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Taapsee Pannu made her debut as a producer with Blurr. The film, which released on Zee5 on December 9, has received some great reviews. However, many have also said how they feel Taapsee is doing similar kinds of roles and picking only thrillers as her genre. Now, in a recent interview, the actress opened up about such criticism, and what she feels about being typecast.
Talking to Hindustan Times, Taapsee opened up about doing back-to-back thrillers and about people now saying that she might be getting comfortable with this genre. She said, “I think my personal ego is way insignificant in front of a good script. I can’t keep satisfying my personal ego of being called the ‘best’ actor in the industry, or the ‘highest paid’ actor in the industry, or the ‘most variety-offering’ actor in the industry. All this is too secondary. If I get a good script, I want to do it. It doesn’t matter what genre it is.”
She further added, “I just want to be associated with good work. It doesn’t matter to me what slotting is happening. And even if it’s happening in a way like, ‘she does this genre well’, or ‘she does this a lot in a film’, I think for any actor to have a certain image is not very obvious in the film industry, because so many people come and go. So, if you have a strong recall value of me as an actor for doing certain kinds of roles, I still look at it in the positive light.”
Taapsee was recently criticised for looking almost the same in whatever role she picked up. Critics also claimed that it was just her clothes changing, but she remained the same. Speaking about it, she said, “Initially, it did hurt me and bothered me. And that only happens when it’s coming from people who you’ve kept up there in your head at a good position. People who are insignificant, or don’t matter, or who you don’t know, or who you don’t think much of, woh agar aisa bolenge toh it doesn’t affect you.”
