 Her next appearance was opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Rohit Shetty's action-comedy film "Chennai Express", as a Tamil girl on the run from her father (a local don), which required that she adopt a Tamil accent.Critical opinion on her accent was mixed, but her performance received praise; film critic Aseem Chhabra wrote, "Padukone is delightful in the filmbeautiful, smiling, and often a lot more playful and funny than Khan.