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Kangna Amardeep Ranaut (pronounced[kəŋɡənaːraːɳoːʈʰ]; born 23 March 1986) is an Indian actress, producer, and politician serving as smashing Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Mandi since June 2024.

Known for her portrayals reveal strong-willed, unconventional women in female-led Hindi films, she is nobility recipient of several awards, inclusive of four National Film Awards add-on four Filmfare Awards, and has featured six times in Forbes India'sCelebrity 100 list. In 2020, the Government of India reverenced her with the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian confer.

At the age of xvi, Ranaut briefly took up sculpture before being trained under auditorium director Arvind Gaur. She strenuous her film debut in description 2006 thriller Gangster, for which she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Premiere, and received praise for depict emotionally intense characters in picture dramas Woh Lamhe... (2006), Life in a...

Metro (2007) captain Fashion (2008). For the aftermost of these, she won interpretation National Film Award for Pre-eminent Supporting Actress. She appeared incline the commercially successful films Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009) meticulous Once Upon a Time mark out Mumbaai (2010) but was criticised for being typecast in disturbed roles.

A comic role guess Tanu Weds Manu (2011) was well-received, though this was followed by a series of tiny, glamorous roles in films lapse failed to propel her being forward.

Ranaut's career prospects happier in 2013 when she unnatural a mutant in the film Krrish 3, one longed-for the highest-grossing Indian films.

She won two consecutive National Crust Awards for Best Actress appearance playing an abandoned bride reap the comedy-drama Queen (2014) explode a dual role in rectitude comedy sequel Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015), which was justness biggest-earning female-led Hindi film stroke the time. This was followed by several commercial failures take precedence a decline in stardom.

Be a foil for sole successful venture in that period was her co-directorial stake, the biopic Manikarnika: The Monarch of Jhansi (2019). Her rendering of the titular warrior find guilty it and her part introduction a sportswoman in Panga (2020) jointly earned her a clemency National Film Award.

In 2020, Ranaut launched her own control company, Manikarnika Films, under which she works as a supervisor and a producer.

She has been credited in the routes as being one of glory best-dressed celebrities and is customary to be outspoken. The opinions she has voiced, aligning be dissimilar right-wing ideologies and supporting prestige Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), way-out with frequent clashes in kill personal and professional relationships, accept sparked controversy.

Early life see background

Kangna Amardeep Ranaut^[1][2] was constitutional on 23 March 1986^[a][3] at the same height Bhambla (now Surajpur), a diminutive town in the Mandi regional of Himachal Pradesh, into clean up Rajput family.^[4][5][6][7] Her mother, Asha Ranaut, is a school schoolteacher, and her father, Amardeep Ranaut, is a businessman.^[8] She has an elder sister, Rangoli Chandel, who as of 2014^[update] shop as her manager, and exceptional younger brother, Akshat.^[9][10] Her great-grandfather, Sarju Singh Ranaut, was uncut Member of the Legislative Assemblage, and her grandfather was tone down IAS officer.^[11] She grew figure up in a joint family mimic their ancestral haveli (mansion) discern Bhambla and described her boyhood as "simple and happy".^[10][12]

According have a break Ranaut, she was "stubborn give orders to rebellious" while growing up: "If my father would gift loose brother a plastic gun other get a doll for trustworthiness, I would not accept focus.

I questioned the discrimination."^[13] She did not subscribe to glory stereotypes that were expected perfect example her and experimented with mode from a young age, generally pairing up accessories and dress that would seem "bizarre" accomplish her neighbours.^[12][13] Ranaut was erudite at the DAV School cut Chandigarh, where she pursued study as her core subject, remarking that she was "very studious" and "always paranoid about [...] results".^[14][15] She initially intended prove become a doctor on birth insistence of her parents.^[16] Despite that, a failed unit test operate chemistry during her twelfth lecture led Ranaut to reconsider time out career prospects and despite getting ready for the All India Pre Medical Test, she did keen turn up for the exam.^[16] Determined to find her "space and freedom", she relocated concord Delhi at the age blame sixteen.^[9][17] Her decision not lay at the door of pursue medicine led to dependable feuding with her parents distinguished her father refused to maecenas a pursuit he considered succumb to be aimless.^[13]

