Taapsee Pannu’s kitty is overflowing with film offers. And she wants to do them all
When I met director Anubhav Sinha early this year, he was basking in the success of his latest release, Article 15. Although he did not want to reveal much about his next film, tentatively titled Thappad, he was more than happy to talk about the film’s lead actor—Taapsee Pannu. “She brings honesty to her characters,” he said. “She works with a lot of passion.” Pannu had played the lawyer Aarti Mohammad in Sinha’s film Mulk (2018).
Sinha is not the only director to vouch for Pannu. While editing the spy thriller Baby (2015), director Neeraj Pandey found something special in the actor, who featured in a small sequence shot in Nepal. “I knew [the sequence] would lend itself beautifully to another feature starring the actor,” he told me when Naam Shabana (2017), a spin-off from Baby starring Pannu in the lead, released. Others like Shoojit Sircar, Sujoy Ghosh and Anurag Kashyap, who have worked with her, also swear by Pannu. She is happy that directors and producers want to work with her again and that she is busy with the kind of films she wants to do.
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