Taapsee Pannu on the Baby spinoff
Subhash K Jha (DNA; September 3, 2016)

Good things are finally happening to Taapsee Pannu’s career in Hindi cinema.While her latest film Pink is garnering glorious pre-release raves, she has also given consent to a film called Meera to be produced by Neeraj Pandey.

The character will be based on the one that Taapsee played in Pandey’s Baby, where she played a deadly Indian intelligence officer who makes short work of a terrorist in a hotel room.

Taapsee had to undergo rigorous training in action to get the character right in Baby. She will have to work twice as hard on the stunts in Meera, as the film targets itself as the first true action film with a female hero.

Says Taapsee, “I am really excited about Meera. A lot of people felt my character in Baby had potential for development.”

However the spunky actress clears the air about the relationship between Baby and Meera. “While my character is going to be taken from Baby, Meera is neither a prequel nor a sequel to Baby, as reported. It’s part of the Baby franchise. But it’s going to be an independent film, though the character is derivative.”

Meera will be directed by Shivam Nair, best known for directing Ahista Ahista.