Deepika Padukone has been playing a quintessential modern girl in most of her films released in the recent past be it ‘Love Aaj Kal’ or ‘Cocktail’ or the recently released ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’. She agrees with that but at the same time the actress says that she enjoys playing these parts as she knows the pulse of the youth, their trials and tribulations when it comes to balancing between their love life and career. “I won’t deny that I am repeating myself. But I also feel that these characters are slightly different from each other. Also, these are the kind of films I really enjoy doing. I understand what today youngsters are going through in terms of love, pain, priority where relationships are concerned, where your career is concerned,” the actress explains. “But playing Veronica in Cocktail was very different from the character Naina in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (YJHD) which is very different from my character in Love Aaj Kal. So if you see the line up of my other films besides YJHD this year – YJHD is very different from Chennai Express which is again very different from Ram Leela. However, Deepika gets defensive when told that the film and the role she played in Cocktail was a bit regressive as the film’s hero finally opts for a plain Jane that was played by actress Diana Penty. While Deepika’s character of Veronica was that of a super confident fiesty girl who is out there to have fun and enjoy herself. “Whether we like it or not that is the way society functions. Some of my own friends who were a certain personality type are so much in love with this one person that they don’t mind changing the person that they are to suit the guy. It happens to almost everybody,” says Deepika. “Secondly”, she continues, “Whether we like it or not guys are also like that. They want to date a Veronica but want to marry a Meera. I am aware that people found the film regressive. But I get very defensive when people say that the film was regressive because that is how the society functions.”
