A few days ago, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone were spotted together while leaving Mumbai’s T2 airport. They gave a lovely goodbye hug before going their separate ways. As expected, the moment grabbed a lot of eyeballs as both were in a relationship at one point. Incidentally, a few days before this video dropped, their old interview became a talking point on Reddit. It was published on Rediff in 2008 and had an excerpt from their conversation with People’s magazine. It appeared around two weeks before the release of their first film, Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008). The interview is heartening as they spoke about their first date and a lot more.
The date that had everything — lunch, cheesecake, long drive and Mr Bean! Ranbir Kapoor-Deepika Padukone’s rare 2008 interview resurfaces
A year before Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone had debuted in Saawariya and Om Shanti Om, respectively. Interestingly, both were released on the same day, that is, Diwali 2007. Deepika said in the interview, “This goes back to when we were shooting for our respective debut films and we had just heard about each other. We had common makeup artists – Bharat and Dorris. Dorris is really fond of us, and she told me that he is a really sweet guy and we should meet up… That’s when we first spoke and exchanged numbers. A few days later, almost around the same time (July 2007), he asked me out for lunch. He came and picked me up and we went to Celini at Grand Hyatt Mumbai for lunch.
Ranbir added that, “We just happened to spend the day together,” and Deepika spoke about it in a little more detail, “It was meant to be only lunch; but lunch became coffee; coffee became cheesecake; and cheesecake became movie.”
Ranbir Kapoor revealed, “Mr Bean’s Holiday is the movie we watched at PVR Cinemas in Juhu.” Deepika stated, “That didn’t end there. It became a long drive and then he dropped me home. We started seeing each other on February 23, 2008. It has been a year since we have known each other.”
When asked if they remember what each other was wearing on the first date, Ranbir Kapoor answered, “I clearly remember she was wearing a white ganji and white linen pants. She had her hair tied up in a bun.”
Deepika raised laughs as she revealed, “I don’t remember really. He was wearing layered clothes: a T-shirt and a half-sleeve shirt on top of it. Oh, how can I forget the ugly shoes that he had worn?… Now he has changed, he wears these really cool shoes. But at that point, the couple of times we met, he wore this pair of ugly shoes. I remember complaining about the shoes to him then.”
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