Deepika's Performance in LAK through Critic Reviews!

Deepika Padukone is the real surprise. Looking her best ever, Deepika delivers a surprisingly effortless performance. A scene where she checks herself out in the mirror before heading for a date is a gem of a moment. And yes! For the first time we discover that the girl knows how to cry.
-Anand Vaishnav (Buzz18)

Both Saif and Deepika come up with their career-best performances in LOVE AAJ KAL. Deepika looks ethereal. Most importantly, in LOVE AAJ KAL, she acts very, very well. Matching up to Saif is no mean achievement and she does it in several scenes. This should be the turning point in her career.
-Taran Adarsh

Deepika is definitive and strong as Meera, the modern girl who has an individuality of her own.
-Nikhat Kazmi, TNN

Deepika Padukone puts in an equally compelling act and shares superb chemistry with Saif.
-Gaurav Malani/INDIATIMES MOVIES

Deepika wins hearts not just by looking extremely attractive throughout but also with the effortless ease she portrays her complex character
-Blog Taragana

As for Deepika, she is looking her age and has delivered one of her best performances ever. The chemistry between the duo is casual and sans any melodrama, making is increasingly believable.
-Spicezee Bureau

Deepika comes out shining. Put her in the hands of a good director and she can do wonders. Imtiaz coaxes out a good performance from her. But believe me; this girl can do much, much better. She stands up to the much-experienced Saif Ali Khan in the lighter moments as well as the more intense ones. If she makes the right choices, she will be an actress to watch out for.
-Martin D'Souza, Bollywood Trade News Network

Deepika Padukone's cool demeanor and gorgeous look should prove a winner for the film. With this film, Deepika should be able to silence the critics who see her only as a 'glamour doll', after her debut in Shah Rukh Khan's 'Om Shanti Om'. Her interaction with Saif Ali Khan at the marriage shows her maturity in the field of acting.
-MagnaMags

Acting-wise, the lead players-Saif and Deepika - depict their characters very faithfully. Saif renders so many shades to his character, including playing the dual role, to make it look just real. Deepika stuns the audience by her beauty and acting skill. Both have performed their best.
-Smashits

Would this film have worked without its two main players? Deepika Padukone’s Mira is a moving image of modern misapprehensions on love, a magnificent montage of seductive emotions mapped on a face that’s meant to be a classic yet a ‘Mira’-image of contemporary times.
It’s significant that Deepika plays an art restorer. In her performance she indeed restores the era of the leading lady who doesn’t need to talk constantly or take off her clothes to be supremely appealing. Deepika creates a graph for her character without growing judgemental about the character’s obvious shortcomings.
-Subhash K Jha

Deepika Padukone is a pleasure to look at as she delivers a solid performance, quite a welcome change after her disappointing turn in last year’s Bachna Ae Haseeno
-india.com

Padukone delivers the best of her four performances so far (six if you count the double roles in Om Shanti Om and Chandni Chowk To China). Though she does not have scenes that require too many emotions in the pre-interval portions, she impresses with her histrionics in the second half.
-Aniruddha Guha

Both Saif and Deepika are convincing as Jai and Meera. Saif has pulled of an astounding act as urbane, flirty, idiotic, confused Jai and is likeable as the younger Veer too. Deepika has enacted way beyond her previous roles.
-IndiaGlitz

It's Deepika's best work yet. Aside from looking stunning, she naturally transforms her character from the first scene to the very last scene.
-Desihits

But with Imtiaz Ali at the helm, her latest film Love Aaj Kal seems to have put Deepika finally in the big league. Most critics are singing praise about Deepika’s amazing performance in the film that marks Saif Ali Khan’s debut as a producer and especially her capability to emulate with her silence and her eyes. We’re sure that Deepika is a happy girl toda, y because her performance is a slap on everybody’s face who thought that Kareena would have done a much better job than her!
-Khaleej Times

Deepika Padukone is an image of grace in a role that requires her to talk more through the eyes than words. She doesn’t ham, nor is there any apparent effort on her part to underplay her character
-Apunkachoice

Deepika Padukone shows that she is not only gorgeous but also a fine actress Bollywood has ever seen.
-Radiosargam

Deepika Padukone's role requires her to say a few smart lines, and a couple of emotional scenes with reddened eyes. The rest of it she gets by by looking amused at the proceedings. Her staid look, however, can pass off as an extremely 'dignified' performance.
-Deepa Garimella / fullhyd.com

LAK is Deepika’s fourth film and she proves she can act. Not only does she look very pretty, her performance is natural to the core. She makes a good pair with Saif too. In a few scenes, she expresses herself beautifully even without dialogues.
-SBO Reviews