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Playing a morally grey character in 'Haseen Dillruba', Taapsee Pannu says liberating to represent different shades of a woman on screen
Taapsee Pannu
Taapsee and Vikrant Massey in a still from 'Haseen Dillruba'
The actor pre-empts that some of her dialogues in the trailer, where she refers to her sexual liaison, may be hard to digest for the sexist society we live in. “I know the nasty adjectives I will get, and I am ready for them. People will forget that it’s not me on screen, but a character I am playing. I take it as a compliment that I am that convincing and thus they address me with nasty adjectives that are actually directed at the character. If some of these lines were said by a man, people would’ve clapped and whistled. It would have been borderline heroic, even. But a woman could be termed a b*tch. I am ready for it. If you have to clean the mess, you have to get into it and I can’t be on the outside anymore. If we demand to be perceived equally, we need to try these characters. Rani, too, is a side of a woman that hasn’t been shown on screen ever. We aren’t used to it and thus prefix it with odd adjectives. There needs to be a (holistic) change somewhere. [On a lighter note], I am looking forward to the response to my lines and the memes that will be made of my dialogues. I don’t get to mouth dramatic dialogues because most of my lines are real and conversational, in keeping with the vein of my films.”
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