Tapsee Pannu YT

I have come a long way into a profession
and never thought of coming to

so it's a long way to come through
and not giving up in between

where there so many reasons and times where I

felt exasperated, exhausted, frustrated

I have a lot more tolerance for bullshit now

to begin with, I have kind of calmed down a lot

from what I was before

I was way too over-impulsive at that time

When she became a part of the team and when she

observed a lot of things around
then only thing she wanted was

just equality so,

that became my core calling or core sentiment or idea

or something that I should, I kept in mind when I performed

each and every scene that I did

Yeah starting from the scratch being an outsider yes

that ways, yes but I mean it's not like

I tell him that you know we have
this similar kind of a thing

you just have to, I've told him that he is the benchmark or

the person that every outsider especially
coming from Delhi looks up to

Yeah please ask Marvel I'm telling you

this is the only wishlist I have

People keep asking me what is your dream role?

who do you want to work with?

I have only one dream role, and one dream right now

where my work is concerned
I want to be a part of Avengers

I want to play a superhero of Indian origin.

Hi, everyone this Avinash Lohana
and you're watching Pinkvilla

It's always nice to talk to someone whose journey

you've seen up close and personal

Please welcome the very
very talented Tapsee Pannu

Thank you so much

Hi
hi

finally, I'm happy to do this with you

Yeah because I now have a face to the name

I remember the first time I met you
was during the promotions of Baby

I remember you were wearing a green dress and the

one thing that has remained consistent ever since then

is your confidence and your aura

If you go back to that time today Tapsee

or maybe even further, let's go to 2010 your first film

when you look back at this girl,
you've really come a long way

I have come a long way in a profession I never

thought of coming to,

so it's a long way to come through
and not giving up in between

where there were so many reasons and times where I

felt exasperated exhausted frustrated

yeah but I still kept going
so when I look back at it

I'm like I've come this far

I can push a little more.

What helped you during these
times when you're frustrated?

See in the beginning it was just
the excitement of discovering

a new profession something that you know

every day there was a new world for me to discover

and that's how the film industry is

everyday you meet a bunch of new people

every day there are new issues new workplace

so everything is new every day

that's the beauty of this and
and that kind of kept me glued

for the beginning few years but
then after a couple of years when

I probably were getting exhausted
a lot of times I looked back and I saw that

for someone who never planned
to be here has come this way

and made some kind of presence so

I think I can push a little more

So I think looking back at my own journey and feeling like

When I've hung on for so long I can do it farther more

that became

you know inspiration apart from

you know you keep seeing other women but nobody has

the exact same journey as someone else right?

Everyone has carved their own path so
I can't just look at one person and feel

if she did it then i also follow the same rule.

Nobody has the same rule

So I didn't have any specific journey to follow I could only

look back at my own journey and feel that

I've come this far, I think I can push a little more

You have. I don't know if you've noticed but
July 1, 2010, was your first film release

Yes

you complete 12 years now

Actually yeah I'm gonna complete 12 years

How does this feel yeah I know a lot has changed

professionally over the last 12 years

Has this journey changed you personally in any way?

Oh yeah yeah

I have become a very very different person
from what I was in the beginning

A lot of things might not have changed also but

I have noticed some big changes in me I have...

... a lot more tolerance for bull shit now

to begin with.

I have calmed down a lot from what I was before

I was way too over-impulsive at that time

very

sensitive also to

nonsense you know where people just

without thinking, if you say something
even if it's not a part of my agenda in life

I'll try to correct you

you know that kind of over
impulsive and over-sensitivity I had

now I have calmed down a little bit

not my monkey
not my business

I have learned that attitude a little

So I think it's just age right!
Which makes people a little more

matured and mellowed down

It also comes with success, isn't it

Yeah a lot of other things come with
success like especially in this industry

it teaches you not to take your success or failures

either of them too seriously

Correct. [Avinash]
That I learned I've not been a

good loser, I still my family members still call me

she's a very sore loser when I play board games

I'm a very sore loser and probably
even worse winner actually

But, at work life, I've kind of become better like I don't

take either success or failure too strongly now

It's not like it doesn't affect me, it still
affects me and it disturbs me a little bit

