‘Glad critics felt I am worthy of an award’
Actor Taapsee Pannu, who recently won the Filmfare Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor (Female), has reacted on the controversy that the awards ceremony has generated this year, over Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy sweeping most of the awards.
She said she is happy that her name wasn’t dragged in the controversy as I am so used to it. And that she is glad that critics felt she was worthy of an award.
“It took time but finally I got it and what should I say other than that? I was preparing my speech for it since 2016 and it was of no use. But this year I didn’t prepare a speech and that day I had to deliver it, Taapsee said.
‘Happy birthday Patralekhaa. I still remember seeing you in an advertisement and wondering I wish I could meet this girl one day. And as destiny would have it, much to my desire, I met you a month later. It has been so many years of togetherness yet it feels like we've just met. You are the prettiest and the strongest girl I've met.’ —Rajkummar Rao
Badlapur, an action-thriller, has completed five years since it was released, and its actress Radhika Apte is super nostalgic.
Reminiscing about working with Sriram Raghavan, who helmed the film, Radhika said, “I think Sriram has a very peculiar eye about thrillers like no one else does, he is one of the most passionate people I have met, I mean he watches cinema, everything that is made available to him.”
The film featured Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead roles.
Jennifer returns to acting after marriage
Actor Jennifer Lawrence is all set to return to the screen for the first time after marriage last year. She has taken up a role in director Adam McKay’s forthcoming Netflix comedy titled Don’t Look Up.
The Oscar-winning actress wed Cooke Maroney last year. Her new film follows two scientists who discover a meteor that is set to strike Earth in six months’ time and attempts to warn the rest of the world.
“She’s what folks in the 17th century used to call ‘a dynamite act’. And the fact that Netflix sees this film as a worldwide comedy sets the bar high for me and my team in an exciting and motivating way,” McKay said.