Why Kangana Ranaut remains the Queen Uncrowned in spite of her perilous legal battle with Hrithik Roshan By Meena Yeggina
Q ueen she is mainly because of how she streamlined her struggle to success through facing failures and insults head on than letting them disintegrate her. In a world where young girls com- mit suicide almost on a daily basis, Kangana faced life with aplomb and gut-wrenching per- severance. Her life has been an open book and rightfully, peo- ple take inspiration from it and that has remained the actresses main raison d'etre. But none of this glory could have prepared her for the onslaught she received for challenging Hrithik Roshan, one of the most powerful heroes and son of an influential Bollywood family, in a legal battle. It was something no other heroine could have dreamt of doing in the male-dom- inated world of Bollywood in the scare of harming her own career and image. But Kangana, who never seriously cared about such an image, not only committed the unimaginable sin of fac- ing Roshan head on but also, in a stun- ning and transparent retaliation, turned the tables on Roshan in what can be seen as a masterstroke. By choosing to talk to two credible and prominent journalists like Barkha Dutt (NDTV) and Rahul Kanwal (India Today) on the eve of receiving her
third National Award for Tanu wed Mannu Returns Kangana Ranaut dragged and dumped a top star (Hrithik Roshan) and an absolute fledgling (Adhyayan Suman) on to one platform: Total Irrelevancy. By choos- ing not to identify them personally yet talking in general about misogyny and incantations, Kangana relegated Roshan and Suman to equi noth- ingness. “Ten years of humiliation, rejection, and embarrassment could’ve made me
sudden, shocking divorce, sunk to extreme lows to demolish Kangana’s reputation, violating her privacy and debasing her with offensive accusa- tions. Some stories alleged that a tech savvy Roshan, to save his current rela- tionship, went to monumental extremes to debase Kangana’s image. Even if his allegations are indeed true, the cruel- ness with which he made her private feelings to him public saddened and distanced many a women who so far have been his fans. Thus Roshan lost out big on perceptions. Similarly, Suman, another ex, jumping into the fray uninvited, insinuated that Kangana was a manipulative witch, ruining his career simply by associa- tion. This, after six years of their break up, left a bad taste making people
believe what the whole world thought about me-like if they thought about me as a loser, but I didn’t think of myself as that or as what the world or my parents thought of me. That’s why I could do what I did in my life... Not just in India but all over the world, winning and suc- cess in so overrated,” she says. Personally, I always hated stereo- typical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking image of Bollywood’s female celebs and similar roles they played on screen. Kangana’s personal story, her screen roles and her humorous, liberal and candid interviews charmed my heart with a freshness only she can exuberate. Playing Vishwamitra to Kangana’s Menaka, Hrithik Roshan who so far had a good family man image in spite of his
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