Taapsee Pannu is one of the biggest female superstars in Bollywood in the current generation. She has done a wide range of work in the past few years which gave him recognition including Badla, Pink, Naam Shabana and Thappad to name a few.
She also appeared in the hit 2023 movie Dunki opposite Shah Rukh Khan. In a recent interview, the actress made shocking revelations about her remuneration in Dunki. Taapsee said that she did not get much money for doing films like Juudwaa or Dunki because there is already a big hero in the movies.
In an interview with SCREEN, Taapsee said, “Funnily, people think I do films like Judwaa or Dunki for money, that I get paid a lot. But no, it is the opposite- I get paid to do more for films that are headlined by me, like a Haseen Dilruba, and other films don’t really pay me much because they feel they are doing a favour by taking me up in that kind of a film. They feel, ‘There is already a big hero, why do we need anybody else for that?’ I fight these notions on a daily basis.”
“Now even the audience knows that heroes decide who the heroine is going to be in most of their films, until you have a very big, super successful director, who has his or her own audience. Then the director will take a call no matter what,” she added.
Dunki revolves around a group of friends who embark on a journey to move abroad in an unconventional route known as the Donkey Flight. The story focuses on their struggle they face in their journey. The movie features Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Anil Grover, Vicky Kaushal, Vikram Kochhar, Boman Irani, Rohitashv Gour and Satish Shah in key roles.
