Method To Her Madness Taapsee Pannu

Shoojit Sircar’s Pink Gave the Country a Glimpse of Its Fast Losing Conscience, and Changed the Dynamics of a Power-packed Subject for a Film, Forever. But Above All, It Gave Bollywood a Second Coming of the Gorgeous Storehouse of Talent, Taapsee Pannu.

- Siddharth M Joshi

"The soul of both the characters is the same”...Taapsee retaliates when I exclaim how different the role in her latest movie is, from Meenal in Pink. “I think both the characters are me in the garb of Meenal and Nimmi, with very different sides. Meenal is the more serious side of me, and this is exactly how I would react when someone rubs me up the wrong way. On the other hand Nimmi is the more fun side of me.” Pink was probably the most important movie in the entire duration of last year, as it touched upon a subject which we only talk about in the luxury of leisure. Besides being fabulously presented it also bagged a huge fan following for Taapsee Pannu, a big star in the South. But I still want to understand why she chose a very light hearted comedy, almost bordering on something frivolous. And it turns out there’s not just a logical explanation to this but also an interesting story. Even though Pink came out first it was Runningshaadi.com that was made before Pink even had a script. “I bagged the role because of the movie Runningshaadi.com which is coming out on 3rd Feb, which Shoojit sir produced before Pink. At that point he didn’t meet me much. He was a creative producer for the movie, so even though he was involved, he wouldn’t be on the set every day. He saw the footage of the film and probably decided that I should be Meenal Arora. But he didn’t have the final script in hand, so he waited till the script was finalised and then approached me.”