The nation first saw her in Himesh Reshammiya's music video, Naam Hai Tera, all the way back in 2006. That was the time she was a year away from her big Bollywood debut in the form of Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om opposite Shah Rukh Khan. We don't need to give you any further hints, the subject de jure is Deepika Padukone, who turns 34 today.

Today, when we talk about Padukone, we talk about the aforementioned reincarnation drama that consolidated her clout in the industry, we talk about her collaborators with the master and the maverick filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and her major debut in Hollywood with xXx: Return of Xander Cage.