Deepika Padukone revealed that Farah Khan put her in ‘Om Shanti Om’ without an audition: ‘I never felt that I was an outsider’. Hindi film news
Deepika Padukone recently talked about her Bollywood debut And said that she never felt like an outsider, because of all director Farah Khan. She shared it during the opening session of Waves 2025 in Mumbai, where she joined Shah Rukh Khan for a thing called The Journey, run by Karan Johar.
During the chat, Karan revealed the debate of Insider vs. outsiders in the Hindi film industry. Deepika, who entered Bollywood in 2007 Om Shanti OmSaid, “These are words that we are now discussing, internal sutra-Bahari. When I started, it was just a new world. I was a 16–17 year old girl, came from Bangalore, and Farah Khan showed me interest in shooting in a film. At that time when she was meeting a meeting.
First film
Deepika’s first film, ‘Om Shanti Om’ made her a star and marked the debut of one of the most successful career in today’s Bollywood.
Shah Rukh Khan, who did not even come from the background of the film, shared his experience of entering the industry. He said that when he came to Mumbai, he never felt like an outsider. “Jab Chief Yahan (Mumbai) came, I never thought that the main outsider Hoon Ice Lai Main Dunia’s part of this world, Nahi Ban Saukta … I was confident that this is my world … Mujah Laga Yahiya is mine.”
