Deepika Padukone was 'scared' of working with late Irrfan khan

Deepika Padukone has opened up about her experience of working with the late actor Irrfan khan, admitting that she was initially scared of working alongside him.

In a resurfaced interview with PTI from back in the day, Deepika shared her thoughts about working with Irrfan and said, “I thought he would be an intense actor, an intense person, everything about him is intense, courtesy media’s perception."

"I thought he would be stern and not interact and look down upon me for being a commercial heroine. But he is very different from that," the Fighter actress said at the time.

Calling him “humorous” and “shy,” she also added, “He talks less but when he says, it is very funny. I think his comic timing is pretty untapped. And no amount of explanation can give justice to the fine talent that he is.”

For the unreversed, Irfan and Deepika shared the screen in the 2015 film Piku alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

In Piku, Deepika played the titular character who goes on a road trip with her father, played by Amitabh Bachchan, in a cab driven by Irrfan’s character Rana.

It is pertinent to mention here that actor Irrfan Khan passed away on April 29, 2020, in Mumbai after a long battle against cancer. He was 53.