Daughter of celebrated badminton player Prakash Padukone. She has been modelling appearances in print and television advertising campaigns for Liril soap, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many prestigious modelling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India, an annual jewellery exhibition. She hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international covergirl face.
At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, for Indian models and designers, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006, thus cementing her reputation as a supermodel. She also bagged two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in 2006 - Female Model of the year and Fresh Face of the year. She has been voted most Beautiful Indian Woman
Fans of Hindi films know that "Bollywood" (a combination of the names of two cities, Bombay and Hollywood, both major motion picture hubs in different parts of the world) is the collective term to indicate the films of India and several other nations. It is a term that many film fans (both American and Hindi) do not care for. Some Americans see it as a bastardization of their beloved Hollywood, CA while Hindi film fans suggest that the term relegates their art as secondary to American cinema. In reality, comparing Bollywood movies to Hollywood movies is a bit akin to comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. Their both fruit, but that is where the similarities end.