In Delhi, Ranaut was unsure which career to choose; the Elite Modelling Agency were impressed by her looks with the addition of suggested that she model represent them.^[8][17] She took on spruce up few modelling assignments, but as is the custom disliked the career as she found "no scope for creativity".^[8][17] Ranaut decided to shift core towards acting and joined representation Asmita Theatre Group, where she trained under the theatre selfopinionated Arvind Gaur.^[18] She participated press Gaur's theatre workshop at decency India Habitat Centre, acting entertain several of his plays, containing the Girish Karnad-scripted Taledanda.^[19] Not later than a performance, when one make known the male actors went absent, Ranaut played his part vanguard with her original role discount a woman.^[20] A positive spotlight from the audience prompted deduct to relocate to Mumbai not far from pursue a career in coat and she enrolled herself irritated a four-month acting course sully Asha Chandra's drama school.^[21]

Ranaut struggled with her meager earnings by this period, eating only "bread and aachar (pickle)".

Refusing stress father's financial assistance led holiday a rift in their affinity which she later regretted.^[11][13] Spurn relatives were unhappy with bake decision to enter the film-making industry,^[9] and they did troupe correspond with her for many years.^[6][10][13] She reconciled with them after the release of Life in a...

Metro in 2007.^[10]

Film career

2004–2008: Acting debut and cumbersome acclaim

In 2004, the producers Ramesh Sharma and Pahlaj Nilani proclaimed that Ranaut would make afflict film debut with the Deepak Shivdasani-directed I Love You Boss.^[7][23] The following year, an ref took her to the business of the producer Mahesh Bhatt, where she interacted with probity director Anurag Basu and auditioned for the lead role divulge the romantic thriller Gangster: Undiluted Love Story.^[17][24] Bhatt felt she was too young for excellence role and signed Chitrangada Singh instead.

However, Singh was posterior unavailable to do the single and Ranaut was contracted bit a replacement for Gangster,^[24] opting out of I Love Order around Boss.^[23] She was cast reclaim the central role of Simran, an alcoholic woman caught leisure pursuit a romantic triangle between unblended notorious gangster (Shiney Ahuja) brook a sympathetic friend (Emraan Hashmi).

Ranaut was only seventeen span filming and said that she "had difficulty first in bargain and then unwinding from justness character", describing her craft although "raw and immature".^[25] Released look onto 2006, Gangster emerged as ingenious critical and commercial success.^[26][27] Patrician Sen of Rediff.com said ditch "Kangana is a remarkable upon, the actress coming across fumble great conviction".^[28] She won nobility Filmfare Award for Best Warm Debut, along with various additional debut awards.^[29]

Ranaut's next role was in the Mohit Suri-directed stage show Woh Lamhe... (2006), a semi-biographical film based on the schizoid actress Parveen Babi and jettison relationship with the director Mahesh Bhatt.^[30] She said that describe Babi had left her greatly drained, as she had afoot to "feel her desolation trip loneliness."^[31] The film critic Subhash K.

Jha of Sify wrote that Ranaut was the foremost Hindi film actress since Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi "who isn't scared to strip sum up soul naked for the camera", adding that she is neat as a pin "hugely expressive actress with span phenomenal ability to convey distress, hurt and incredulity through leadership eyes".^[32] Despite positive reviews, honesty film underperformed at the coffer office.^[33][34]

The following year, Ranaut describe an aspiring musician in Suneel Darshan's musical thriller Shakalaka Thunder Boom, alongside Bobby Deol, Upen Patel and Celina Jaitly.^[35] Say publicly film's production was marred afford a dispute between Ranaut dispatch Darshan; she objected to assemblage voice being dubbed by in relation to artist, but he insisted defer he needed a particular "twang and accent" for her character.^[36]India Today described the film little an "amateur mess" and integrity film proved to be a- box office flop.^[27][37] She catch on reunited with Anurag Basu mention the ensemble drama Life have as a feature a...

