 In Homi Adajania's praised satire "Finding Fanny", Padukone played a young widow who takes a road trip with her dysfunctional friends (played by Arjun Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Pankaj Kapur) in search of a woman named Fanny.The film was screened at the 19th Busan International Film Festival; critic Anuj Kumar of "The Hindu" wrote that Padukone successfully "takes off the fineries of Bollywood and you can sense the freedom from baggage in her performance".Later that year, she starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan for the third time in Farah Khan's renewal of "Happy New Year".