‘Sisters More Than Mother-Daughter’: 39-Year-Old Deepika Padukone To Play 24-Year-Old Suhana Khan’s Mom In Shah Rukh Khan’s King? Netizens React

Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s jodi is loved by the audiences. In fact, SRK’s top 3 highest-grossing films, Jawan, Pathaan, and Chennai Express; all featured Deepika in it, and people had started calling her his lucky charm. Now, after Jawan, they were reportedly going to team up for Pathaan 2, but it looks like before that movie, we will get to watch the SRK-Deepika’s jodi in King. According to a report in Peeping Moon, the actress has been roped in to star opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Siddharth Anand’s directorial.

The report states that Shah Rukh Khan will be seen as an assassin in the film, Deepika will play the character of Suhana’s mother, who is the former lover of SRK’s character. The actress will be having an extended cameo in the movie. Well, the plot sounds very interesting, but netizens have mixed reactions to Deepika playing Suhana’s mother as the two only have 14 years of age gap.

A netizen made a collage of Deepika and Suhana’s pictures and wrote, “Deepika Padukone will play Suhana Khan's mother in SRK's #KING movie and they two already giving major mother - daughter vibes.”

Replying to this, a fan of SRK wrote, “Sisters more than mother daughter as deepika is only 14-15 years older.” One more X used posted, “Deepika looks like an elder sister.”

Meanwhile, SRK fans are very happy that the superstar’s lucky charm has joined the cast.

Deepika Padukone Gearing Up For Big Comeback

It looks like Deepika, who is currently on maternity leave, is planning a big comeback. While there are already reports of her doing the sequel to Kalki 2898 AD, a few days ago, there were reports that she would be seen in an extended cameo in Love & War opposite Ranbir Kapoor, and now, this report of her starring in King.

Surely, Deepika will be back with a bang!