{"id":4496,"date":"2015-05-16T20:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2015-05-16T20:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:44:26","slug":"people-want-to-adopt-me-deepika-padukone-on-piku-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"People want to adopt me: Deepika Padukone on \u2018Piku\u2019 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_bollywood\/article656_thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_bollywood\/article656_slide.jpg\" \/>Her act as a selfless daughter, who spends more time listening to her father\u2019s constipation tales than on her professional or marital pursuits in \u201cPiku\u201d, has garnered an \u201coverwhelming\u201d response for actress Deepika Padukone. But the most heartening has been the response from people who have expressed a wish to \u201cadopt\u201d her.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Shoojit Sircar, \u201cPiku\u201d is an endearing father-daughter tale, with megastar Amitabh Bachchan essaying the role of Deepika\u2019s onscreen dad. Their chemistry is natural, relatable and pleasing despite being one full of arguments. What also stands out is Deepika\u2019s subdued and subtle camaraderie with Irrfan Khan in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response has been overwhelming,\u201d Deepika told IANS in an interview post the film\u2019s release. Her character is independent and free-spirited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we had all thought that it\u2019s a sweet film and that people will connect with it, but none of us had expected it to become this big. It\u2019s gone beyond our own control. The biggest compliment for me has been\u2026 I know it may sound funny, but a lot of people want to adopt me,\u201d said the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>She says it\u2019s been the \u201cbiggest compliment\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_85494\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0Xmi-U1xnc?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her act as a selfless daughter, who spends more time listening to her father\u2019s constipation tales than on her professional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}