The trailer of Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar starrer Saand Ki Aankh was unveiled recently. The movie portrays them as 60-year-old shooter dadis. After the trailer was unveiled, a few Twitter users criticized the actresses for playing older actresses.

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In fact these Twitteratis went on to critize Saand Ki Aankh casting director for casting Taapsee and Bhumi in the lead role. They assumed that other actors could have pulled off the age better. Taapsee now went on to defend her film on Twitter.

Taking to the micro-blogging site, Taapsee asked why no questions were raised for Anupam Kher in Saaransh, or when Nargis Dutt played mother to Sunil Dutt in Mother India? She also asked why nobody questioned Aamir Khan when he played college kid in 3 Idiots. Further stating about the future, Taapsee asked if questions will be raised again Ayushmann Khurrana playing gay character in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan?

“I hope and can only hope this will answer the question once n for all coz honestly now it’s getting boring for us to repeat ourselves,” wrote the actress. She then began her statement writing, “I wonder... I just wonder... Do we ever want to embrace the positivity or just keep latching on to negativity and glorifying it to save our lack of risk taking tendencies. Have we really lost the shoulder along with our spine to support people who venture out of their comfort zone to bring about a change???? Or it’s just reserved for two females who at relatively nascent stage of their career venture out to do something, which we were told, most of the people turned down?"

Taking the examples, Taapsee questioned, "Are these lovely allegations and questions ore reserved only for us??? Well even if it is... we thank you from the bottom of our heart for noticing our little effort to bring to you something new, something different , something you all want to comment on, something you all want to attach yourself to, be it in any way, and something that attracted your attention. After all cinema is also about thought. Let’s keep the discussion going and hope your questions will be answered and doubts will be cleared this Diwali kyuki hum toh aa rahe hain iss baar pataake nahi goliyaan barsaane. Thank you for all the love and attention you have bestowed upon our small film with BIG heart!”

Read her full statement here:

Saand Ki Aankh is directed by Tushar Hiranandani while the creative producer is Anurag Kashyap. The biopic is co-produced by Reliance Entertainment & Nidhi Parmar. Along with Taapsee, Bhumi and Viineet, Saand Ki Aankh also stars Prakash Jha and Shaad Randhawa in pivotal roles. The film is slated to release during Diwali this year and will face clash with Akshay Kumar starrer Housefull 4 and Rajkummar Rao-Mouni Roy starrer Made In China.