Earlier, Taapsee Pannu had revealed that she and the ‘Manmarziyaan’ director had got into an argument while shooting for the movie. Followed by the argument the shoot came to a standstill for half of the half. The actress played ‘Rumi’ in the film alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Vicky Kaushal. The film was released in 2018.
During an interview in 2019, the actress talked about how a scene in which her character, Rumi, returned to Vicky after she got angry with Robbie (Abhishek Bachchan). She had revealed how she and director, Anurag Kashyap had argued over different approaches towards the scene.
Taapsee in an interview with Film Companion said, “Oh yeah, the shooting was stopped for half a day. We were arguing over how we were going to go about that scene. I had read the script, I knew this was going to happen, that’s okay. But Anurag Kashyap has a bad habit of writing things on the spot, which is again okay if you’re not changing the scene 180 degrees. If you’re gonna change dialogues and little movement, okay. But he wrote something totally different suddenly for that scene, which for me, as a woman, didn’t go down well.”
Explaining her stance she said as a woman who is watching the movie, she needs to be connected to Rumi as she is the protagonist. She felt that the audience should root for Rumi even if makes a mistake. She believed that if she would speak the dialogue he had written the audience wouldn’t have rooted for Rumi.
Taapsee continued, “I remember everyone standing there, including Vicky (Kaushal), and calming me down and someone’s calming Anurag down,” saying the argument lasted for half a day.
She added, “(She said), ‘Anurag, listen I am a female. I know how it is when a woman behaves like this, so give me that liberty of being the gender I am performing and understand that if I do it like this, it will be better. This way, it will be not so pleasant to look at.’ He understood, we found a midpoint and that’s how the scene is.”
