Bollywood has called for trouble by ganging up against me: Kangana Ranaut

She strongly believes that celebrities have turned against her since she spoke about nepotism in the film industry

Actor-turned-film-maker Kangana Ranaut, who is currently riding high on the success of her latest release Manikarnika - The Queen of Jhansi, says the Hindi film industry has called for trouble by ganging up against her, reported Pinkvilla.

The Simran star in an interview earlier had criticised celebrities for not turning up for the screening of Manikarnika..., but contacting her for the screenings of their films.

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"Earlier, I used to stand up against sexism, pay disparity and nepotism in Bollywood but now, I will expose everybody. One thing is for sure that they have called for trouble by ganging up against me," she said.

Asked if her Manikarnika... would have got more benefit if her colleagues from Bollywood would have promoted the film, Kangana said, "I don't think promotions of my film by other actors will benefit my film. I have already won three national awards and at the age of 31, I have become a film-maker so who are they to promote me? If they get successful in promoting themselves then, it will be a huge thing for them."

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The Queen actor strongly believes that the industry is ganging up against her as she spoke about nepotism in the Hindi film industry.

"I want to ask that whether Rani Laxmibai is my aunt? She is the iconic figure of this country so, why are they behaving like this? It's just because I talked about nepotism. They all have ganged up against me asking me why I have talked about nepotism," Kangana said.

She continued, "It's like a class full of students where the class of 60 students are ganging up against one student and they are constantly bullying him so, tell me how does it feels?"

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The 31-year-old actor, who had sparked the infamous debate by calling film-maker Karan Johar a "flagbearer of nepotism" during her appearance on his chat show Koffee With Karan in 2017, labelled Bollywood celebrities as shameless.

"They are shameless people and some of them are my grandfather's age. I don't want to work with them and I say this to them on their face but we have made this film based on Rani Lamxibai for our future generation because she sacrificed her life for this land," said Kangana.

She added, "Today only Kangana Ranaut is not living in a free country. All citizens of this country are living in free country."

At a press event for Gully Boy on Thursday, Alia said she hopes Kangana isn’t too angry at her. “I hope she doesn’t dislike me and I don’t think she dislikes me. I don’t think I have done anything intentionally to upset her. If I have, I will apologise to her on a personal level,” she said.

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Kangana told Pinkvilla that she called Alia and asked her why she was so scared to see my film. “I reached out to Alia (Bhatt) and asked her what makes her think Manikarnika is my personal controversy, it’s a film whole nation is talking about and wondering why Bollywood is keeping quiet on such a relevant work......I asked her if I can be courteous and gracious to acknowledge her requests for encouraging relevant work that she does, why is she so scared to see my film."

She further added, "I suggested that she grows some spine and support an important film about woman empowerment and nationalism....if she doesn’t have a voice of her own and her existence is all about being KJo puppet then I don’t consider her successful. I told her if she is only focusing on earning bucks and not raise a voice, then her success has no value. Hope she understands the true meaning of success and her responsibilities.”

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