Deepika was born in 1986 in Bangalore, India. Her modeling career started off with advertisements campaigns for Liril Soap, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca etc. After that she received many celebrated modeling contracts

Now that she has achieved quite good success on the runway, Deepika is doing her first Bollywood film with none other than Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om. This Farah Khan movie is her first in Bollywood but not her debut in films; she just finished the film-‘Aishwarya’ in Kannada. So what does this much talked about new comer has to say regarding her talents and assets, “I don’t mind wearing a bikini because I know that I can carry one off well. As long as I am enjoying, I have no qualms whatsoever.”