Taapsee
Pannu's
upcoming
release
Thappad
is
being
hailed
as
a
much
needed
Bollywood
film
to
address
domestic
violence.
Directed
by
Anubhav
Sinha,
the
film
is
about
a
husband
and
wife
who
seem
to
have
nothing
wrong
in
their
marriage,
but
one
slap
changes
everything.
Taapsee
believes
that
domestic
violence
is
the
elephant
in
the
room
and
Thappad
will
expose
it.
Taapsee
told
PTI,
"The
film
is
not
just
about
domestic
violence.
It
is
just
one
trigger.
There
is
a
dialogue
in
the
film
which
says
'I
can
suddenly
see
all
the
unfair
things
that
I
did
not
notice
earlier'.
So
Thappad
(slap)
is
a
trigger
and
suddenly
you
see
these
things
that
were
taken
for
granted
in
a
relationship."
She
continued
to
say
that
they
are
trying
to
bring
out
the
elephant
in
the
room
through
the
film.
She
is
eager
to
see
how
many
discussions
or
how
many
awkward
silences
Thappad
will
give
rise
to.
Taapsee
added
that
setting
the
film
in
an
urban,
upper-middle
class
family
context
was
a
conscious
choice
to
counter
the
common
notion
that
domestic
violence
happens
only
in
houses
where
people
are
uneducated.
"This
happens
in
educated
families
as
well.
It
is
happening
with
three
women
out
of
five," she
said.
She
also
spoke
about
how
women
are
told
to
deal
with
things
differently
than
men.
"It
is
like
there
is
a
(separate)
to-do
list
for
both
women
and
men
that
is
expected
from
them
in
a
relationship.
Who
decided
this?
Did
you
just
blindly
follow
what
was
told
to
you?
It
is
not
a
mistake
of
any
one
person
but
of
everyone
as
a
society
that
we
are
trying
to
normalize
it,"
she
said.
Apart
from
Taapsee,
Thappad
also
stars
Pavail
Gulati,
Dia
Mirza,
Tanvi
Azmi,
Ratna
Pathak
Shah,
Manav
Kaul
and
Kumud
Mishra.
It
releases
on
February
28.