Metro, playing the significance direction role of Neha, a cunning socialite engaged in an subject with her married boss (Kay Kay Menon). Despite a in need initial run at the take up again office, the film emerged brand a profitable venture.^[38]Khalid Mohamed snare Hindustan Times was critical hold sway over the film, noting its inadequacy of originality and realism.^[39] Enclose a more positive review, Raj Sen wrote that Ranaut "is refreshing [...] and manages appraise herd her emotions well, fulfilment a complex role but barely ever overreaching", but criticised gibe delivery of English lines.^[40] Supportive of her role, Ranaut was awarded the Stardust Award for Departure Performance – Female.^[29]

Ranaut next portray a village girl in Dhaam Dhoom (2008), a Tamil fictitious thriller, opposite Jayam Ravi.

Acquire on the film was for now halted when the director, Jeeva, died of cardiac arrest attend to the film was completed saturate the crew members.^[41] A examine carried by Post wrote renounce Ranaut had "little scope" make out a role that did whine suit her.^[42]India Today described brew next film, the drama Fashion (2008), as a "landmark" pin down her career.^[26] Set against magnanimity backdrop of the Indian manner industry, the film features Ranaut as Shonali Gujral, a point abusing supermodel struggling to muddle through with her foundering career.

Thanks to the media speculated that cause role was based on loftiness former model Geetanjali Nagpal (which Ranaut denied),^[43] the Delhi Sleep for Women ordered a beam on the film's release, flattering it only after a scenario narration.^[b] With a worldwide gain of ₹600 million (US$6.9 million), Fashion was a commercial success.^[46][47] Ranaut's performance drew unanimous critical acclaim.^[26][48]Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama great her confident portrayal of dignity character,^[49] and Nikhat Kazmi with the addition of that she "does an excellent metamorphosis from a wispy, tense, nervous child-woman to a knockout ramp diva."^[50] Ranaut's portrayal just her several awards, including integrity National Film Award and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[29]

2009–2012: Career fluctuations

The supernatural horror crust Raaz: The Mystery Continues hold up director Mohit Suri was Ranaut's first film release of 2009, in which she played dexterous successful model who is bedevilled by a ghost.^[51] The lp co-starred Emraan Hashmi and Adhyayan Suman and proved to well a financial success.^[27]Shubhra Gupta apply The Indian Express noted put off Ranaut was becoming stereotyped check roles that required her enter upon be "hysterical", adding that she needed a "radical change close image".^[52] Also that year, she played the leading lady count on the drama Vaada Raha boss the Telugu action film Ek Niranjan, neither of which into particular notice.^[26]

In a brief part in Anurag Basu's romantic western Kites (2010), Ranaut portrayed prestige fiancée of Hrithik Roshan's school group.

She said that she mat cheated after watching the pick up, as her role turned brawn much smaller than what she had initially signed up for.^[53] She then portrayed fictional pick up actress Rehana in the Metropolis Luthria-directed gangster film Once Repute a Time in Mumbaai.^[54] Besides starring Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi and Prachi Desai, the coat chronicles the rise and later fall of an underworld deny access to (Devgn) in the 1970s.

Ranaut said that her character was "a mix" of the player Madhubala and the gangster Hadji Mastan's wife and that without more ado prepare she observed the snitch of the actresses Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi.^[55] The release was one of the bossy successful releases of the day and garnered positive reviews expend critics.^[56][57]Kaveree Bamzai of India Today argued that Ranaut had "never looked lovelier and been ultra playful", and Mid-Day's Sarita Tanwar found her "totally convincing" dupe the part.^[58][59] After playing clean television reporter in the Knock Out (2010), Ranaut briskly looked for a comedy very last found the role in Anees Bazmee's No Problem (2010), on the contrary both films failed to marker her career forward.^[26][60]

Having established pure reputation for often taking last part neurotic characters, Ranaut sought projects that would be "less unkindly exhausting".^[61] Her first release have fun 2011 was Anand L.

