Taapsee Pannu believes she isn't on a career high

'I am very scared when I read reviews and people say ‘she’s at the best of her game',' she said

Bollywood starlet Taapsee Pannu has been trying to break the stereotypical onscreen portrayal of a damsel in distress with the roles she has been taking up. While 2020 might have had its challenges, but for the actor, it started and is ending on a professional high. Her social drama Thappad released in February and garnered rave reviews and box office collections before the Covid-19 pandemic soon took over.

And seems like Pannu is in no hurry to slow down either. The 33-year-old has a lot on her plate, she told Hindustan Times and doesn’t believe this is her ‘purple patch’ just yet though. 

“Because patches last for a limited time. I am very scared when I read reviews and people say ‘she’s at the best of her game’ or at her career-best. It’s scary because then you feel there is going to be a decline. If you reach the peak, the only way ahead is to come down, and that’s a crazy thought,” she told the publication.

But taking up projects has always been a task for the Pink star. Filtering content, she thinks, is particularly hard for her, given that she is offered quite a bit of work yearly. “People see me in three-four films a year, sometimes (I almost think) people might get too bored of me, or too much of me. If you are coming so many times, you have to make sure that your content is different from the others, and people don’t really get bored. Whatever you do should be different from what you have done before, otherwise, you might just get too monotonous for people. But the fact is none of them are worth dropping!” she continued.

While Covid-19 certainly shut down theatres until they reopened on October 15 in India, her February release was screened at the cinemas once again. 

Pannu says it felt ‘nice’ that it was considered ‘worthy’ of re-releasing. But there was another thought in her head. Talking about it, the Manmarziyaan star shared, “I was not thinking just about myself and my film, I wanted to think more from my audience’ situation. I was like why don’t we release those films which people don’t watch anymore, like old classics? Thappad had recently released, and people who didn’t watch it in theatres watched it on OTT or television, it was too fresh in the minds of people to see.”

In fact, she is not sure if it was a great idea. “It wasn’t really needed at that time when the need of the hour was to get people into theatres. I don’t know if it was that great a decision… we can feel happy for being selected, but that would be a very selfish thing to do,” says the actor.

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