Actor Taapsee Pannu and ‘Looop Lapeta’ director Aakash Bhatia feel they have created something new with the film

It is much more than an adaptation of ‘Run Lola Run’, they say

Looop Lapeta comes 24 years after the German thriller Run Lola Run, which had Franka Potente as Lola. But the cast and director of the Hindi adaptation are confident about having created something new. In a video interview accompanied by her co-star and director, Taapsee Pannu, the first to join the project, says half the battle was won when director Aakash Bhatia and Tahir Raj Bhasin came on board. Like Run Lola…, Looop Lapeta pivots on a woman’s (Pannu as Savi) race against time to raise money to save her boyfriend’s (Bhasin) life. So Savi has 80 minutes to navigate multiple dead ends and three time-loops to muster ₹50 lakh.

Fortunately, Bhasin, 34, remembered the original’s style and cutting-edge music from his college days and was excited to see it adapted for a contemporary Indian audience. Pannu, also 34, was especially delighted when he accepted the role as she had anticipated “tricky” casting with the actor having to set aside his ego to work in a film with a woman protagonist. This, however, was not Bhasin’s first time in a woman-centred film; his Bollywood breakthrough came as the antagonist opposite Rani Mukherjee in the thriller Mardaani (2014). Most recently, he played Sunil Gavaskar in Kabir Khan’s ’83 (2021).