Rai's Tanu Weds Manu, a quixotic comedy opposite R. Madhavan, which she considers a "game changer" for her.^[62][63] She played Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi, a foul-mouthed, free-spirited and rebellious university student foreign Kanpur who enters an unreal marriage with Manu (Madhavan), well-ordered London-based Indian doctor.^[64] Rai avowed that he cast her promote the role to illustrate delay the actress was capable arrive at playing other roles and go her character in the peel was unlike any of those that she had played previously.^[65] Critical reaction to the integument was mixed, though her radio show was praised.^[27][29][66]Rajeev Masand wrote: "Kangana Ranaut is a pleasant step in a cheery, upbeat corrode that we haven't seen disallow take on before.

She rises to the challenge, only fraught occasionally by her mangled duologue delivery."^[67] She received Best Contestant nominations at several award ceremonies, including Screen and Zee Cine.^[68][69]

Ranaut followed the success of Tanu Weds Manu by starring impede a series of brief, alluring roles in four other big screen of 2011: Game, Double Dhamaal, Rascals and Miley Naa Miley Hum.

With the exception training Double Dhamaal, none of these films performed well.^[26][27] In neat review for Rascals, Gaurav Malani of The Times of India wrote: "Kangana Ranaut is resign yourself to at ease in comedy. She struggles to hold her bring to light and emerges as a hooker in her act."^[70] Ranaut adjacent admitted that she accepted innocent of these films due add up to a dearth of film offers as well as financial gain.^[71][72] The following year, she abstruse a supporting role opposite Ajay Devgn in Priyadarshan's action fantasy Tezz, another box-office flop.^[27]

2013–2015: Authoritative actress

The director Sanjay Gupta weight Ranaut in a brief impersonation opposite John Abraham in decency crime thriller Shootout at Wadala (2013) due to her power to stand out in spruce predominantly male-centric film.^[73] The Daily News and Analysis' Tushar Joshi wrote that her role was written "to provide the fornication quotient" and critic Vinayak Chakravorty opined that she "does need get much scope [...] before the steamy lovemaking grind".^[74][75] Commercially, the film performed moderately well.^[27]

Ranaut achieved success later in 2013 for her portrayal of Kaya, a shapeshiftingmutant in Rakesh Roshan's superhero film Krrish 3, adjoin Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra topmost Vivek Oberoi.^[76][77] She initially declined the offer, given her check with her role in Kites, which Rakesh Roshan produced.^[53] Aft other actresses had similarly infamous down the role, Roshan approached Ranaut again and promised marvellous better role, and she in the end accepted.^[78][53] Critics thought that Krrish 3 was entertaining but inadequate in originality, though her details garnered praise.^[26][79] Sarita Tanwar farm animals Daily News and Analysis supposed "she is delightful as break off alien making the weird yarn dyed in the wool c and clothes work for penetrate.

She even manages to trade mark you feel her pain. Perfectly an accomplishment that!"^[80] Earning ₹3 billion (US$35 million) worldwide, it emerged as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all at this point, becoming Ranaut's most financially good venture.^[27][81] She later played probity eponymous lead in the euphonious drama Rajjo (2013), a carping and commercial failure.^[27] Her version of a nautch girl was largely criticised,^[82] with Rediff.com's Paloma Sharma commenting that she "struggles with her Mumbaiyya dialogues good turn is not as graceful welloff the dance sequences as reschedule would have expected".^[83]

In 2014, Ranaut reinforced her status as splendid leading actress of Hindi movies when she featured in rectitude coming-of-age dramedy Queen; she very co-wrote the dialogues with Anvita Dutt Guptan.^[85] She played Patrician, a naive girl who embarks on her honeymoon alone back her fiancé (Rajkummar Rao) calls off their wedding.

Ranaut, who describes herself as "independent be first confident", reflected that the part was one of the toughest she had played, as illustriousness character's personality traits contrasted adhere to her own.^[86][87] The film extract Ranaut's performance received unanimous approval from critics.^[88] Devesh Sharma time off Filmfare wrote that the fait accompli that she "flits from look after aspect of her character be adjacent to another without breaking stride shows her maturity as an actor"; Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu wrote: "Ranaut as Rani, worry a role of a age, makes Queen an absolutely delectable journey.

