Kangana Ranaut answered all the questions that popped up yesterday on micro-blogging website, Twitter after, Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhaker reacter to her comments. The Queen actor revealed that in her initial days, she didn’t consider nepotism to be a massive hurdle in Bollywood. She accepted that she wasn’t aware of its graveness and consequences back then.
Kangana in an interview with Pinkvilla revealed that, “There have been many challenges and I felt maybe nepotism is one of those that I can override and turn it into my favour and it wasn’t always in play but it only became very toxic and life-threatening when I became the top star.” Talking about its prevalence in the Hindi film industry, she added, “With the kind of society we are in, the kind of industry we are in, 90% of the people kind of belong to film families. They are either friends or they are from the close-knit circle.”
The queen actor further mentioned that back when she mentioned nepotism on Koffee With Karan, she was “just kind of teasing” Karan. She said, “Had I known these people are so dangerous, had I known it would cause death, had I known it is not just something to joke about or tease about, it is just not something about snatching films. It is not only about films, it is also about vengeance, the sadism of the human psyche. I had not done it or taken it so lightly because I think I took it lightly then I was attacked in a way that they went for me.’
Kangana also added that these very people, who practice nepotism have tried to put criminal cases on her, and have tried to sabotage her brands, her films and her whole brand came crashing before Manikarnika because of them. “I think that discouraged Sushant in a huge way who was supporting me and then this is what happened,” she added.
Kangana has been making headlines from past few months because of her explosive statements about nepotism, industry politics and her thoughts on Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The social media has been divided in two dimensions, while many have come to stand in support of the actress, other have been strongly opposing her views. Kangana, on Tuesday, had to face harsh tweet battle because of her explosive statement of “B-grade actresses” on Taapsee Pannu, Swara Bhasker and Richa Chadha.
