After playing a hockey player in Soorma (2018), and an octogenarian sharpshooter in her upcoming film, Saand Ki Aankh, Taapsee Pannu is all set to play an athlete yet again in Rashmi Rocket. The film, backed by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP Movies, is directed by Akarsh Khurana, who has earlier helmed Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan and Mithila Palker-starrer Karwaan. After teasing the audience with a few stills of her look in Rashmi Rocket, the makers of the film have shared the official motion poster and we are certainly intrigued.
The motion poster features Taapsee with a tattooed neck as she dons a choker, curly tresses, a heavy nose pin and studs. Soon it moves to Taapsee sprinting her way on a race track. Check it out here:
For the unversed, Rashmi Rocket is about an incredibly fast runner, Rashmi, who hails from Kutch, and the villagers fondly call her Rocket because of her speed on the racing track. Talking about the project, Taapsee told a leading daily, “This story instantly hit the right chord when I heard the idea. It’s one of those few films I was waiting to be developed into a script for me to do. Funnily, I have been made to run in almost every film I’ve done in every other genre. But this time, it’s going to be an out-and-out athlete’s tale. What excited me the most was the human drama that unfolds in her life, which makes it much more than a regular story of an athlete.”
Akarsh, on the other hand, revealed that the project was conceived in Florence, Italy. “Taapsee was there for a film festival with Manmarziyaan (2018) and Mulk(2018). I was at the same event with Karwaa (2018). We saw each other’s films, had some great food, and jammed over an idea that she had," he added.
The shooting of the film will begin soon!
(Source: Youtube/DNA)
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