Deepika Padukone responds to veteran actress Hema Malini’s praises : Bollywood News

With her sweeping away several awards last year, Deepika Padukone is indeed considered as the 'Numero Uno' in Bollywood now. With this year also marking her Hollywood debut (XXX: Return of Xander Cage), Deepika Padukone is definitely on an all-time high. Her popularity and likeability is so huge that everyone just can't stop praising her. One of the testimonies to Deepika Padukone's popularity and likeability was recently witnessed in the form of the actress-turned-politician Hema Malini's answer, at a recently held function.

Deepika Padukone responds to veteran actress Hema Malini’s praises

During the function, when Hema Malini was asked as to which actress she would nominate for the tag of 'Dream Girl' from the recent lot, she was quite quick to take the name of none other than Deepika Padukone. Speaking about Deepika Padukone, the 'original Dream Girl' Hema Malini said that Deepika Padukone was a lovely girl who is doing well for herself. She even added that she liked Deepika Padukone a lot. Meanwhile, Deepika Padukone, who was extremely thrilled to receive such praises from Hema Malini herself, took to Twitter to respond to the same and said, "I love you too Hema Ji!"

Last seen in Bajirao Mastani, Deepika Padukone is now all set to collaborate with her favourite filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and her alleged beau Ranveer Singh for the third time for the director-producer's ambitious filmPadmavati.