Exclusive! ‘Thappad’ actor Pavail Gulati opens up about bonding with co-star Taapsee Pannu

Actor Pavail Gulati will be seen working with actress Taapsee Pannu for the first time in filmmaker Anubhav Sinha’s upcoming film, ‘

Thappad

’. Although he has always been in awe of the actress, he revealed that he was nervous when he first met her on the set. From being nervy to becoming good friends, Pavail Gulati opened up about his

bonding

with Taapsee Pannu in an exclusive interview with ETimes.
Describing his first meeting with the actress, he said, “It was lovely. I had never met Taapsee before. I was just coming out of one film directly into another one. I was feeling a little nervous because Taapsee and Anubhav Sinha have worked together. Anubhav Sinha introduced me to her. I saw her and went to shake hands with her and she came forward and hugged me. We both are from Delhi so we bonded on that point. She is very welcoming. As she too is an outsider in this industry, she understood where I was coming from.”
Elaborating further, he added, “We are very good friends now. I call her up for advice now and then. She gets angry for calling her for everything as she wants me to make my own decisions. I ask her everything I want to know.”
Earlier, in an interview, Taapsee had talked about how Pavail slapped her seven times in a scene. Clarifying the same, Pavail averred, “I was very nervous before the scene as slapping someone isn’t the nicest thing in the world. There were too many people on the set as it was supposed to be a party scene. Everyone was trying to calm me down but I was still nervous about it. While you are already under the pressure of pulling off that scene, then are some technical aspects involved where the

slap

has to be from the correct angle and have the correct impact. All this took me six takes. And then Taapsee came up to me and said, ‘Just don’t think about anything. Ghumake laga de’! Finally, we got the seventh one right.”
The trailer of ‘Thappad’ directed by Anubhav Sinha has been much appreciated by people. The film is the story of an educated woman who is forced to continue her marriage even after her husband publicly slaps her.
It is slated to hit the theatres on February 28, 2020.