Deepika Padukone – Net Worth, House, Cars (The Success Story)

Who is Deepika Padukone?

Deepika Padukone is one of the prominent Bollywood actresses with an impressive record of box office hits and ad endorsements to her credit.  She has been among highest paid Bollywood actresses since 2013, reaching the status of being among one of the top highest paid actresses in the world. The model-turned actress was born on January 5, 1986 but spent her growing years in Bangalore, where she studied and learns badminton. Her father is the former badminton player of international repute, Prakash Padukone, while mother Ujjala has her own travel agency. Her sister Anisha Padukone is a golfer.

Though she represented her state in several national –level badminton championships, Deepika naturally veered towards modeling. Her first movie was ‘Aishwarya’ a Kannada film which released in 2006. A year later, Deepika debuted in her first Bollywood film ‘Om Shanti Om’ opposite the biggest Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. The movie was a run-away box-office hit. After a spate of flops and lukewarm hits, her career got a turning point in 2012 with the success of the movie ‘Cocktail’. After this, all of her movies released in 2013 were super hits, earning monies in excess of USD 16 million (INR 100 crores). Chennai Express, one of the movies released in 2013, which had her giving one of her career-best performances, earned $64 million, becoming the second biggest Bollywood hit worldwide in terms of revenue. In 2014, Deepika starrer ‘Happy New Year’ earned $57 million, becoming the 5^th highest grossing film worldwide.

Piku released in 2015, was one of the biggest hits of the year, rated very high by critics and people in general.  The movie also had her essaying one of her career-best performances.  Deepika’s performance in Piku won her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Deepika starred in ‘Bajirao Mastani’ in 2015, made on a lavish scale by director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. With this movie,she became the highest paid actress in India. The movie went on to becme one of the biggest hits of the year. In 2018, another Sanjay Leela Bhansali -directed ‘Padmaavat’, the controversial movie based on Rani Padmavati released and went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year.

 

Affairs

Deepika Padukone was linked to Upen Patel during the modeling days but her first boyfriend was Nihar Pandya. After they drifted apart, following her success in Om Shanti Om, she briefly dated Yuvraj Singh. Deepika Padukone was into a relationship with Ranbir Kapoor for two years before they broke up, with Deepika alleging that he cheated on her. In 2011, Deepika was dating Siddharth Mallya, son of one of India’s wealthiest businessmen and liquor baron Vijay Mallya. After the relationship went kaput, the media began to report about the relationship between Deepika and co-star Ranveer Singh.

Though Deepika was not vocal about her personal life, she began to talk about Ranveer in admiation and love in 2017. In November 2018, the couple married in Lake Como, Italy.

 

 

How tall is Deepika Padukone ?

At 5 feet 9 inches, she is one of the tallest actresses in Bollywood.

Battle with Depression

She has also been on the forefront when talking about feminism and depression. She has  especially talked about her challenge in personal life, where she overcame depression which loomed on her at a time, when her professional life was going great guns.  In 2015, Deepika formed an organization known as ‘The Live Love Laugh’ Foundation.  She also became the brand ambassador to the Indian Psychiatric Society, an NGO.

Brand endorsements

The 5 feet 8 ½ inch tall Deepika endorses L’Oreal, Garnier, Nescafe, Maybelline, Tissot, Sony Cybershot, Pepsi, Axis Bank and Vogue Eyewear.   She signed a 1 million USD contract with Garnier ( 60 million INR) in 2012. Her net earnings as listed by Forbes is $6,600,000,her sponsorship earnings from various brands comes to $1,090,000 and her property at Prabhadevi Mumbai is worth $3,470,000. Deepika Padukone is known to charge an estimated Rs. 6 to 8 crore per endorsement.

Business Interests

In 2013, Deepika launched her own clothing line in association with ‘Van Heusen’ for women. In 2015, she tied up with Myntra to launch a clothing line called ‘All About You’

Cars that Deepika Padukone owns

The ‘Piku’ star owns an Audi Q7 (worth 70 lakhs INR), Audi A8 (worth 1.7 crore INR). Her other toys include a BMW 5, Range Rover, Mini Cooper and a Mercedes Benz G63.

Deepika Padukone – House

Deepika Padukone lives in a swanky apartment in a high-rise building called ‘Beau Monde’ (33 storey tower) in Prabhadevi, Central Mumbai. She bought the house for a whopping Rs. 16 crore. Deepika stays on the 26^th floor in tower B. The apartment has a parking area for three cars. The carpet area of the house is 2,776 square feet and is close to Siddhivinayak temple, a prominent landmark in Mumbai.   The complex also has two tennis courts, squash and badminton courts. Deepika also has another house in Pali Hill, Bandra.

 

Trivia about Deepika Padukone

She is known to be a reticent person by nature, who is not known to speak much and speak only when spoken to, unless she is in a company of close friends and family. Deepika is known to be a good listener. She is known to be meticulous with planning, making a list of things that she would like to do on a daily basis. Deepika is also a self-confessed foodie with weakness towards chocolates and South Indian food, rice and rasam.

 

Deepika Padukone – Net Worth and Salary

She is the highest paid actress in Indian cinema today. Deepika Padukone’s net worth is $15 million (INR 110 crore). She was paid INR 8 crore for Bajirao Mastani, after which her market price jacked up to Rs. 10 crore. For Padmavat, she was paid a whopping Rs. 12 crore.  The market fee for Deepika Padukone is justified because as on 2018, she has 7 movies that have rushed pass the coveted Rs.100 crore figure.

Deepika Padukone is among the top 5 richest Indian celebrities as on 2018, according to Forbes. She was at the number 5th position and also the only woman in the list. From the period October 2017 to September 2018,  Deepika earned Rs. 112 crore.

 

Deepika is also a part investor in Epigamia, the Greek Yogurt company launched in India, in 2015. Even though her take-home salary for a movie may be lesser than Hollywood counterparts, she has a huge list of endorsements which includes big brands like  Coca Cola, Axis Bank, Van Heusen, Nike, Kellogg’s, Tissot, Vogue and Tanishq.  She also has her own designer clothes label called ‘All About You’ for online shopping site Myntra and has also invested in online furniture company called Furlenco and beauty products website called Purplle.

Deepika Padukone’s salary per year is an average of Rs. 21 crore or $3 million.