Actor Taapsee Pannu says she went for the script narration of Looop Lapeta, the Hindi remake of the 1998 German movie Run Lola Run, with an intention to show it down however was drawn to the central character.
The upcoming Hindi thriller, helmed by Aakash Bhatia, follows an adventurous experience by a sticky state of affairs the place a girlfriend (Pannu) is on a mission to rescue her boyfriend (Tahir Raj Bhasin). In the movie, Pannu’s character is caught in a time loop and will get a number of probabilities to save lots of Bhasin’s life.
“I said yes to it (Looop Lapeta) instantly because it was so funny. Today, it makes you feel that this concept was made for India more than the German classic that it was. Hence, I ended up saying yes. The film is a clutter-breaking take on new age romance, a genre I am exploring for the first time,” the actor informed PTI in a Zoom interview.
Taapsee stated her preliminary hesitation with the movie needed to do with the truth that her 2019 movie Game Over had already employed the time loop idea.
“I had done a film called ‘Game Over’, which had something similar in it. I didn’t want to repeat a concept in another film so I went with the intention to say no. I told the producer Atul (Kasbekar) that I haven’t seen the original film but I know the basic storyline and concept. But he told me to just hear out (the script). And if it still seems similar and if I don’t want to do it, then it is okay.” The movie, nonetheless, supplied her the prospect to expertise and discover the identical world with assorted nuances, which the actor discovered thrilling.
“It was exciting to explore how in the same situation and the same problem, I can handle and react in different ways three different times. Like, a stretch of the run can be different in three different loops. As an actor, I enjoyed it and was exhausted also but I kept myself on my toes. I had to go through the same set of hurdles but in a different mood. It was an interesting exercise to perform.” The actor stated she was amazed by the large success of Run Lola Run, directed by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, in 1998 and hopes Looop Lapeta can also be capable of recreate that.
“How ahead of its time it must have been to release this film in 1998 and what kind of conviction it would have required for makers to attempt this in 1998,”she questioned.
Taapsee Pannu, who has emerged from back-to-back success of Rashmi Rocket and Haseen Dilruba on OTT platforms, stated she is in a greater place right this moment to decide on movies.
“Things have changed for good in terms of the options and choices that I have now to choose from. This happens because my films get acceptance. Like, if my one film that is out-of-the-box gets accepted, then I get ten options and that is what happened with Haseen Dilruba and Rashmi Rocket,” Pannu added.
The acceptance in direction of her movies from the viewers, the actor stated, solely validates and pushes her to additional imagine in her decisions.
“When my films get accepted, it validates my choices. And I have made a career out of choices. People know me for my choices. Besides, I get more courage to choose such not conventional subjects and films in the future as well,” she added.
In one among her current posts on Instagram, Pannu had stated she runs behind some movies and a few have fortunately fallen in her lap, her upcoming launch Looop Lapeta being the latter.
“I don’t run after movies anymore. Maybe I run behind filmmakers now if not movies. I still do that because there is no one else who is going to do that job for me. I am here on my own so I have to do it myself,” the actor stated.
Taapsee Pannu, who launched her manufacturing home Outsider Films final yr, can also be in talks for a mission with actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu.
“There is something that I have offered Samantha where I am a producer and she is the actor. But nothing more substantial has happened,” she knowledgeable.
Looop Lapeta, additionally starring Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Shreya Dhanwanthary amongst others, will launch on Netflix on February 4. It is produced by Sony Pictures Films India, Ellipsis Entertainment together with Aayush Maheshwari.