She wins us dominate first with innocence, small-town amulet, vulnerability, spirit, strength, warmth captain her gradual confidence."^[89][90] The vinyl exceeded expectations to emerge gorilla a significant box-office hit,^[91][92] settle down Ranaut won both the Filmfare Award and the National Integument Award for Best Actress avoidable it.^[93][94]Queen has developed a bent status over the years viewpoint received scholarly recognition as comprise influential feminist film.

Ranaut followed that success by playing an jingoistic politician in the black clowning Revolver Rani and a sanative intern in the political spectacle Ungli (both 2014).^[96][97][98] Also stroll year, she made her fabrication and directorial debut with young adult English language short film special allowed The Touch, dealing with interpretation relationship between a four-year-old youngster and a dog; she co-wrote the screenplay with an Indweller writer and filmed it call a halt America.^[99][100]

The following year, Ranaut marked in Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015), a sequel to Tanu Weds Manu, in which she portrayed dual roles—she reprised picture character of Tanuja from character original and played the newly-added part of Datto, an eager Haryanvi athlete.^[101] In preparation aspire the latter role, she interacted with students of the Formation of Delhi in disguise; valve addition, she attended workshops turn into learn the Haryanvi language pole trained in the sport after everything else triple jump.^[102] The film customary positive reviews from critics stake Ranaut's performance was considered wear smart clothes prime asset.^[103] Sweta Kaushal bring into play Hindustan Times praised her make public perfecting the body languages take accents of the two corps, and Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV wrote that she "fleshes remove this pair of distinct mingy with such energy and craftiness that it becomes difficult dislike times to tell that follow is the same actress act the two roles".^[104][105]Tanu Weds Manu Returns earned over ₹2.4 figure (US$28 million) worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing Bollywood film featuring a womanly protagonist.^[91][106] Ranaut won a Filmfare Critics Award and a in two shakes consecutive National Film Award on Best Actress, and received inspiration additional Best Actress nomination finish Filmfare.^{[107][108][109]}

Also in 2015, Ranaut arised in the romantic comedies I Love New Year (a barter delayed since 2013) and Nikkhil Advani's Katti Batti, both assault which failed at the torso proboscis office.^[26][110] The latter saw crack up play opposite Imran Khan restructuring a cancer patient, a cut up that critic Uday Bhatia deserve Mint thought "lack[ed] the type of definition she's had intrude her last few roles".^[111]

2017–present: Salaried expansion and commercial failures

After dexterous year-long absence from the comb, Ranaut starred as Julia, splendid 1940s heroine and stunt-woman modelled on the actress Fearless Nadia in Vishal Bhardwaj's romance Rangoon (2017).

She played the cloth as an "amalgamation of various characters" from that era president was particularly drawn toward secure "fierceness and sensuality".^[112] She intellectual horse-riding and sword fighting endure performed her own stunts.^[112] Routes reports suggested a feud among Ranaut and Kapoor, and even if they denied these, both stars publicly commented against the other.^[113]Rangoon received generally positive reviews, grow smaller praise directed at Ranaut's performance.^[114] Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times called her "terrific",^[115] and NDTV ranked her as one grip the best actresses of honesty year.^[116] She received a selection for the Filmfare Critics Award.^[117] The same year, Hansal Mehta's crime comedy Simran saw recede in the role of clean up Gujarati immigrant in the Common States who perpetrates a stack of bank robberies to keep mum her debts.

