After shooting for Housefull, Deepika Padukone believes that comedy is tough business

She's four films old, has three more in her kitty is already a top name in the business. But when you meet lovely-looking Deepika Padukone, you realise she doesn’t have half the airs most A-listers make journalists suffer. We meet at the Yahoo! office in Lower Parel and surprisingly, she walks in dot on time. Along with her, come a swarm of photographers pushing to get a perfect picture. She doesn’t flinch, but the former model is happy to oblige to the relentless shutterbugs. The lens-men walk away only half -hour later, and we finally sit down for a chat.

Padukone, 23, has just returned from London after shooting for her first comedy, Sajid Khan’s Housefull. “It’s an out-and-out comedy, a genre really tough to get right,” she says. “You can’t do comedy well unless your comic timing is perfect. I’m lucky I had Sajid to guide me through it.” It must have also helped to have Akshay Kumar as a co-star, “Of course. Akshay is also so good at comedy. So, to have him around made it easier but also more challenging,” she says, earnestly.

Also in the making is Karthik Calling Karthik opposite Farhan Akhtar. “This is a complete thriller,” she tells us. “If you look at the past films that I’ve done, I think I have experimented with all there is. I’m not partial to any and I’m just glad that I’ve been able to do these films. But I have to say that comedy is tougher.”

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