Dunki star Taapsee Pannu talks about success and says, ‘A lot of other things come with it, especially in this country’

Taapsee Pannu’s latest film Shabaash Mithu directed by Srijit Mukherji has already hit the theatres on Friday. The film is based on the life of the former captain of the Indian cricket team Mithali Raj. In a recent interview, the actress who has done remarkable films over the years in the industry spoke about accepting failures and celebrating success.

She said, "A lot of other things come with success, especially in this country. It teaches you not to take your success or failures either of them too seriously. That I've learned. I've not been a good loser. I still.... my family members still call me 'she's a very sore loser when I play board games. I am a very sore loser and probably an even worse winner actually. But at work, I have kind of become better like I don't take either success or failure too strongly now. It's not like it doesn't affect me, it still affects me and it disturbs me a little bit but I have gotten better at coping with it."

The Haseen Dillruba actress will be starring opposite Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for the first time in her next film Dunki. Speaking about working with him, the actress revealed, "I've told him that he is the benchmark or the person that every outsider especially coming from Delhi looks up to. I'm not a superstar but he is a superstar. I don't really feel like when you work with people like him or superstars like him you realize that's what the stakes of the word stardom or star are. That is when paanch saal se koi picture nahi aayi hai (he didn't have a release in the last five years) but one move of his just creates a storm everywhere. His victories are personal, his loss is personal, that's stardom. Not what we feel star is."

Taapsee who has delivered a number of hit projects over the years has many more projects in her kitty. Dunki starring Taapsee and Shah Rukh Khan is set to release in 2023. She will also feature in Anurag Kashyap’s Dobaaraa.