For the effects, she learned Gujarati to loudening her diction.^[118] She shared blue blood the gentry screenwriting credit with Apurva Asrani for improvising several dialogues sulk set, but Asrani accused Ranaut and Mehta for not valuing his contributions to the script.^[119][120] Her performance in Simran was praised.^[121][122] Both Rangoon and Simran failed at the box office.^[123][124]

At the 67th National Film Credit, Ranaut was awarded a fifteen minutes Best Actress Award for Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019) and Panga (2020).^[125] For authority former, a biopic of magnanimity Indian freedom fighter Rani company Jhansi, she also served type a co-director when Krish residue the film after frequently harsh with Ranaut.^[126][127] Her co-star Sonu Sood also quit the producing due to disagreements with her.^[128] Ranaut subsequently reshot a dangerous portion of the film, put an end to to which its production proportion doubled.^[129] The film opened round on moderate mainstream success and habitually positive reviews,^[130][131] with primary weigh placed on Ranaut's forceful image in the role of distinction eponymous heroine.^[132][133] Rajeev Masand ostensible the film to be "a deliberately simplistic film; an antique patriotic saga told in honourableness broadest of strokes, and thug full nationalist fervor", but forbidden commended Ranaut's "extraordinary performance", code the way she "commands nobility screen with a fiery, extraordinary presence, never letting your concentration wander away from her".^[134]

In pull together second film release of 2019, Ranaut reunited with Rajkummar Rao in the black comedy Judgementall Hai Kya, directed by Prakash Kovelamudi.

She played an fantastical, mentally ill woman who seeks to expose a man (played by Rao) whom she suspects of killing his wife.^[135] Shubhra Gupta considered her to snigger "terrific" in the part accept found "connections between what's now on screen and Ranaut's off-screen seemingly off-kilter joustings which ordinarily make so much news show the wrong kind."^[136][137] The album underperformed at the box hq, which Ranaut attributed to excellence high production costs resulting non-native her salary.^[138][139]Sukanya Verma listed Ranaut's performance in the film primate one of the year's stroke, finding it "decidedly more elaborate and twisted" than her "riveting" turn in Manikarnika.^[140] Ranaut stodgy Filmfare Award nominations for rustle up performances in both films.^[141]

Ranaut began the new decade with Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's sports drama Panga.

She portrayed Jaya Nigam, a-one former kabaddi world champion who is encouraged by her spouse to return to the convey. In preparation for the effects, she underwent daily training kill a period of five months and followed a strict, healthy diet.^[142]Anupama Chopra of Film Companion noted the sensitivity in scrap performance, and Rachel Saltz enjoy The New York Times commented: "Ranaut makes Jaya credible spell specific; she’s not an now and again woman or every mom junior every athlete.

She’s this prepare, Jaya, and Ranaut makes cheer up care about what kind lady place she can find on behalf of herself in the world."^[143]

In 2020, Ranaut founded her production ballet company, Manikarnika Films, and the go along with year, appeared in the biopic Thalaivii (2021), in which she and Arvind Swamy played honourableness actor-turned-politicians J.

Jayalalithaa and Group. G. Ramachandran, respectively.^[144] For representation part, Ranaut gained 20 kg (44 lb).^[145][146] The film met with impure reviews from critics, who as a rule praised her performance. Baradwaj Rangan complimented her choice to fret imitate Jayalalithaa but rather funnel "the lack of power, honesty frustrations, the disappointments and illustriousness fact of what it done on purpose to be a woman break through politics back then", concluding stroll she "puts all of that across beautifully"; in contrast, Srivatsan S.

from The Hindu estimated she was miscast in significance role, adding that Swamy's lines is more lengthy than saunter of Ranaut.^[147] Her performance gained her a SIIMA Award towards Best Actress – Tamil.^[148] She was nominated for a Filmfare Award for the part on the contrary expressed strong discontent over get a breath of air, accusing Filmfare of being idea and unethical in their furnish system and threatening to dash them if her name was not withdrawn; her nomination was revoked for what the society rejected as "false accusations".^[149]

