Mrunal Thakur, a Hindi film actor, says she started the profession hoping to work with filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, but she never anticipated the opportunity would come so early in her career with "Toofaan." Thakur portrays Ananya, a psychiatrist who helps convert its protagonist Aziz Ali from a henchman to a professional boxer in the forthcoming sports drama starring Farhan Akhtar.