# Deepika Padukone borrowed Rs 10,000 to shoot portfolio, says mother was strict 2026-11-12T14:19:36+00:00 | Entertainment | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Outlets counted: economictimes.indiatimes.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has recalled borrowing Rs 10,000 from her mother Ujjala to shoot a portfolio during her modelling days, promising to repay the money and make her proud. She shared the anecdote in a chat with Ellen DeGeneres, adding that her father, badminton player Prakash Padukone, always told her to ‘follow your heart’. The actress said she knew by age 16 that she wanted to act. The Economic Times reports Padukone is now the highest-paid actress in Bollywood with a net worth of Rs 500 crore. She made her acting debut in the Kannada film ‘Aishwarya’ in 2006 and her Bollywood debut in ‘Om Shanti Om’ (2007) opposite Shah Rukh Khan. Her upcoming film ‘King’, also starring SRK, is highly anticipated. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both sources carry near-identical wire copy built around Deepika Padukone’s anecdote of borrowing Rs 10,000 from her mother. The Times of India leads with the Rs 10,000 loan and her childhood ambition, then lists her filmography. The Economic Times frames the same anecdote around her current Rs 500 crore net worth and devotes more space to her luxury lifestyle, including properties and cars. Neither outlet deviates from neutral-reporting: both simply repeat the same story, one with a softer celebrity-memory lead, the other with a wealth-angle lead. The only factual difference is the Economic Times’ additional mention of her Kannada debut in ‘Aishwarya’ (2006) and her mother’s discipline, drawn from a separate interview. The coverage is uniformly straight, with no editorial stance on any government or political issue. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Neutral wire copy, celebrity-memory lead - economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Neutral wire copy, wealth-angle lead with lifestyle details This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Deepika Padukone, Ellen DeGeneres, Om Shanti Om, Prakash Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/deepika-padukone-borrowed-rs-10000-to-shoot-portfolio-says-mother-was-strict/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/deepika-padukone-borrowed-rs-10000-to-shoot-portfolio-says-mother-was-strict/#story-in-brief Gate decision: pass (pass: linked qualifying outlets 2 of 2, relevance 6) Freshness: pass (fresh: newest qualifying source 2026-11-12 10:01Z (feed), 4.3 h old) Image: photograph. Source: https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-135764365,imgsize-318236,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/when-deepika-padukone-took-rs-10000-from-her-mother-id-make-you-proud.jpg. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/