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 creative collaboration. "I've found a great friend in her and I don't say that about a lot of people." Anurag says unlike his longtime friend and collaborator Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who has "grown" with him, he did not know Taapsee from Adams.