hopes to work with Dabangg Khan one day.
Interestingly, Salman and Deepika may not have worked together in any films but the actress frequently appears on his popular reality show Bigg Boss to promote her pictures. In the rearmost concluded season, Deepika visited the show to promote her film Gehraiyaan and joked that Salman is the actor she stocks the most on social media.
Talking about not working with Deepika in any film, Salman had earlier told DNA in 2020, “ Deepika is a big star, so it has to be worth her while to do a film with me. Right now, there’s nothing.”