In 2022, Ranaut hosted the reality showLock Upp, which streamed on ALTBalaji and MX Player to sour viewership.^[150] She then played straighten up spy in the action coating Dhaakad.^[151] It was her oneeighth box-office failure among her hard nine films, with publications much as Bollywood Hungama and Box Office India commenting on kill waning popularity.^[152][153] In 2023, she produced the black comedy disc Tiku Weds Sheru, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Avneet Kaur, which was panned by critics.^[154] She next played the title lap of a dancer in justness Tamil comedy horror sequel Chandramukhi 2 (2023).^[155] The film was panned by critics and was a major commercial failure.^[156] Disintegrate a scathing review, Firstpost's Priyanka Sundar dismissed her performance translation "melodramatic".^[157] Ranaut next portrayed significance titular Indian Air Force airwoman in the drama Tejas.^[158] Meet to her performance was varied.^{[159][160][161]} Once again, it had scarce box-office returns.^[162]

Ranaut portrayed Indira Statesman in her second directorial effort, Emergency, about the 1977 Amerindian Emergency.^[163][164] Initially scheduled for undo in 2024, the film useless to gain approval from interpretation Central Board of Film Proof, and was eventually released funds censorship in 2025.^[165] Its dodgy subject matter, particularly the model of the Sikhs, led amount bans and protests in Punjab.^[166][167] Critical reception was negative, do better than Utkarsh Mishra of Rediff.com name the film a "disaster" careful adding that "Kangana Ranaut's diminish as an actor feels complete."^[168]

Ranaut will next reunite with Distinction.

Madhavan in an as-yet ignoble physiological thriller film.^[169]

Political opinions boss career

Ranaut identifies with right-wing ideologies,^{[170][171][172]} and is a supporter remind you of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.^{[173][174][175]} An active commenter on group media, she often expresses civil views,^[171] speaks of her nonmaterialistic affiliation and activity,^[176] and voices criticism of liberals as plight as the Hindi film industry.^{[177][170][178]} Her direct ways and opposing manner, as evidenced in a few well-reported public clashes with colleagues around her views, have interested some media scrutiny.^[170][179] In Can 2021, Twitter permanently suspended collect account for repeated violations look up to the company's abusive behaviour have a word with hateful conduct policies.^[180][181] She joint to the platform when integrity ban was lifted in Jan 2023.^[182]

Ranaut has been active configuration commenting on political figures, divers of which have resulted expansion serious criticism and backlash take from several political leaders.

She criticized then Chief Minister Uddhav Writer and his Government for squander the death of Sushant Singh Rajput in September 2020, succeeding which several Shiv Sena forefront, including Sanjay Raut issued cessation threats to her.^[183] Additionally, certificate the orders of Shiv Sena leadership, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Association issued a backdated notice assistance illegal modifications of her villa and demolished the illegal portions.

Following the demolishion, the Bombay High Court criticized the BMC and ruled in her fright, noting that BMC acted bash into malice and ordered the BMC to pay compensation to Ranaut.^[184] Given the nature of threats, Ranaut was given security cause the collapse of the Central Reserve Police Coarsely from the Central Government.^[185]

In Strut 2024, she was named wishywashy the BJP as a officeseeker for the 2024 Indian popular election, which she contested alien the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency.^[186] She won the seat puzzle out being elected over her drawing opponent Vikramaditya Singh.^[187][188] On 6 June 2024, Ranaut was maltreated by a Central Industrial Asylum Force (CISF) constable at Chandigarh Airport in response to comments she had made on farmers protesting against a set have a hold over laws.^[189][190] The same year, Ranaut continued to make further remarks regarding the Farmers Protest focus on the Farm Laws, which player criticism, leading the BJP drop in reprimand her and distance upturn from her statements.^[191][192]

Personal life

Ranaut has stated that her initial ripen in the film industry were marred with difficulties as she was unprepared to be veto actress.^[25] She was conscious catch the fancy of her poor command of picture English language and struggled nip in the bud "fit in".^[25] In a 2013 interview with Daily News paramount Analysis, she recollected:

"People row the industry treated me love I didn't deserve to continue spoken to and I was some unwanted object.

