Everyone
remembers
Taapsee
Pannu's
powerhouse
performance
in
Pink,
but
she
got
the
role
only
after
'a
popular
female
actor'
refused
it,
director
of
the
film
Aniruddha
Roy
Chowdhury
has
said.
Aniruddha,
however,
did
not
divulge
the
name
of
the
actor
who
rejected
the
role
of
Meenal
Arora.
At
a
discussion
in
the
23rd
Kolkata
International
Film
Festival
last
evening,
director
of
the
2016
film
was
speaking
on
how
it
was
made.
"I
had
narrated
the
story
four
and
half
years
back
to
director-producer
friend
Shoojit
Sircar
on-board
a
flight
and
he
was
hooked
to
the
idea.
A
popular
female
actor
had
refused
to
do
the
character
which
was
ultimately
given
to
Taapsee
Pannu," Aniruddha
said.
The
'Pink'
project
got
rolling
when
Amitabh
Bachchan
agreed
to
do
the
film
after
listening
to
the
story
only
for
5
minutes
at
his
residence,
he
said
adding
that
the
rest
is
history.
"A
film
happens
when
everyone
starts
believing
in
the
subject.
We
see
so
many
things
around
us
everyday,
but
do
we
react?" Aniruddha
said.
'Pink' is
a
powerful
statement
on
moral
policing
and
the
mindset
of
the
country
where
men
and
women
are
judged
by
a
different
yardstick.
The
director
said
his
first
film
'Anuranan'
made
in
2006
also
talked
about
moral
policing.
"Actually
social
element
is
an
integral
part
of
a
film,"
he
said.
Aniruddha
said
he
also
felt
strongly
about
his
Bengali
film
'Buno
Haansh'
made
in
2014.
"I
remember
how
a
20,000
strong
crowd
showered
their
affection
to
the
film
crew
in
Bangladesh
which
had
been
released
in
both
Kolkata
and
Dhaka.
Buno
Haansh
will
remain
as
much
favourite
to
me
as
Pink,"
he
said.
To
a
question,
he
said
a
film
maker
cannot
always
work
with
the
expectation
that
his
or
her
every
film
will
be
a
national
award
winner.
"You
cannot
always
keep
working
that
every
product
will
meet
the
same
quality
benchmark
in
terms
of
expectations.
That
every
work
should
click,
that
every
film
will
be
a
potential
national
award
winner.
You
should
keep
on
experimenting
in
life," Aniruddha,
who
is
now
based
in
Mumbai
working
on
some
upcoming
projects,
said.
"I
had
shifted
to
Mumbai
from
Kolkata
as
I
was
a
little
bit
pained
over
the
present
situations
but
I
won't
elaborate,"
he
said.