11 Years of Cocktail: Re-riding Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan and Diana Penty's emotional roller-coaster

11 Years of Cocktail: How often do you meet a stranger and they become a part of your life? A film that tells you about everything from the importance of friendship, accidental love to changing dynamics. Here's celebrating 11 years of Veronica (Deepika Padukone), Gautam (Saif Ali Khan) and Meera (Diana Penty) (Facts are sourced from IMDB)

Updated on : 13 July,2023 02:37 PM IST | Compiled by : Shachi Chaturvedi

Cocktail was released in 2012

'Cocktail' starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty, is a story of three friends Meera, Gautam and Veronica who got stuck in a love triangle

Directed by Homi Adajania the film was a semi-hit

The music of the movie was composed by Pritam, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Salim–Sulaiman

Deepika Padukone was given the first choice of playing Meera or Veronica and she chose the latter

Deepika chose to play Veronica because Meera's character was similar to her earlier character Meera in Love Aaj Kal

Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were offered the film but did not like the script

Director Homi Adjania collaborated with Saif Ali Khan for the second time after casting him in Being Cyrus

A film titled 'Cocktail' was being made in 2009 but got shelved

The original cast of Cocktail was different. it starred Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade, Prachi Desai, Genelia D’Souza, Neha Dhupia and Boman Irani in major roles

Anurag Kashyap was to write the story and screenplay of 'Cocktail' but later opted out

The film's first official trailer got a phenomenal response as its YouTube link got more than 1 million hits in just 3 days

Deepika Padukone was seen in a proper two-piece bikini for the first time in a film

The songs from the film became chart-busters soon after their release

Fans were upset when Honey Singh's song 'Angrezi Beat' was not included in the soundtrack

The apartment scenes shown in 'Daaru Desi' were shot with a green screen in the background of the apartment set

This is one of Deepika's most loved role of her career

Interestingly, earlier in their modeling career, Diana had replaced Deepika as Maybelline's brand ambassador

During the shoot, Kareena Kapoor joined Saif Ali Khan in London for a few days

The film is still a part of many favourite lists

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