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MANMARZIYAAN ACTOR

TAAPSEE PANNU: RUMI

WILL HELP WOMEN SEE

LIFE BEYOND

‘LOG KYA KAHENGE’

When I heard the script for the first time, I was judging Rumi. I
was saying that my audience won’t like it. That was probably the
“biggest challenge for me,” Taapsee Pannu said while recalling the
first narration she received for Manmarziyaan.
The actor got candid about playing the carefree character of Rumi in
the Anurag Kashyap directorial in an exclusive chatS. “Rumi from the
outside might look like me, but on the inside, she is totally different.
I’m not a confused person in real life, I’m very clear. She is totally
confused and with full conviction she is confused!” she said.
Manmarziyaan is a love triangle, also starring Abhishek Bachchan and
Vicky Kaushal. Taapsee, who is getting to work with Anurag Kashyap
for the first time, said it will be the first time a love story will roll out from
a female perspective. “It’s an intense love story. And I think it is the
first time, from a female point of view even for Anurag. It’s so beautiful
to see two men who are not going to judge her (Rumi), who love her
equally. And she loves both of them the same way. She doesn’t believe
in the regular norms of society and wants to live life on her terms. So,
the women are going to be like, finally, nobody is judging us. I think
Rumi will help them see life beyond ‘log kya kahenge’ (what’ll people
think?) and that in a way will become aspirational for a lot of girls,” she
shared. screen space he had in Sanju or Raazi, people take his name as
Commenting on how Kashyap has been stating that Taapsee is much as they probably take for the protagonists. How frequently
indeed Rumi, the actor laughed and said, “Anurag didn’t even give do we see that? There are so many people who play supporting
me a script, until a day before the shoot. He was like, ‘just come on characters but how many of them get registered as much as he
the set the way you are.’ He said ‘I won’t even let your hairstylist did this year? I think he has proven that what matters is how
come on the set. I want your hair also to be the way it originally is. good you are as an actor, not how many scenes you have in
I don’t want anything to be diluted.’ He still believes I’m 100 percent the film,” she opined.
Rumi. Whereas, I believe I use my brain a little more than Rumi does,”
Taapsee said with a smile. Manmarziyaan is Taapsee’s fourth release this year. Her
“I was not a huge Anurag Kashyap, the director fan, but post the film previous ones were Dil Juunglee, Soorma and Mulk. She called
I’ve become a bigger fan of him as the human being. I love him to Manmarziyaan the perfect closure to 2018. “I’m trying to break
pieces now,” she added. a lot of prejudices with my every film. And it is the perfect finale
Taapsee did the award-winning film Pink with Amitabh Bachchan. of sorts for this year, which has already been so good for me so
Now, she is set to share screen space with his son Abhishek in far. So, I’m happy and satisfied with the film,’ she said.
Manmarziyaan. She revealed how the two actors were similar, yet
different. “Because he is the son, you end up seeing glimpses (of his Taapsee’s next project is Badla. After trying out almost every
father). And because I’ve worked with both of them, the energy and possible genre, what’s left for her to try now? “X-Men or
high of an actor were exactly the same between both of them. Other Avengers! I want to be a mutant or an Avenger. That’s what
than that nothing is common. They both are very different actors. I is left. I want to play whoever is opposite Iron Man. I want to
would love to learn Abhishek’s impeccable sense of humour,” she romance Robert Downey Jr,” she signed off.
shared.
And what about working with Vicky? “How magical it is that in whatever

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