At the end of the day, you have to be the hero in your own story.
Bollywood actress, Taapsee Pannu, who received acclaim for her role in the movie Pink has opened up in a moving post about her struggle to make it in the film industry, detailing the sexism, misogyny and the stigma that has seemingly been attached to her name.
Speaking to the popular Facebook page, Humans of Bombay, she throws light on the beginning of her career when she was labelled “bad luck” to any project attached to her name and began to be shunned by producers and directors as a result of it. However she makes it clear that she isn’t complaining about the cards she has been dealt with saying, “Expecting equal pay is far off, even the basic amount is something I have to fight for— but I’m not complaining.”
Being a woman in the industry, she has also had to deal with fans who couldn’t respect her agency. She recalls a time where a man in a crowd was trying to poke her from behind. Taapsee notes, “I didn’t even turn to look at him, I grabbed his finger and twisted it so hard that he winced in pain.”
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Ultimately, her struggles have only made her stronger and unwilling to give up and she isn’t going anywhere. As she resolutely puts it, “Truth is, I’m less heroine and more the ‘hero’ in my story…”
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Posted by Humans of Bombay on Wednesday, March 22, 2017