But I've gotten better at coping up with it

Yeah I have noticed that too and
more power to you for that

Oh yeah thank you

there have been many milestones in your career

Pink, Mulk, Thappar but I think

Shabash Mithu takes 10 notches up higher

and of course, there's always
a pressure to play a real-life person

somebody who's been celebrated so much but

I want to know when you first got the script or

when you first met Mithali,
what was her brief to you?

See the kind of woman of few words she is

she didn't say anything for me to keep in mind

The only thing I kept observing and noticing and

feeling was that-

How will I portray this person who is
diametrically opposite to me as a person?

First the cricket

then this personality which is nothing
there's nothing in common

For me to latch on to, so that is what I was
thinking when I met her for the first time

and for what I had to keep in mind is like at no point like

our core of the story was
at no point I should

leave that ideology that she

followed her entire career or professional life

that's just basic respect

and the acknowledgement

that women cricket deserves
that is the only thing she kept

fighting for from the time
she realised what her calling is

from the time she realised that okay you know I

when she became part of the team and when
she observed a lot of things around then

the only thing she wanted was

just equality, so

that became my core calling
or core sentiment or idea

or something that I should, I kept in mind

when I performed each & every scene that I did

Sure there's a line in the trailer which says

we'll play in such a way that nobody dares to forget us

When you started out this must-have played
on your mind also at some point

very similar journey in that sense

Yeah yeah ideologically yes, that's my
thread that I connected with Mithali

you have to leave a certain

impact in the sense you

you have to bring about a certain change so that things

that you felt were wrong when you were there

or you felt there's a need to change, what
changed a little bit by the time you left

otherwise, you came and you left
nothing changed or nothing mattered

would have been a little sad

So, I'm not saying I'll be the biggest change possible

I'll be a small part of the big change that's going to happen

or that is happening I would want to be
that and that particular dialogue honestly,

it was not on paper

Okay

It's a part of my dialogue

and when I was saying it something impromptu

because I had done that other scene where the

'Ho Gayi Pehchan' scene had
happened already so somehow

I felt like bringing that word in that
dialogue and I very spontaneously

ended up saying that and when the take got done

Priya and Srijit were like you know that works so keep that

so it was a very unexpected and spontaneous

a word that I ended up using in that
dialogue which was not written on paper

You turned producer recently, with
a film which is led by 4 very strong women

Was it Important for you to start your producer's
journey with a film which is led by women?

Actually, coincidentally, I ended up

I co-produced Blur as well, which I'm
I feature in

but that was not the plan,

The plan was to start with Dhak Dhak only

It so happened that while we were prepping up for Blur

you know I decided to become a co-producer

because of certain changes in things

But the initial plan was to start with Dhak Dhak

Okay. The way things were progressing
we were working on packaging

and presenting Dhak Dhak only
when Blur happened and then

that journey took off earlier,
it was not that I planned that I'll

produce a four women film

But it's very you

But it just I it just attracts

I think after a point a certain kind of script
attract you and certain kind of

you get attracted to certain kind of stuff so it becomes

it becomes an organic match after a point

so hence it happened even the coming ones
that you'll hear the announcements of

which I'm producing and I'm not acting in them

you'll be like yeah I mean
you're expected to produce this

but I'm glad that people would feel that you know

you wanted to produce it and it looks like it's your film

because I want to keep it in sync

The films that I produce and the films that I act in

All films might not be female-driven but the sensibility

will be in the same space like how it is when I act in a film

At least the women power will be given equal respect

yeah yeah full relevance

there'll be a female gaze as much as a male gaze in the film

Sure. You're doing a film with Samantha also,
you're producing a film for her

There is something that we are working together on

we'll announce what it is very soon but yeah,

we are working on something

Such a great combination!

