‘I was on a big guilt trip when five of my films had to be rescheduled after the lockdown’
With six films in hand, actor Taapsee Pannu couldn’t have asked for a better 2021. She has wrapped up the shoot of her Telugu film and Rashmi Rocket and is currently filming for Loop Lapeta, while Shabaash Mithu, a biopic on cricketer Mithali Raj, has also been announced.
2020 was therefore, a big mess for the actor when it came to juggling these projects she had in hand. She admits that she got worried when the lockdown came into effect in March 2020.
“I had committed to some five films and I really wanted to make sure I’m able to give all of them dates,” she says.
The 33-year-old adds that she ensured things restarted in the same way as they were planned. “When the whole situation happened, I was disappointed because I had to again push those many films. I was on a big guilt trip when my films were rescheduled. However, when I resumed, I did so on the basis of what I had committed before, in the same chronological order.”
Pannu may be raring to work, but when it was time to resume work, things did get a bit difficult. She says the many months of staying at home had its effect. “It really made the pace slow. I remember when the lockdown was being lifted, I’d do one work meeting, narration a day. I used to feel so great yet weird, and wonder whether my body has got used to so much relaxation,” she says but a few days is all it took for her to get back into the groove.
“A few days into the shoot and I was instantly out of that laziness. I started shooting my south film in September and then I moved on to Haseen Dilruba and Loop Lapeta. It’s been good, no one working on these films has got Covid-19 so far, so it’s been very safe,” she ends.
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