 The action film "" (2017), in which Padukone played the lead female role of Serena Unger, opposite Vin Diesel, marked her first project in Hollywood.Critical reception of the film was mixed.Tirdad Derakhshani of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" termed the film a "repetitious heap of remarkably tedious CGI-enhanced action scenes" and thought that Padukone's talent was wasted in it.