India, Feb. 19 -- Taapsee Pannu is returning to the big screen for the first time in two years with Anubhav Sinha's courtroom drama, Assi. Billed as an 'urgent watch', Assi is the third collaboration between the actor and director after Mulk and Thappad, both of which achieved moderate success at the box office. Taapsee and Anubhav would hope a repeat of that with Assi, which releases in a changed box office climate post-pandemic.

The advance booking for Assi opened on Wednesday, two days ahead of its release in theatres. The film is not expected to score big in terms of advance bookings, which is largely reserved for tentpole films. The courtroom drama would hope to build on word of mouth. Critics reviews, which are already out, have pr...