Deepika Padukone gained the Best Actress award on the 61st Filmfare Awards. She took the black girl residence for her title function in Shoojit Sircar’s Piku.
Deepika Padukone was positively one of many head-turners on the star-studded occasion. While her beautiful crimson ensemble grabbed plenty of consideration, it was her acceptance speech on successful the coveted award that took away the audiences’ hearts.
She learn out a heartfelt letter given to her by her father Prakash Padukone, India’s ace Badminton participant.
Dear Deepika & Anisha,
As you stand on the brink of life’s journey, I wish to share with you some classes that life has taught me. Decades in the past, as a little bit boy rising up in Bangalore, I began my tryst with badminton. In these days, there have been no stadiums and courts the place sports activities folks might practice. Our badminton courtroom was the marriage corridor of the Canara Union Bank close to our home, and it was there that I discovered every part in regards to the sport. Every day, we’d wait to see if there was a operate within the corridor, and if there was none, we’d rush there after faculty to play to our hearts’ content material. Looking again, I realise that a very powerful factor about my childhood and adolescent years was my refusal to complain about rather a lot in life. I used to be grateful for the few hours per week we had the chance to hit the shuttle forwards and backwards. In reality, the muse on which I primarily based my profession and my life was the refusal to bitch or whine about something. And that’s what I wish to let you know my youngsters, that there isn’t any substitute for perseverance, hardwork, dedication and keenness for what you select to do. If you like what you do, nothing else issues — neither awards nor compensation, not even the gratification of seeing your face in newspapers or tv. When I gained the All England Championship, the prize cash in badminton turned vital — £3,000 — an enormous quantity in these days. But that didn’t distract me from the sheer pleasure of getting been instrumental in placing India on the worldwide map of this sport. Deepika, at eighteen, while you informed us that you just wished to shift to Mumbai for a profession in modeling, we felt you have been too younger and too inexperienced to be alone in a giant metropolis and in an trade we knew nothing about. In the tip, we determined to allow you to comply with your coronary heart and thought it might be merciless to not give our baby the chance to go after a dream that she lived and breathed for. If you succeeded, it might make us proud, however even in case you didn’t, you wouldn’t have any regrets that you just didn’t strive. Deepika, I’ve discovered that you would be able to’t at all times win in life, that every part you need won’t come your means. That occasions don’t at all times end up as you need them to. To win some, you need to lose some. You must study to take life’s ups and downs in your stride. The quantity of effort that I put in my sport by no means assorted from the primary day until my retirement. Even throughout my hardest instances, I targeted on what I had, as a substitute of dwelling on what I didn’t. I had the power to make the perfect of the worst circumstances and stay steadfast to my purpose. Remember how I consistently let you know each in regards to the significance of creating your means up on this planet with out ready to your mother and father to tug strings? I consider it’s best for kids to work onerous to make their goals come true and to not have issues handed to them on a platter. When you’re residence visiting us, Deepika, you make your personal mattress, clear the desk after meals, and sleep on the ground if there are friends at residence. If you often surprise why we refuse to deal with you want a star, it’s since you are our daughter first and a movie star later. The cameras that comply with you in every single place and the arc lights will finally fade and what’s going to stay is the actual world. Strive to generate positivity round you although you’re too new and too small a participant to impact a giant change. You are in an trade the place there’s at all times going to be large cash, however I consider that it is very important attempt to be the perfect in no matter you do whatever the cash. The issues that actually matter in life are relationships, honesty, respect to your mother and father and elders. Material success is necessary, not basic to happiness and peace of thoughts. I can’t let you know sufficient in regards to the rejuvenating energy of prayers and a little bit religion. Spare a couple of minutes of your day to shut your eyes and meditate, to consider God and you will note how a lot religion in His energy will strengthen you. In the tip, when your profession is behind you, what stays is household, the chums that you’ve made. Live a life that’s wholesome and one that can permit you to reside with your personal conscience. Everything else is transient. And keep in mind, it doesn’t matter what, we’re at all times going to be there for you.
Lovingly,
Pappa
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