The Indian actress and a model Taapsee Pannu says that feminism is not about asking for a reservation. Taapsee made her acting debut with the 2010 movie Telugu movie “Jhummandi Naadam”, which was directed by Raghavendra Rao. Later, she appeared in many films like Aadukalam, Vastadu Naa Raju, and Mr. Perfect. Later in 2015, she made her debut with the Bollywood movie titled ‘Baby’, which was directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Bhushan Kumar. She rose the popularity from her role in the movie ‘Pink’ along with the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. Currently, she is gearing up for her upcoming action- comedy film titled “Judwaa 2“, which is directed by David Dhawan and jointly produced by Fox Star Studios and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The movie features Varun Dhawan in a double role as estranged twins opposite Jacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu.
After playing the powerful roles in the movies like ‘Baby’ and ‘Pink’ Taapsee feels that the movies are not about asking for reservation or extra rights so that to get an edge over the gender equality, but the movies is all about working towards the gender equality.
On Sunday, the actress unveiled the common Women poster of R.K Laxman’s granddaughter. Taapsee says, “We should start with equality in education, where you have the right to say something, to stand for something which you believe in. Feminist isn’t someone who is going to ask for a reservation or extra rights or an edge over the other gender… No, that’s not called feminism. It’s someone who works towards gender equality.” Moreover, she said that she herself is a very proud common woman. She said, “If there is anything I can, I will do it for a lot of common women.”
On being asked that how she remained a common woman after the fame and a huge fan following, Taapsee said, “I would like to thank those people who are from outside the film industry, those who have supported me and brought in me the sense of being a common woman. That is very important because when you are an actor, you can lose the sense of reality. You have to be very real, very grounded and very normal and that’s where my family and friends stepped in. I think because of their support, I wasn’t scared to fall… That’s why I kept on taking one risk after the other, that’s my backbone.”