Deepika Padukone & Saif Ali Khan Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s account for 75% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Love Aaj Kal; the 2010s to Aarakshan. Deepika Padukone acted in every film; Saif Ali Khan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Imtiaz Ali cast them in Love Aaj Kal (2009) because he wanted two actors who could play the same character across two timelines. Deepika and Saif had to sync their body language so perfectly that the audience would believe they were the same person 40 years apart.
• On Cocktail (2012), Saif deliberately held back his usual comic timing to let Deepika own the room. He told the director that her character's breakdown scene needed silence, not his jokes. That scene became the film's most talked-about moment.
• During Race 2 (2013), Deepika and Saif had a running bet: whoever flubbed a line first had to buy the entire crew chai. Saif lost so often that the crew started calling him 'Chaiwala' on set.
• Saif once said about Deepika: 'She has this ability to make you look good even when you're doing nothing. In Cocktail, I just stood there and let her act. That's the smartest thing I did.'
• Their pairing in Love Aaj Kal (2009) directly led to Imtiaz Ali casting them again in a cameo for Tamasha (2015). That cameo — where they play a bickering couple in a restaurant — was written specifically because Ali missed their energy together.