Taapsee Pannu
It needs to be remembered that the fight is not against one director or one production house. The enemy is not a single person, and this is where Ranaut fails to move ahead in the nepotism discussion that she has been fuelling since 2017.
Looking at Taapsee Pannu’s electricity bill all the whimsical baking I have been doing for the past few months, doesn’t seem like a good idea now.
These firebrand women don’t believe in getting cowered. They truly are the citizens of today who teach us how to stand up, voice our opinions and deal with modern day peeves and rock it too.
Directed by Anubhav Sinha, Thappad isn’t just a film about domestic violence. It is about everyday male entitlement, that reduces the worth of women in the eyes of their husbands, often to an extent that they end up thinking that they can get away with hitting their wife.
At the end of the film, there is not just Amrita who has re-negotiated the dynamics of her relationships and reclaimed her life but we have a bunch of other women cutting across class, age and social and financial positions who have done so in their own ways.
This year, the 32-year-old began on a high with Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, where she plays a homemaker who suddenly wakes up from a stupor as it were when her seemingly loving husband slaps her at a party.
Many people on social media have hailed Thappad’s trailer as an antidote to last year’s infamous film Kabir Singh.
“It’s truly an honour to play the role of India’s most successful captain where Women’s Cricket is concerned,” Taapsee said.
“It’s truly an honour to play the role of India’s most successful captain where Women’s Cricket is concerned,” Taapsee said.
Would Amithabh Bachchan have gotten more credit than his co-star, had there been a male actor opposite him in Badla, such as Ranbir Kapoor, Kartik Aaryan or Vicky Kaushal? Would Badla still have been a Bachchan film largely?
When we can have straight actors champion same sex romance, and male actors cross dress as women, why can’t we have two young actors, play older women?
If the movie claims to showcase this glorious chapter about rocket and space science and Mars, I am of the opinion that it should have been made with a little more gravitas.
