Deepika Padukone’s 2025 has looked a bit like a rollercoaster. Fast, surprising, and full of sharp turns. At the beginning of the year, she was leading two huge pan-India projects. Now, she is ending the year as the face of two ‘different’ big films. Somewhere in the middle, the scripts changed, the teams changed, and even Deepika herself seemed to change.

In a new interview, the actor opened up about this shift. Speaking to ‘Harper’s Bazaar India’, Deepika said something that many did not expect from one of Bollywood’s biggest stars: big-budget films no longer thrill her. What excites her now is something simpler, and possibly deeper.

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“Honestly, how much more fame, how much more success, how much more money?” she said. “At this stage, it’s not about that anymore. It’s not

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