New Delhi: Actor Taapsee Pannu is making her long-awaited return to action genre with the film 'Gandhari’.
She hopes to finally satisfy her fans who have been eager to see her take on more action-oriented roles following the success of ‘Baby’ and ‘Naam Shabana’.
Pannu, who will be playing the lead character ‘Bani’ in the latest film, said audiences had been urging her for years to return to the action genre.
However, the actor deliberately stayed away from the genre, citing the physical demands involved in performing action sequences.
"Since 'Baby' and 'Naam Shabana', people have been after me to do action but I've been avoiding it because it takes a lot of physical effort for me to do action.
"First of all, I don't enjoy hitting people physically. Even though my image says otherwise. I generally don't like hitting people. I'm a non-violent person that way," Pannu told PTI on the sidelines of the ongoing 'Jagran Film Festival'.
The 39-year-old actor also noted that the films she typically works in do not always have the budgets for techniques such as face replacement or extensive green-screen sequences, meaning she often has to perform the action herself.
Besides the physical demands, Pannu said she wanted her return to action to offer audiences something beyond what they had seen from her before.
"I wanted to do an action that takes it a level above what I've done before. Only then is it worth attempting action again. So I've tried doing that. I hope the audience is satisfied and likes this as much or more than what they've seen me doing before,” she explained.
Gandhari, directed by Devashish Makhija and written and produced by Kanika Dhillon, follows a mother driven by a fierce determination to protect her child. The film is set to premiere on Netflix on September 3.
On the occasion, Pannu also spoke about her distinctive creative equation with Dhillon, with whom she has collaborated on films including ‘Manmarziyaan’, ‘Haseen Dillruba’, ‘Rashmi Rocket’ and ‘Dobaaraa’.