Happy Birthday, Taapsee Pannu. Painting Bollywood Pink@31
Updated: August 01, 2018 11:47 IST
As Taapsee celebrates her 31st birthday today, let's take a look at her journey in the film industry.
Taapsee Pannu, born in New Delhi, gained immense popularity after starring in south cinema. She rocked Bollywood with her powerful performances in films like Pink, Baby and its spin-off Naam Shabana. As Taapsee celebrates her 31st birthday today, let's take a look at her journey in the film industry.
Taapsee was born in Delhi in a Sikh family. Taapsee, who is a Computer Science graduate, completed her schooling and college from Delhi. Taapsee entered the film industry after she featured on the reality show Get Gorgeous.
Taapsee's big break came in 2010 when K Raghavendra Rao offered her lead role opposite Manoj Manchu in Jhummandi Naadam. (Image courtesy YouTube)
Taapsee, who was offered three films even before her debut hit the screens, appeared in seven films in 2011 in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. She made Aadukalam with Dhanush (her Tamil film debut), Vastadu Naa Raju with Vishnu Manchu, Mr Perfect with Prabhas, Veera with Ravi Teja, Vandhaan Vendraan with Jiiva, Mogudu with Gopichand and Doubles with Mammootty. (Image courtesy YouTube)
In 2012, she took a break from the signing spree and only appeared in Daruvu with Ravi Teja. The film failed to fetch positive reviews. (Image courtesy YouTube)
In 2013, Taapsee made her Bollywood debut in David Dhawan-directed Chashme Baddoor. She also featured in three Telugu films Gundello Godari, Shadow and Sahasam and one Tamil film Arrambam that year.
2015 was a big year for Taapsee, courtesy the Neeraj Pandey-directed Baby and the Aishwaryaa R Dhanush-directed Vai Raja Vai. She also starred in Raghava Lawrence's Kanchana 2. (Image courtesy YouTube)
In 2016, she won over the film industry with her powerful performance in the Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury-directed Pink. The film also featured Amitabh Bachchan, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang. Pink won the National Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.
In 2017, Taapsee was cast in the lead role in Baby spin-off Naam Shabana, which won great critical acclaim for her. The same year, she also featured in films like Varun Dhawan's Judwaa 2 and war-drama The Ghazi Attack.
Taapsee Pannu began this year with a small-budget film like Dil Juunglee and starred opposite Diljit Dosanjh in the recently released Soorma, a sports biopic.
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Taapsee Pannu will soon be seen in another courtroom drama titled Mulk, which releases on August 3. Taapsee co-stars with Rishi Kapoor in the movie and portrays the role of an advocate.
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Next up, Taapsee Pannu also has films like Manmarziyaan, Tadka and Badla in the line-up. She co-stars with Abhishek Bachchan in Manmarziyaan.
