Actress Taapsee Pannu has worked hard on her body for her upcoming film, Rashmi Rocket. In the movie, Taapsee will be seen portraying the role of an athlete. In one of her recent interviews, the Pink actress has talked about how cultivating an athletic body is technically different from developing a bikini body.
In the conversation with Film Companion, Pannu who has done both the body types explained the difference between the two. She has revealed that while a bikini body requires one to look slim and slender, and an athletic body won’t have one in a petite frame. Taapsee elaborated, “There’s a big difference. To get a bikini body, you have to follow a streamlined approach, and that is to simply shed weight. Nothing between your skin and bones. That’s what you have to achieve if you look at the kind of bikini body that people expect to see; slim and slender. Now, I don’t have a body type that can complement that kind of look. I am an athletically built person, so even if I get down to skin and bones, you won’t see that petite frame that you see with a lot of other actors.”
In the interview, the actor also revealed that she had issued ‘standing instructions’ to her team that she would never take any steroids to help her achieve the physique required to play the track and field athlete in Rashmi Rocket, even if that meant falling short of the goals they’d set for her. She continued, “I was always inclined to have a slightly muscular body which looks like I’ve put in the hard work.”
She further added, “It takes a ‘very scientific approach to build an athletic body, with every muscle requiring a different exercise. Attention is also paid to what you eat, and what kind of workout you do, to the kind of machines you use. It’s a different ball game altogether.” She said.
Taapsee was trolled on Twitter for the body she developed for Rashmi Rocket. One user had apparently mocked her athletic body by comparing it to a man’s body. But Taapsee gave it back and thanked him, saying she had worked hard to earn such a comment.
Rashmi Rocket is based on the experiences of female athletes with gender testing in our country. It will be released on ZEE5 this Friday. Before this, Pannu was seen in Netflix’s Haseen Dillruba and Disney+Hotstar’s Annabelle Sethupathi.
