Deepika Padukone & Salman Khan Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s belonged to Main Aurr Mrs Khanna; the 2020s to Pathaan. Deepika Padukone acted in every film; Salman Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Salman Khan personally recommended Deepika Padukone for the lead role in 'Main Aurr Mrs Khanna' (2009) after being impressed by her debut in 'Om Shanti Om'. He told the director, 'She's the one.'
• In 'Pathaan' (2023), Salman Khan's cameo as Tiger was shot in just two days. Deepika later said he improvised the iconic 'bade bade deshon mein' line on set, and she couldn't stop laughing between takes.
• The success of 'Pathaan' (2023) directly led to the announcement of 'Tiger vs Pathaan' — a crossover film that only exists because Deepika and Salman's on-screen clash became the most talked-about cameo in Indian cinema history.
• Deepika and Salman have a running joke about their height difference. On the sets of 'Zero' (2018), Salman would deliberately stand on a box during their scenes together to make the gap even more ridiculous, and Deepika would retaliate by wearing the highest heels she could find.
• Deepika Padukone on Salman Khan in a 2023 interview: 'He has this way of making you feel like you're the only person in the room. On the set of 'Pathaan', he'd pull me aside and say, 'Just trust the scene, I've got your back.' And I did.'
• In 'Zero' (2018), Deepika played a fictionalized version of herself. Salman's cameo as himself was the only scene where both actors played 'real' versions of their public personas — and they deliberately broke the fourth wall, winking at the audience about their own off-screen friendship.