Yeah, I'll be producing.
I'm really excited for- [Avinash]

So you're producing it?
I'm producing it [Tapsee]

Act also!

If there is a part in it that

that I can do then I'll

But she's going to be leading it

Wow! Excited for that one?

Of course I am
Of course, I am

there's a different kind of excitement
when I see Dhak Dhak's everyday

call sheet, every day pictures and videos from the location

there is a different child-like excitement in
me to see that happening which is like

how you feel is your baby kind of a feeling

it feels like that only, so it's a different kind of excitement

when I...

... assess dhak dhak

Yeah you've spoken about how

you spoke to Shah Rukh sir about you know
how both of you come from Delhi

I didn't speak to him about it I mean he knows that and I

have a special admiration which
I don't know how it gets even

bigger than what I have for him
but also because we both hail from

the same city, there is a certain
affinity that I have towards him

also because of that

But also similar journey right?

Yeah starting from scratch

being an outsider yes that ways yes but

But I mean it's not like I tell him that you know
we have the similar kind of a thing

you just have to-
I've told him that

He is the benchmark or the person that every outsider

especially coming from Delhi looks up to

Yeah but you're a superstar yourself
but when meet the Shah Rukh Khan

I'm not a superstar but he is the superstar
I don't really feel like-

when you work with people like him or superstars like him

you really realise that what the stakes of the word

Stardom, or star

That is when he didn't have a release in the last 5 years but

one move of his

just creates a storm everywhere
his victories are personal

his loss is personal that's stardom for me

that is stardom not what
we feel star is

But when I see this filmography of yours now which is coming

I feel really happy

These are really milestones which needs to be celebrated-

Sometimes when I feel a little down and out
I also go and open my filmography and see

you should

No I did that a couple of days back I'm not even kidding

it might just sound very embarrassing
but sometimes you know

because I don't have people around
me who deludes me constantly

and I kind of have a very limited

people around me and the people
around me who I get affected by

are not the ones who deludes me a lot they
give me a reality check every now & then

and sometimes a reality check makes me go in my shell

forget about flying high they'll put me even like

you are a nobody so sometimes you need all those

on low days you need a kind of a motivation and a push

which I was telling you, you need to look back at your journey

and feel like that you've done it

so actually a few days back I remember when I was

on not so good days I ended
up going back and checking

okay let me just see what I've achieved till date

what did I do?what all have I done

what all have I gone wrong or
right in whatever let me just see and

I was like yeah I've really worked hard so that is

that is how I get myself up from those low days

Of course but what's your opinion on
this recent south versus Bollywood debate?

Nothing. I actually have worked there

so I've worked there
I still work there

It's been 12 years I've been working there

I know that they've been making
these kind of films and good films

since ever, so it's only now the Hindi
speaking audience is waking up to them

it's nothing new for them like for them
maybe the market has increased now

but it's not like a suddenly they're
making something out of the ordinary

it's not like that

They've been doing the same kind of stuff good or bad

They too have hits and flops
they're still doing a good job like ever

It's just that the audience-

The Hindi-speaking audience is
waking up to them because of ott and

because of satellite channels suddenly

people started watching them now that they're in theatres

their stardom is reflecting

but it's not like they are making
any different kind of stuff from what

they were making a couple of years back

Point. I have to ask you this

in one of the past interviews you've said
I want to be an Indian superhero

When is that happening?

Yeah please ask Marvel, I am telling
you this is the only wish list I have

people keep asking me what is your
dream role who do you want to work with?

I have only one dream role and one dream
right now where my work is concerned

I want to be a part of the Avengers

I want to play a superhero of Indian origin, that's

all I am trying to manifest

so if anyone tells me a way to go about it

I'll follow it.

But in the meanwhile, you're a superhero in your life and

we are celebrating it

Please just keep watching my films I think I'll

I'll keep doing it then

I'm sure everyone is
thank you so much Tapsee

This is a lovely conversation
Thank you

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