Taapsee signed Telugu film Anando Brahma on profit-sharing basis

Actress Taapsee Pannu worked on her latest Telugu film Anando Brahma free of cost and instead struck a profit-sharing deal with its makers, something very uncommon in the southern film industry.

When Pannu heard the script and found that there was no scope for a leading hero in the film which is the major force for the film's budget and feasibility, she decided that she did not want to burden the film with her remuneration.

She genuinely believed in the script.

"I am today in a position where I have been saying that I don't want to repeat things and want to do something different. And if this is a chance for me to do something different, I can't step back just because I won't get paid that much. I genuinely believed in the script and so thought to take this risk which is a biggest gamble of my career," Pannu told IANS.

Her gamble paid off quite handsomely. Made on a shoestring budget, the film ended up being a sleeper hit in India and the US.

Directed by Mahi Raghav, Anando Brahma is a horror-comedy where the ghosts are afraid of humans.