Shah Rukh Khan-Taapsee Pannu to do a film together – are new pairings the latest fixation of Bollywood?

While we have seen filmmakers experiment with stories and concepts on the big screen

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Other than its entertaining concept of songs and dance in films, Bollywood is also celebrated for its iconic on-screen pairings. Be it Shah Rukh-Kajol, Ranveer-Deepika, Varun-Alia, Shahid-Kareena, Salman-Preity and many more, their chemistry has proven to be the best on the big screen. However, seeing these pairings again and again in films can get monotonous for the audience, which is why we often see filmmakers experiment with on-screen pairs. Now that for a while there has been no fresh one the 70 mm all of us might get to see one soon. 

As per latest reports, Shah Rukh Khan and Taapsee Pannu will be coming together for a film helmed by Rajkumar Hirani. Not only is this a good news for SRK fans, but even for others because while we see Shah Rukh on the big screen after a two-year sabbatical, it’s going to be new chemistry with a new leading lady that we will witness.  Shah Rukh Khan’s last two pairings on the big screen were with actresses Alia Bhatt and Mahira Khan. While it is unusual to see superstars share screen space with young actresses until they attain a certain level of stardom, so has not been the case with his latest leading lady - Taapsee. 

From the young generation, Taapsee has been a bankable star. Not only has she shared screen space with the likes of Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar earlier, but has been signing big films one after another. Even now Taapsee has an interesting line-up Rashmi Rocket, Loop Lapeta, Haseen Dillruba and the Mithali Raj biopic. And pairing with the King of romance from Bollywood would surely be big deal for the young actress. 

And it is their pairing which makes us wonder if fresh on-screen pairs are the current fixation in Bollywood? Well, we keep seeing new pairs in Bollywood films, very often, some latest ones we loved watching on the big screen were Shahid Kapoor-Kiara Advani, Hrithik Roshan-Mrunal Thakur, Aamir Khan-Anushka Sharma, Aamir-Katrina, etc. Not only actors even the seasoned actresses have been paired with fresh heroes, like Kareena Kapoor Khan and Diljit Dosanjh in Udta Punjab, Deepika Padukone-Vikrant Massey in Chappaak. Even from the younger lot, we are seeing this experimentation, be it an Ishaan Khatter with Tabu or a Kartik Aaryan with Kriti Sanon/Bhumi Pednekar/Ananya Pandey, looks like Bollywood filmmakers are falling back on this easy trick of experimentation and it even works for most. 

Now with some other fresh pairings like that of SRK-Taapsee in Rajkumar Hirani’s film, Akshay Kumar-Manushi Chillar in Prithviraj, Shahid Kapoor-Mrunal Thakur in Jersey, Janhavi Kapoor-Kartik Aaryan in Dostana 2, Varun Dhawan-Sara Ali Khan in Coolie No.1, we will have to see who from them emerges as the next IT couple. 

Written by Nawaz Kochra (Entertainment Journalist, Mumbai)

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