EXCLUSIVE: Is Kangana Ranaut’s ‘guttermouth’ stance a publicity gimmick?

Actress and producer Kangana Ranaut has become a Twitter terror, well, her stance on social media indicates so. While since a few years the actress has been very vocal about all the ‘injustice’ she has met with the nepotistic Bollywood fraternity, since 2016, Kangana is also on a mission to bash the movie mafia left, right and center. But this smear campaign (as Kangana would call it) against Bollywood has now gone to the next level, where we see the Manikarnika actress burn bridges with many popular names of Indian cinema. 

And more often, while keeping her opinion Kangana unknowingly crosses the line. Recently, too when she shared a meme (which is now deleted), not many from the industry paid any heed to her. However, Bollywood and Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh couldn’t stop himself from hitting back and the angry actor got into a war of words with Kangana on Twitter. 

What was the tweet?

While usually playing the victim card, Kangana thought to race her humor horses, but it backfired. Yes, she shared a meme and wrote on Twitter about an elderly woman who is protesting for the rights of farmers, is Shaheen Bagh’s dadi, Bilkis Bano. She further went on to state that publicity-hungry people like her can be bought for Rs 100. This did not go down well with Diljit and he gave it back to Kangana but known the actress and her current state of mind, she to got into an argument with Diljit. Later on many from the Punjabi industry, names like, Himanshi Khurana, Sargun Mehta, Mika Singh, Ammy Virk, Jassie Gill, etc, supported Diljit, following which Kangana deleted the post. 

Well, Kangana’s fake wolf cry and this always proving to be a victim stance has been nothing new. In the past too she has done this with several political leaders and the filmy people. Commenting on this behavior of her and industry insider exclusively tells us, “No one in the industry likes Kangana anymore. There was a time when her words meant something, but now she has become a dog that no one pays any heed to. In fact, even though she had issues with people in the industry earlier, there were many who admired her craft, but sadly now no one even wants to work with her.”

The insider further adds, “Kangana is someone who is beaming with talent, but she is putting her energies into the wrong place. It is good to speak your mind, but making a mountain of a mole is like axing your own feet. No producer wants to work with Kangana, after Manikarnika, no writer wants to write for her, no director wants to work with her and it is all because of her firebrand image off-late.”

During the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Kangana exposed some vices of showbiz, but even there she named a few renowned people. Legendary Javed Akhtar was also one of them and as a result of her foot in the mouth claims, Kangana has also earned a criminal defamation case against her. Javed Akhtar has filed this case and had even appeared in court yesterday, with regards to the same. 

And despite so much, Kangana doesn’t seem to stop. And it is these tactics that make us wonder if this is a well planned and well-thought publicity gimmick from the actress?

Written by Nawaz Kochra