Deepika Padukone pays courtesy visit to Salman Khan while filming Happy New Year

Chennai Express starlet Deepika Padukone is on cloud nine these days but still she has not forgotten her roots and always tries to stay grounded enough. While shooting for her upcoming film Happy New Year with Shah Rukh Khan at Mehboob studio, she came to know that superstar Salman Khan was also shooting for an ad film on a different set at the same studio. Keeping aside all ego hassles, she took some time out to catch up with the senior ruling actor Salman Khan.

Earlier Salman’s sister Alvira and brother Sohail Khan also paid a visit to the Happy New Year set, though the arch rivals of Bollywood, Shah Rukh and Salman avoided meeting each other. Reportedly Deepika stayed at Salman’s set for around 20 minutes to have a chit-chat with his next hero in Sooraj Bharjatya’s Bade Bhaiya. As revealed by a source, “Deepika is aware that even though they have called truce, things are far from fine between the two Khans. So it was really brave of her to leave her set and go on the ‘enemy’ set.”

“She went across to meet him when there was a tea break in the evening where Salman was sitting outside his van. Even though HNY director Farah Khan is a good friend of Salman’s, she stayed away from him as her hero was on the set,” the source added. After the chatting session got over, Deepika walked back to her van to resume shooting. The source added, “Salman has been praising Deepika to a lot of people. In fact, on a chat show where he went recently he expressed great admiration and respect for her as an actress. It is obvious he is keen to work with her.”