Taapsee Pannu‘s upcoming film Gandhari went on floors today. The actress shared a series of pictures from the first day of the shoot on Instagram. In the first picture, director Devashish Makhija and writer-producer Kanika Dhillon are holding the clapboard with Taapsee facing her back towards the camera. Expressing her gratitude to the almighty, the actress wrote, “Dear God, grant my request so that I may never deviate from doing good deeds. That, I shall have no fear of the enemy when I go into battle and with determination I will be victorious. That, I may teach my mind to only sing your praises. And when the time comes, I should die fighting heroically on the field of battle. Let the war begin.” Check out the post here:
Described as an “intense revenge action thriller,” Gandhari centres around a mother’s quest to rescue her kidnapped child. In a conversation with Variety, Kanika Dhillon said, “Gandhari is the story of a mom whose child has been snatched away from her, and what lengths she is going to go to get her daughter back. It’s emotional, it’s powerful. It’s a story of revenge and redemption.”
The film’s title refers to Gandhari, a character from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, who is known for voluntarily blindfolding herself for life after marrying a blind prince. Kanika Dhillon revealed while the film takes inspiration from Gandhari’s story, it goes beyond the well-known aspects. “All of us are aware of the broad story of Gandhari, that she decided she was not going to look at the world or see the world because her husband cannot see. I wanted to interpret it a little differently for this one,” she said.
Gandhari marks the sixth collaboration between Taapsee Pannu and Kanika Dhillon which commenced with Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan in 2018. It was followed by the Netflix original film Haseen Dillruba (2021), its sequel Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba (2024), ZEE5 film Rashmi Rocket (2021) and Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki (2023), headlined by Shah Rukh Khan.