Deepika rings in her father’s 70th birthday with an announcement
Deepika rings in her father’s 70th birthday with an announcement
Legendary actress Deepika Padukone on Tuesday (June 10) celebrated the 70th birthday of her father, legendary badminton player Prakash Padukone in style. She announced that their Padukone School of Badminton (PSB) will expand to “75 centres” within a year of its launch.
Adding that the school, launched last year, aims to build a healthier and focused generation that’s inspired by sport.
She shared the news in an Instagram post.
“As someone who grew up playing badminton, she has experienced firsthand how much this sport can shape one’s life – physically, mentally, and emotionally. Through Padukone School of Badminton (PSB), the Padukones pins hopes to bring the joy and discipline of Badminton to people from all walks of life, and build a generation healthier, more focused, and inspired by sport.
Even as Deepika serves as the founder of PSB, her father Prakash Padukone is on board as its mentor and adviser.
As per her post, the PSB plans to scale to 100 centres by the end of this year and 250 within the next three years.
In the past, the 39-year-old actor has often spoken about playing badminton in her growing up years in multiple interviews.
She reminisces that one morning she woke up and she said, ‘Ma, she has been thinking about this for a long time now. She has been playing badminton only and Papa wants her to but it’s not something that she enjoys doing and seriously wants to take up modeling and get into movies
Deepika turned a model doing advertisements and music videos.
Finally, she made her film debut in 2007 with Om Shanti Om, co-featuring Shah Rukh Khan.
The actress also runs The Live Love Laugh Foundation, a non-profit organisation aimed at mental health awareness and wellness. She was recently in news for her reported exit from Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Spirit following a fallout with the director over work hours and remuneration.
Deepika Padukone last week joined her Jawan director Atlee’s upcoming big-budget sci-fi movie with Pushpa star Allu Arjun.
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