page_title: Taapsee Pannu
section_title: 2016–present: Career in Bollywood
hierarchical_section_title: Taapsee Pannu / Career / 2016–present: Career in Bollywood
caption_attribution_description: English: Taapsee Pannu walks for Divya Reddy at Lakme Fashion Week 2017.
context_page_description: Taapsee Pannu is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi, Tamil-language films. Her accolades include a Filmfare Award and she has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2018.
  Pannu made her acting debut with the 2010 Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam and then starred in the 2011 films Aadukalam, Vastadu Naa Raju and Mr. Perfect. In 2013, she appeared in the Tamil film Arrambam and made her Hindi film debut with the successful comedy Chashme Baddoor. She went on to star in several commercially successful Hindi films, including the courtroom drama Pink, the war drama The Ghazi Attack, the action comedy Judwaa 2, the mystery thriller Badla and the space drama Mission Mangal. For portraying the septuagenarian sharpshooter Prakashi Tomar in the biopic Saand Ki Aankh, she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
context_section_description: Taapsee appeared alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Kirti Kulhari in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's courtroom drama Pink (2016). With a worldwide revenue of ₹1.08 billion (US$15 million), Pink emerged as a commercial success and received critical acclaim, earning the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues; Pannu's performance garnered her a nomination for the Zee Cine Award for Best Actress.
  Taapsee's first release of 2017 was the romantic comedy Running Shaadi, followed by the naval war drama The Ghazi Attack, both of which were average grossers. She next reprised her role of Shabana Khan in Naam Shabana—a spin-off of Baby (2015)—with Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Madhurima Tuli, and Manoj Bajpayee. Commercially, the film fared well and collected a total of ₹569 million (US$8.0 million). In her final release of the year, Taapsee collaborated with David Dhawan in the action comedy Judwaa 2, a reboot of 1997 comedy Judwaa, about the story of twin brothers (both played by Varun Dhawan) who are separated at their birth but reunite in their youth. She and Jacqueline Fernandez played the love interests of Dhawan's characters. The movie became a major commercial success with earnings of more than ₹1.35 billion (US$19 million) in India.
  2018 was a critically and commercially unsuccessful year in Taapsee's career as her all four releases–Dil Juunglee, Soorma, Mulk and Manmarziyaan–underperformed at the box office. However, her portrayal of a lawyer in Anubhav Sinha's Mulk was critically praised, earning her a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress nomination. She began 2019 by playing a businesswoman in Sujoy Ghosh's mystery thriller Badla, which marked her second collaboration with Amitabh Bachchan. The film was successful at the box office grossing over ₹1.3 billion (US$18 million) worldwide. Her second release was the drama Game Over, a bilingual film in Tamil and Telugu. She next played a devoted wife who cares for her army husband as a nurse despite first fulfilling her dream of becoming a scientist in the Jagan Shakti-directed Mission Mangal, a space drama about the contribution of the scientists to India's 2013 Mars Orbiter Mission. The film received generally positive response; many critics opined that she gives a "more challenging" performance in her career. With a domestic collection of over ₹2 billion (US$28 million), Mission Mangal proved Taapsee's biggest success and one of the highest-grossing Indian films. Her final 2019 film was Tushar Hiranandani's biographical film Saand Ki Aankh, co-starring Bhumi Pednekar, in which she played sharpshooter Prakashi Tomar. Though it was commercially unsuccessful at the box office, her performance was positively reviewed. She was nominated for her second consecutive Filmfare Critics Best Actress Award and won both the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and the Screen Award for Best Actress (Critics).
  Anubhav Sinha's female-oriented drama Thappad (2020), about a woman filing divorce after her husband slaps her, marked Taapsee's first film release of 2020. Co-starring Pavail Gulati, it received positive response and was moderately successful. 
  She will next star in the murder mystery Haseen Dillruba opposite Vikrant Massey, the Tamil-language spy thriller Janaganamana opposite Jayam Ravi, the athletic drama Rashmi Rocket opposite Aparshakti Khurana and the sports biopic Shabaash Mithu as cricketer Mithali Raj. In addition, Taapsee will team up with Tahir Raj Bhasin for the drama Looop Lapeta and with Vijay Sethupathi in an untitled Tamil-language comedy film.
caption: Taapsee walks for Divya Reddy at Lakme Fashion Week, 2017
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