Taapsee Pannu’s On-Screen Husband Pavail Gulati On ‘Thappad’: “It Shows Both Sides”

Actor Pavail Gulati gets his big Bollywood break as Taapsee Pannu’s on-screen husband in Anubhav Sinha’s upcoming film “Thappad“, and he says that working with the maker helped him to gain confidence as an actor.

“Anubhav (Sinha) sir allows actors to make mistakes and give inputs in the creative process. If I do something wrong, he won’t humiliate me. I would say that it helped me to gain my confidence as an actor. Usually, sir does not cast any actor without auditioning but I am the lucky one who has been cast as one of the leads in his film! Initially, I was a little sceptical because he has that aura of a serious man,” Pavail told IANS.

“He is a well-built, well-read man, and has made serious films like ‘Article 15′ and ‘Mulk’, and I thought what if he intimidates me? I was a little nervous. I have to say he is younger than me at heart!” smiled the 21-year-old actor.

“Thappad” features Taapsee Pannu and Pavail with Kumud Mishra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Tanvi Azmi, Dia Mirza, and Ram Kapoor, among others. The film, slated to release on February 28, revolves around a young married couple and how one day, when the wife is slapped by the husband in front of guests at a house party, the incident triggers off a chain reaction that lead to self-realisation for her, leading to her walking out of the marriage. Pavail is cast as the career-obsessed husband who misbehaves in public with his wife, essayed by Taapsee.