Deepika Padukone [Images], who makes her Hindi film debut in Farah Khan’s [Images] Om Shanti Om, has something in common with the legendary Guru Dutt.

And it’s more than just a career in show business.

The famed filmmaker and the debutant actress hail from Karnataka’s Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community and share a surname.

Guru Dutt was born Vasanth Kumar Shivsankar Padukone. His family later changed his first name to Guru Dutt after a childhood accident, as it was perceived to be auspicious. The surname went out, perhaps when he became a dancer in Kolkata.

Deepika is, of course, the elder daughter of badminton legend Prakash Padukone, the first Indian to win the All England [Images] title, the biggest prize in the sport, and his Mumbai-raised wife Ujjala, who the model-actress resembles.