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Deepika Padukone on her equation with Ranveer Singh

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s chemistry on screen has always charmed the audience. Talking about her on screen and off screen chemistry with Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone said to a leading Indian daily,  “First of all, it’s about the characters we assigned. Be it Ram Leela, Bajirao Mastani – though I can’t say the same about Padmaavat—it is the script which lends us room to play these characters in a way that makes the chemistry conspicuous. Then, of course, it’s the director who extracts the emotion. You cannot create chemistry if you don’t trust your co-actor. Ranveer and I have that equation where we can just blindly trust each other.”

Meanwhile, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh have worked together in 3 movies, but none of these 3 movies had a happy ending. However, the actress hopes to do more films with Ranveer Singh which will have a happy ending.


Talking about her association with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, she said, “I do feel blessed. Because when I stepped into the industry ten years ago with Om Shanti Om, another Sanjay Leela Bhansali film was due for release at the same time. I couldn’t fathom that I could ever be his film’s lead character.”

Since then, Deepika has worked with Bhansali for three films. “More than the success of the film, he showered me with three very strong characters that left an indelible mark in the minds of cinema lovers. At the same time, when I sit down to tread the old memory lanes, it does feel like a blessing sometimes,” she added.

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Highlights:

  • Hamlet trailer lands with Riz Ahmed in the lead role
  • Film sets Shakespeare inside a wealthy British South Asian family
  • Directed by Aneil Karia and in cinemas 6 February 2025
  • Cast includes Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn, Sheeba Chadha and Art Malik

Riz Ahmed has entered Hamlet in a way British cinema has not quite seen. The new Hamlet trailer has been released by Universal, giving the first proper look at Aneil Karia’s modern take on Shakespeare and placing the story inside a British South Asian business empire. It is due in cinemas on 6 February, and the footage shows a tense, controlled Ahmed moving through grief, suspicion and family power.

The film teams Ahmed and Karia again after The Long Goodbye, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. That success informs this production. This is the first time a major UK studio release has grounded Hamlet within a South Asian household for a wide audience.

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