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Ahead of Thappad rolling, Taapsee Pannu makes a case for the importance of fronting stories told from the female gaze
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The actor is aware that the audience response is heavily skewed towards films with a male gaze — a prime example being the recent release, Kabir Singh. "Manmarziyaan (2018) was also a love story of a flawed lover but told from a woman's perspective. In this society, we are conditioned to buy into a man's woes more easily. Kabir Singh has pushed back whatever good work we had done since Pink (2016) till now. But the success doesn't surprise me. Manmarziyaan wasn't accepted because it was a woman's story. Does that deter me? Not at all."
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