Taapsee Pannu is now one of the formidable actresses in Bollywood. Before she made her way into Bollywood, she had dabbled in South industry first. Without any Godfather, Taapsee has successfully carved a niche for herself and is known for picking up off-beaten roles apart from commercials. The Mission Mangal actress has now revealed shocking details about the struggles she had faced in the South industry.
Taapsee opens up about how she was dubbed as ‘Iron Leg’ as she had few back-to-back flops. She says, “In South, the only bitter experience that happened to me was tagging me with the name of being an Iron leg, which was very unfortunate and sad because I had nothing to do in the scripting or filming of the film…I was there only for three songs and a few scenes and I did the film only because the producer was big, the film was big and the director was big and that was my fault that I chose to do a film for these reasons and the repercussions were brutal on me because I was tagged with the bad luck charm which I had to battle for years because I had two-three flop films back to back and I was in the film, so ‘yeh panauti’ hai'”
Taapsee’s harrowing experience with a director
While the actress hasn’t named the director but it might refer to noted filmmaker Raghavendra Rao. Speaking about the awkward experience she had, she says, Taapsee said, “For me, it was a shock because I had not seen that happening so when I said that it was a shocker for me…It was very unusual for me to understand the director…it was his way of giving tribute to the beauty of the women because he compares it with flowers or fruits”, adding, “I made fun of myself saying I got a coconut and everyone else got a flower or a softer fruit.”
