Lot of people assumed that Sanchita Padukone who made her debut recently in Telugu in Varun Sandesh’s film Chammak Challo is a cousin/sister of Deepika Padukone. Sanchita recently clarified that she is not related to Deepika Padukone. Padukone is the name of a village near Mangalore in Karnataka. All the people in that village have Padukone as their family name. Likewise both Deepika and Sanchita hail from the same village called Padukone.