Taapsee Pannu

Some Lesser Known Facts About Taapsee Pannu

• Does Taapsee Pannu smoke?: No

• Does Taapsee Pannu drink alcohol?: Yes

• She is a Jat Sikhni, who was born and brought up in Delhi. 

• While studying computer engineering in her 2nd year of college, she decided to opt MBA. She also gave CAT exam and scored 88 percentile in it, but she didn’t get the admission where she wanted.

• Since her college days, she has been doing modelling for various ads to manage her daily extra expenses. 

• She was very much active in her school days too; as she used to work as a public speaker and also used to participate in almost all festival competitions.

• She has a huge crush on actor Ranbir Kapoor.

• Taapsee learned Kathak dance for 8 years from the famous Birju Maharaj‘s disciples.

• She had a very studious personality in her school and she was hardly interested in becoming an actress at that time.

• She made her first step into the glam world as a participant on Channel V Get Gorgeous pageant. She later shared that she filled the form very casually and attached some of her candid pictures, and she was surprised on getting selected.

• She participated in Miss India 2008 pageant and got the Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face titles and Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin titles.

• Her Tamil debut Adakulam in 2011 was critically acclaimed by the audience and was also a big commercial success.

• She is the co-owner of an event company named The Wedding Factory, which organises marriages and many such events.

• She is a big Powerpuff girl (a cartoon character), lover.

• While shooting for the court scenes for the film Pink, Taapsee suffered from a viral infection and she decided that she would prefer her voice to be dubbed, but later, Shoojit Sircar asked Taapsee to do it herself; as it added more authenticity to the scenes. 

• Taapsee loves playing squash and she prefers playing it at least half hour every day.

• She has also worked as a software engineer and developed an app- FontSwap.

• She wants to marry someone who is not from the entertainment industry.

• She is given a pseudonym “Goddess of flop heroes,” which is being given to her because she has worked with many South-Indian flop heroes.

• In an interview with Behindwoods, she shared that who so ever she meets, asks her about the meaning of her name, and it happens almost every time she comes across someone, which she finds irritating sometimes.

• She has remained the popular face of magazines like “Just For Women” and “MaaStars”.

• She is among the few South Indian actresses to have had 7 releases in a single year (2011).

• In 2018, she was starred in the biopic of the famous International hockey player- Sandeep Singh, playing the role of Harpreet, along with Diljit Dosanjh. Here’s the trailer of the movie-

• Tapsee produced her first theatrical film ‘Dhak Dhak’ in 2023. She, however, later stopped promoting the film due to a conflict that emerged between her and the studio banner days before the film’s release. As per some reports, the studio banner Viacom 18 restricted Tapsee from implementing her ideas in the film, and because of this she decided to discontinue her involvement in promoting the film and deleted related posts from her social media account. ^[3]Hindustan Times