Fierce & Fabulous

TAAPSEE PANNU & BHUMI PEDNEKAR

There seems to be no resting or stopping for you. Where do you get this energy from?

Well, I am getting so many great scripts, and I am very greedy for good scripts so I grab one at the slightest opportunity and then I won’t let it go. It doesn’t matter if I have to make six films in a year! I guess it is my greed for a good script that keeps me working.

Have you ever snatched up a script?

Not snatched but there was a script that I had said I wanted to do and I was told it would be narrated to me. But it was narrated to someone else and they said no. They took it to yet another person and it was turned down. It was narrated to two to three people but not to me. When I found out and asked them, I was told we are doing it with someone else and I thought ‘yeh kya baat hui?!’. But something didn’t work out and they came back to me. That was one film I really wanted and I wasn’t being given but it was destiny that it came back to me.

Earlier you had said that you would ask for scripts but now scripts come to you...

No, no. It is nothing like that. I often go to scripts (laughs).

But you have a trove of films that have come to you…

Yes, well, I have gone and grabbed all of them. You are saying it like I have committed a crime (laughs). I mean yes, some directors do come to me, but I still go to some and ask for scripts.

Your plate is full this year.

My plate is overflowing right now. But none of the films are similar to each other and none of them are films that I would have been okay with someone else doing!

How difficult is it to switch from one film to another?