The pace of the last year has left the young actress breathless—both with exhaustion and exhilaration at having finally found her rhythm in Bollywood
As business journalists, we have learnt to listen to numbers. They, in turn, have told us compelling stories. In the past one year, there has been one set of figures which seem to be adding up faster than gold pieces in the early levels of Temple Run. They paint a fairytale for Deepika Padukone.
As Veronica, the material girl who embraces a lifestyle of ‘sex, drugs and rock-n-roll’, she was the character that everyone remembered long after they had left the theatre. Padukone says that Veronica is the toughest character she has ever played. Adajania, of Being Cyrus fame, had warned her early that this was a character that had been done many times by others. The performance could very easily look clichéd. She chooses to call it an “author-backed part”, one that she knew, as soon as she read the script, could stand out.
(This story appears in the 27 December, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)