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Taapsee Pannu: Ready for the nasty adjectives that I will get
Updated On: 12 June, 2021 10:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Playing a morally grey character in `Haseen Dillruba`, Taapsee Pannu says liberating to represent different shades of a woman on screen
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For Taapsee Pannu, her restrained performance in `Thappad` (2020) was emotionally draining. Almost 15 months on, she has `Haseen Dillruba` up her sleeve, which sees her Rani as the antithesis to Thappad’s Amrita. “It was liberating to step into the character of Rani. Amrita was suffocating to play because she was controlled from all directions before she [broke] free. Here, she is not the conventionally good woman. I have played roles that aren’t white (like Badla) but Rani falls in the in-between. I love to portray grey roles; the real joy is in exploring the layers,” says Pannu.
The Vinil Mathew-directed film sees her as the small-town Rani, a newlywed who soon begins a torrid affair with Harshvardhan Rane’s Neel Tripathi. Things take a turn for worse when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her husband, played by Vikrant Massey. It is not surprising that Rani has the rebellious streak of Rumi from Manmarziyaan (2018) – after all, the Netflix film is written by Kanika Dhillon. Asked if she gravitates towards morally corrupt parts instinctively, Pannu says, “Kanika and I discuss that we have to genuinely believe that what our character is doing, is right. She is not trying to be a bad woman; she is being herself. We need to bring honesty to the performance by understanding her ideology and how she feels about her circumstances - be it in the case of Rani (Haseen Dillruba) or Rumi (in Manmarziyaan). We try to do this even when it requires departing from our realities.”
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