To celebrate the event, an idol of the Srinivasa Perumal or Lord Vishnu, was brought from Tirupati to Puducherry in Srinivasa Kalyana Rath.

The year 2007 marked the big Bollywood debut of – Deepika Padukone alongside megastar Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om helmed by Farah Khan. The film was a superhit and one of the things that the audience remembers loved the most in the film was the song Deewangi Deewangi which saw several Bollywood bigwigs coming together for one shot each.

It read, “This award night, I knew about my cancer diagnosis, but I made a conscious choice to normalise it – not just for myself, but for all of us. This was the day that changed everything, it marked the beginning of one of the most challenging phases of my life. So Let’s do some affirmations.”

Furthermore she added, “We become what we believe in and I have decided to take this challenge as an opportunity to reinvent myself, again. I have decided to keep the spirit of positivity as the first tool in my toolkit. I choose to Normalise this experience for me and I have consciously decided to manifest the outcome I desire. For me ..my work commitments matter. For me my motivation, passion and art matters. I refuse to bow down. This award that I received right before my first chemo was not my motivation alone, infact I attended this event to reassure my self that I am living up to the benchmark, I have set up for myself. MIND OVER MATTER.”