Dunki: Taapsee Pannu Reveals Why Romancing Shah Rukh Khan In The Film Was 'Very Hard'

Taapsee Pannu is currently basking in the success of her recently released film, Dunki. The actress shared the screen space with Shah Rukh Khan in the movie. The Rajkumar Hirani film also marked their first collaboration. Recollecting the shooting days, in a recent interview, Taapsee recalled having a ‘freezing’ moment when she met SRK for the first time.

Taapsee was speaking to the Times Of India, when she shared, “In your head, obviously, all the flash cuts of all his (Shah Rukh Khan’s) films and the moments he’s created on screen, his songs to his dialogues and all of that keep giving a good reel. But when you come in front of him, it’s not like he has an intimidating personality. He is a very warm and welcoming person. But because you can see the same man you’ve been seeing for years on the big screen, you just freeze in that moment.”

“I had to constantly keep shaking myself after the first couple of meetings, like, ‘come back to reality.. he’s just sitting there in front of me’… you’re putting up this very confident and brave front but you know, mentally, you are in a certain danger looking at him. But, it did take me a couple of days to actually snap out of it,” the actress added.

Taapsee further shared that romancing Shah Rukh Khan was quite difficult for her. She mentioned that on the initial days King Khan ‘kept looking at her very lovingly’ which made it ‘very hard’ for her ‘to not freeze in that moment’. “Actually, when your eyes meet, when he is looking at you with those expressions, you immediately have that déjà vu of those classic romantic films that he has done and we have loved him in those films. So you slip into that memory of what you have seen of him in the movies and have loved so much. Since most of our scenes were together, during the initial days when he kept looking at me very lovingly, it was very hard to not freeze in that moment,” she said.

Taapsee Pannu is renowned for her versatile performances in Bollywood. She has given hits like Pink, Badla, Thappad, and Mulk.

Next, Taapsee will be seen in the comedy-drama film, Woh Ladki Hai Kahan. The movie is written and directed by Arshad Syed and will also star Prateik Babbar and Pratik Gandhi in the lead roles. Apart from that, the much-awaited sequel to Haseen Dillruba is in the works. In Phir Aayi Haseen Dillruba, she will be sharing the screen with Vikrant Massey, Sunny Kaushal, and Jimmy Shergill.