Days after saying that Bollywood actors are “full of themselves”, actor-politician Kangana Ranaut took another jab at the Hindi film industry, saying “it's a hopeless place”.
In a recent interview with Mashable India, in connection with the promotion of her upcoming film Emergency, she was asked whether she’s boycotting Bollywood or if Bollywood is boycotting her. She replied: “Bollywood is, honestly, a very hopeless place.”
She also added “Kuch nahi hone wala inka. Ek toh talent se ye jalte hain. Jo bhi inko talented dikhta hain na uske piche pad ke ya toh usko khatam kar dete hain unka career barbaad kar dete hain... unko boycott kar dete hain. Itna ganda PR kar kar ke unko badnaam karte hain (They will never improve. They are jealous of talent. If they see someone talented, they go after them to destroy their career. They defame the people with bad PR.)”
“They do all this out in the open. That’s how they ruin people’s careers,” Ranaut said.
Emergency, directed by Ranaut, is a political thriller on the nationwide emergency declared in 1975 by the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
The film also features Shreyas Talpade, Milind Soman and Vishak Nair, and is set to hit the big screen on September 6.
She had courted another controversy recently, when she said that the farmer protests in India could have led to a Bangladesh-like situation if the top leadership of the country was not strong enough. She also alleged that bodies had been hung and rapes had occurred during these protests.
BJP, however, chose to distance itself from her remarks, and reprimanded her. She was also directed by the party not to make such statements in the future.