Deepika is cheapness ki Dukaan: Ranbir Kapoor

Often, when just friends' in the tinsel town take their relationship to another level and affirm their long coveted romance, media intrusion and updates on their budding relationship are bound to happen. As the relationship ends, the tag of even just friends' gets over which either turn them into hoes or force them not to make an eye contact in any social gathering. But for suave actor Ranbir Kapoor and graceful Deepika Padukone, none of these assumptions hold any value. In the past, they have not only come clean about their breakup, but also did not hesitate to sign up a movie together.

As the duo will soon be seen on the big screen on November 27, with Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha. The leading on-screen pair of Bollywood were in the capital to celebrate Diwali with the media. Talking about their Diwali plans, Padukone shared that it is actually choti diwali, which is the day of Diwali for them. "For us, the day is different and more than the rituals, I think the feeling and emotions matter more on this festival."

Kapoor, on the other hand, shared that his father insists that her and his mother should at least light up aphool jhadi. "We tell him that we are done with crackers but he believes in the tradition and asks us to follow it," he said.

For both of them, the festival holds more importance as they started their careers around the same time eight years ago. Talking about the same, Padukone reminisced, "Back then, we were raw and nervous about our first film. For no fault of ours, we were pitted against each other." Ranbir intruded and said, "But I remember, as our films released, within a month we were shooting in Australia for Bachna Ae Haseeno."

Padukone continued as she shared, "It's nice to see the kind of person he is, the kind of films he has done. Working with him makes you a better person and an actor because he is so good at what he does. It makes you look so good on screen."

While Padukone left everyone guessing what would Kapoor's reaction would be, he very casually said, "I am just taking in the compliments (laughs). She is not very good at giving compliments, to which she quickly replied, "That's not true."

As Kapoor started talking about her, he responded with the same gush as Padukone had praised her. He said, "We have all have seen Deepika's immense growth as an actor. I feel the most creatively satisfied working with Deepika. When I worked with her in Bachna Ae Haseeno, she was a very different entity. She was more shy, demure and little bit of introvert. But when I worked with her Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, it was a sudden leap and understanding of cinema and life that I noticed in her. And now we are working in Imtiaz's film together. The director we both admire and respect so much.

The actor did not stop here and teased Padukone by calling her a cheapness ki dukkan' (in a good way). "She apart from all the grace and dignity is a cheapness ki dukan. She is a mastikhor. If you speak to her at her best then she is really someone you can have fun with. You can speak with her, you can do cheapganpati dance with her and she reciprocates very well," he said. Padukone quickly in her defense said, "You are ruining my reputation. And the cheapness is talking about; he has taught me all of it. He instilled these values in me." (laughs) Talking about their forthcoming movie, Tamasha, they informed that the movie has been shot in Delhi and parts of Gurgaon. Kapoor elaborated, "My character becomes a product manager and as Gurgaon is the kind of corporate hub, Imtiaz wanted to show that in his movie. He justifies Delhi like no other director because he understands the heart of it."

Whereas, Padukone shared, "It is about a person who is not able to follow what he wanted to do. There's a lot of pressure from his family to be someone he is not. He starts losing himself in the process and becomes someone else. He becomes bored, jaded and he starts falling into the trap of life he doesn't enjoy. He requires a Tara in his life to pull him out of that situation to make him understand the person he really is."

While many actors can only accept the love and praise that is showered on them but Kapoor did not hesitate a second to say, "If I can accept the love and praise, I should also accept the criticism. I very well deserved it." He further added, "Having said that, I have immense love and support for the fans and people I work with, I hope I can reciprocate that by doing good films. But the success and a failure of a movie is not in my hands. For me, the desire is to prove myself and start from scratch."

Padukone again came to his rescue and commented, "There is nothing to prove himself again about. Every individual goes through ups and downs. And most importantly, it is the intention that matters. When he does a film, his intention is never to make a flop film. We all go ahead with the intention of making a great film and I haven't come across anyone as passionate as him when it comes to making films and acting. The intentions and heart is always in the right place, but sometimes, may be it is the execution and the way the script is interpreted by the director and may be the story is not relevant at that certain point comes our way. But I don't think at any point, you can question his intentions or his talent and you have to give every film of his a fair chance irrespective of what he is coming out of."

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