Rashmi Rocket Trailer: Taapsee Pannu Strikes Down Toxic Stereotypes On The Racetrack

Rashmi Rocket trailer review: For years, deserving and qualified sportswomen have been made to endure the humiliating ordeal of going through gender tests – their dignity, identity, selfhood, everything at stake. Taapsee Pannu-starrer Rashmi Rocket, the trailer for which released Thursday, sets out to challenge that reality, breaking several stereotypes about femininity and toxic masculinity on the way. Directed by Akarsh Khurana, and also starring actors Supriya Pathak, Priyanshu Painyuli and Abhishek Banerjee, Rashmi Rocket is gearing up for an OTT release on October 15. Pannu, who took fans on social media through her journey of training hard for the film, appears in top form, boasting a fit physique on screen. But it is often that physique that proves a hurdle for women in sports, especially in India, where the notion of a fit woman relates strictly to certain body standards.

Even women who train hard and play harder are expected to conform to the ‘feminine’ looking frame that isn’t too muscular or too strong-looking or too sturdy. In fitness too, we differentiate between the ideal and undesirable. And basis what? Our subjective, prejudiced ideas of what kind of beauty is agreeable.