Deepika Padukone was asked to smoke up before she started shooting for the Dum Maaro Dum song "to get into the mood." But Dips flatly refused to do so. She felt it wasn't necessary to light up (which she considers a bad and unhealthy habit) to get into the groove. Her logic was that she could do it any which way being an actor.
Her director Rohan Sippy confirms, "It is true that I had advised her to smoke up but she told me that she just won't do it. We understood her logic and did not push her."
People are really pushing the buck when it comes to method acting, no?
