Ungrateful Deepika

Farah Khan, the ace director of Shah Rukh Khan- Deepika Padukone starrer Om Shanti Om and mentor of the actress, is miffed with the sexy starlet for not keeping in touch with her after the release of the film.

Farah is peeved at the ungrateful attitude of the newcomer and attributes it to the fact that Deepika considers her ‘useless’ for the time being as the impending motherhood would not allow her to direct any new film for a year or so.

Sources say that the sizzling hot and sexy actress has not bothered to get in touch with the gutsy director for months now after the release of her film. Even on Farah Khan’s birthday, when everybody from her directed films went to her home to wish her birthday, Deepika Padukone was conspicuous by her absence. Later, she sent a formal SMS wishing her happy birthday on January 9 and since then there has been no contact between the two ladies.

However, Farah Khan does not want to give importance to the issue saying that if it had been Shah Rukh Khan ignoring her or not keeping in touch with her she would have taken very seriously. Deepika did not matter much to her and so despite the feeling of hurt, does not nurse any grudges. Farah understands that this is the way of the world. People tend to ignore their mentors once they have tasted success and no longer need them. They move on to greener pastures.

Same is happening with Deepika Padukone too. She has been shooting in Australia for a Yash Raj film and no longer needs the help of Farah Khan. The latest sexy siren of bollywood has already bagged projects with prestigious banners like Yash Raj and is in talks with several others. So obviously, she has moved on in life and do not want to look back.

But except the dusky beauty Deepika, all other cast members like Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade from ‘Om Shanti Om’ keep in touch with Farah and she is very proud of this. Even the actors Sunil Shetty, Zayed Khan, Amrita Rao from earlier directed film ‘Main Hoon Naa’ keep in touch and come regularly to meet her.

It may be recalled that Deepika Padukone got a dream break in Farah Khan directed ‘Om Shanti Om’ and went on to become a star overnight. Her character of Shantipriya was very much appreciated by the audiences as well as industry watchers and she reaped the benefit by signing prestigious projects after the film became a super duper hit at the box office. Deepika has also been linked with dashing cricketer Yuvraj Singh and even celebrated her birthday with him in Australia where she had gone to his matches.