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MUMBAI

Long before her Bollywood debut, when Taapsee Pannu danced in a college competition which Anurag Kashyap judged, she was just "a girl in the corner." Today, the actor headlines his projects and the filmmaker says he has found a great friend in her.

"She went to my college for a month. I picked up the choreographer from that song sequence to do choreography in 'Dev D' and she told me the girl in the corner dancing on stage was her. I had no clue," Anurag says in an interview with PTI.

Anurag and Taapsee have worked in just one film, ‘Manmarziyaan’, but the duo has found much more than a creative collaboration. "I've found a great friend in her and I don't say that about a lot of people."

The ‘Sacred Games’ director says both of them relate to each other's journey and struggles. The filmmaker has come on board to present the Hindi version of Taapsee's next, ‘Game Over’, a Tamil/Telugu bilingual drama directed by Ashwin Saravanan. The thriller chronicles the story of a wheelchair-bound woman dealing with a mysterious identity trying to invade her home.

"I heard the idea from Taapsee when she was doing 'Manmarziyaan'. I thought it's a great idea but how will someone pull it off. Then I saw the film and it impacted me. I can't classify it. I don't know if it's a horror, a thriller as several genres cross over in this."

Written by Saravanan and Kaavya Ramkumar, ‘Game Over’ will release on June 14.