Taapsee Pannu is enjoying the success of her latest film Dunki, where she co-starred with Shah Rukh Khan. The Rajkumar Hirani directorial marked their first collaboration. In a recent interview, Taapsee revealed that she froze when she met SRK for the first time.
In an interview with the Times of India, Taapsee said, “In your head, obviously, all the flash cuts of all his films and the moments he’s created on screen, his songs to his dialogues and all of that keep giving a good reel. But when you come in front of him, it’s not like he has an intimidating personality. He is a very warm and welcoming person. But because you can see the same man you’ve been seeing for years on the big screen, you just freeze in that moment.”
She further added, “I had to constantly keep shaking myself after the first couple of meetings, like, ‘come back to reality.. he’s just sitting there in front of me’. It was never like anybody got to know about it or I shared it with anyone because it’ll be very odd if I do that. I don’t want to mess it up in any way. So you’re putting up this very confident and brave front, but you know, mentally, you are in a certain danger looking at him. But, it did take me a couple of days to actually snap out of it.”
Talking about why it was difficult for her to romance SRK, she said, “Same thing! Actually, when your eyes meet, when he is looking at you with those expressions, you immediately have that déjà vu of those classic romantic films that he has done and we have loved him in those films. So you slip into that memory of what you have seen of him in the movies and have loved so much. Since most of our scenes were together, during the initial days when he kept looking at me very lovingly, it was very hard to not freeze in that moment.”
Meanwhile, on the professional front, Taapsee will be seen in the comedy-drama film, Woh Ladki Hai Kahan, co-starring Prateik Babbar and Pratik Gandhi. She also has Phir Aayi Haseen Dillruba.
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