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Taapsee Pannu: Don’t want to hear 'ladki ne dhang se nahin khela’
Updated On: 30 June, 2022 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Aware that her technique will be scrutinised in our cricket-obsessed country, Taapsee discusses giving her all to Mithali’s biopic, Shabaash Mithu
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Mithali Raj and Taapsee Pannu
It’s a make-or-break film,” says Taapsee Pannu, at the beginning of our chat. It’s surprising to hear it from an actor who is in the golden phase of her career. But to Pannu, Shabaash Mithu is that defining film, one that she refuses to go wrong with. She felt so attached to Mithali Raj’s life that she gave her nod to the biopic even before a script was developed. The actor begins, “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime film on one of our best cricketers. You can’t make a Mithali Raj biopic again. It’s the first film on women’s cricket [in Hindi cinema], and we won’t get another chance to correct it. I was overjoyed to come on board, but there wasn’t a single day when I didn’t wonder, why did I do this to myself?”
Before Srijit Mukherji’s directorial venture went on floors in April 2021, Pannu trained with cricketer Nooshin Al Khadeer. Her training was as much to learn the sport, as to become Raj on the pitch. “Even when Mithali pads up, she puts on the left one first, as a pre-match ritual. She walks lazy, I am a brisk walker. You won’t see her fist-thumping or jumping in the air. At the most, she will flash a wide smile. So, I had to mould myself [accordingly].”
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