Recently, Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu revealed that she wasn’t paid a hefty sum of money to star in big-hero movies. Pannu was speaking to the SCREEN magazine when she said she wasn’t paid a lot for starring in movies like Dunki and Judwaa 2. While Dunki starred Shah Rukh Khan, Judwaa 2 starred Varun Dhawan.
Speaking about the same, Pannu said, “Funnily, people think I do films like Judwaa or Dunki for money, that I get paid a lot. But no, it is the opposite – I get paid to do more for films that are headlined by me, like a Haseen Dillruba, and other films don’t really pay me much because they feel they are doing me a favor by taking me up in that kind of a film. They feel, ‘There is already a big hero, why do we need anybody else for that?’ I fight these notions on a daily basis.”
Pannu, who has become a producer to promote films with strong messages, said she always finds it difficult to get cast in big films. She said, “Now even the audience knows that heroes decide who the heroine is going to be in most of their films, until you have a very big, super successful director, who has his or her own audience. Then the director will take a call no matter what.”
She further added, “But 75 percent of the time, it is the hero who has a big say on who the heroine is going to be. Now, obviously the hero would want someone who is more in trend, someone who is getting more audience attention right now. Some are secure, others think, ‘Let me cast someone who will not overshadow me.’” Her big movies include Rajkummar Hirani’s Dunki, Mission Mangal, and Judwaa 2.
The star of the Haseen Dillruba series, Pannu, and its writer Kanika Dhillon, are teaming up for a new project. Like Haseen Dillruba installments, Gandhari will also be released on Netflix. Recently, Netflix shared a motion poster of the movie on Instagram. The background audio features Pannu saying, “Kehte hain maa ki dua hamesha saath chalti hai. Lekin jab uski bachi par aati hai, to kaali bhi vo hi banti hai.” Dhillon will also be producing this action thriller.
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