Karan Johar’s latest production, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, has recently been released on Netflix. While many people praised the film, it also attracted controversy because of the portrayal of the Indian Air Force. Amongst the people who criticised the Janhvi Kapoor-starrer movie, Kangana Ranaut was the one who wrote a poem for Karan Johar, as a dig at his latest production.
The official handle of Kangana Ranaut’s team shared the Hindi poem on Twitter, “Karan Johar ke liye shayari arz hai…Humein nationalism ki dukaan chalani hai par deshbhakti nahi dikhani hai. Pakistan se war wali filmein bahut chalti hain, Hum bhi banaenge lekin uska villain bhi Hindustani hai. Ab third gender bhi aa gaya army mein lekin Karan Johar tu kab samjhega senani sirf senani hai. (A poem for Karan Johar…we want to jump aboard the nationalism bandwagon but won’t show patriotism. Films based on war with Pakistan earn money so we will make such films but the villains in these will still be Indian. Now the third gender has also entered the army, when will you understand, Karan Johar, that a soldier is simply a soldier?).”
करण जोहर पे शायरी अर्ज़ है।
हमें नैशनलिज़म की दुकान चलानी है मगर देश भक्ति नहीं दिखानी है।पाकिस्तान से वार वाली फ़िल्म बहुत पैसा कमाती है, हम भी बनायेंगे मगर उसका विलेन भी हिंदुस्तानी है।अब थर्ड जेंडर भी आर्मी में आ गया है मगर करण जोहर तू कब समझेगा एक सेनानी सिर्फ़ सेनानी है😁🙏— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) August 15, 2020
The team had also criticised the film, earlier and had tweeted, “All n all GS remains a petty film missing the larger picture and essence of a soldier’s life, proving her opponents right who said we are here to protect Bharat Mata but you are here for equal opportunity, that’s pretty much sums up the film in the end Gunjan wins not India.SAD !”
All n all GS remains a petty film missing the larger picture and essence of a soldier’s life, proving her opponents right who said we are here to protect Bharat Mata but you are here for equal opportunity, that’s pretty much sums up the film in the end Gunjan wins not India.SAD !
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) August 15, 2020
Also what is with reluctant desh bhakti, many times Gunjan says in the film’ I don’t love my nation I just want to fly the plane’there was no arc to show she fell in love with the country n how she understood the real meaning of uniform!! All she says,”papa won’t let you down.” https://t.co/rMJOUYFXho
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) August 15, 2020
“Also what is with reluctant desh bhakti, many times Gunjan says in the film’ I don’t love my nation I just want to fly the plane’there was no arc to show she fell in love with the country n how she understood the real meaning of uniform!! All she says, ‘papa won’t let you down’,” the tweet read.
The chief of National Commission for Women (NCW) Rekha Sharma also insisted that the film is an unrealistic portrayal of gender discrimination. However, former flight lieutenant Gunjan Saxena has specified she never faced discrimination and also defended the film, saying it shows that she got equal opportunities.