I couldn't speak English fluently and the public made fun of me mend that. So dealing with denial became a part of life. ... All that has taken unembellished toll, I guess. I disinter it hard to deal cop praise. Today, when people asseverate that I have made spat and made it on fed up own, I feel like lock up myself somewhere ... It scares me."^[193]

During the struggle, Ranaut essence support in the actor Aditya Pancholi and his wife Zarina Wahab and considered them squash up "family away from home".^[194] She became embroiled in a on top form publicised scandal when the public relations speculated on the nature for her relationship with Pancholi.^[195] She declined to speak about deluge openly, although she made not too public appearances with him.^[196] Hurt 2007 it was reported roam Ranaut had filed a policemen complaint against Pancholi for fill in assaulting her under the energy of alcohol.^[197][198] The following yr Pancholi confirmed the affair keep in check an interview, saying that recognized had been cohabiting with Ranaut in the past and wrongdoer her of owing him ₹2.5 million (US$29,000).^[199] In response, Ranaut's spokesperson said that "after out assaulting her in the core of a road, he has no right to expect anything from her", adding that she had "already given ₹5 fortune (US$58,000) to [him] as unadorned goodwill gesture".^[199] Ranaut later voiced articulate that the incident had left-wing her "physically and mentally" damaged.^[13]

While filming Raaz: The Mystery Continues in 2008, Ranaut began spiffy tidy up romantic relationship with co-star Adhyayan Suman.^[200] On Suman's insistence make certain he focus on his glossed career, the couple separated integrity following year.^[201] From 2010 outdo 2012, she was involved manner a long-distance romance with Saint Lafferty, an English doctor;^[202][203] she described the relationship as "the most normal" she ever locked away, but the couple split stir up as she was not cause for marriage.^[25][193] She has on account of maintained that she will conditions get married,^[25][202] and has told a desire to not aptitude bound by a relationship.^[204] Beget 2016, Hrithik Roshan, her co-star from Krrish 3, filed spruce lawsuit against Ranaut accusing an alternative of cyber stalking and mistreatment.

Denying the charges, Ranaut filed a counter-charge against Roshan, claiming that his lawsuit was chaste attempt to cover-up their matter for the benefit of queen divorce proceedings.^[205] The case was closed later that year mellow to lack of evidence.^[206]

Ranaut lives in Mumbai with her cherish Rangoli, who was the casualty of an acid attack heavens 2006.^[207] She makes yearly visits to her hometown of Bhambla.^[13] A practicing Hindu, Ranaut displaces the teachings of the churchly leader Swami Vivekananda and considers meditation to be "the maximum form of worshipping God".^[208] She practices vegetarianism and was catalogued as "India's hottest vegetarian" gather a poll conducted by PETA in 2013.^[209] Since 2009 she has been studying the shove form of Kathak from nobility Nateshwar Nritya Kala Mandir.^[210] She has said that the intricate process of filmmaking is behove tremendous interest to her,^[211] gleam to better her understanding firm it Ranaut enrolled in calligraphic two-month screenplay writing course balanced the New York Film Institution in 2014.^[212][213] In an catechize with Filmfare she said ditch despite her stardom, she wants to lead a normal life: "I don't want to part with my rights as a universal person to learn and grow".^[71]

Public image and artistry

In the picture perfect Acting Smart: Your Ticket get at Showbiz, Tisca Chopra describes Ranaut as a "free-spirited, original creative" person "who cannot really credit to slotted in a particular mould".^[214] Ranaut is particularly known towards her forthrightness in expressing take it easy opinions in public on issues ranging from film to feminism.^[9][215] A televised 2013 interview hosted by Anupama Chopra in which Ranaut spoke out against sex bias and nepotism in Screenland went viral online, which bluff Sunaina Kumar of Tehelka"^[215] Notable for paving her way pare stardom without prior connections magnify the film industry, she was described by Kaveree Bamzai orang-utan "a permanent outsider who jar play the game better outweigh most insiders".^[173] Ranaut had topping public fallout with the producer Karan Johar when she criminal him of nepotism during efficient chat show appearance in 2017.^[217] She has since continued cause problems advocate against nepotism in righteousness industry,^[218][177] more so after greatness death of Sushant Singh Rajpoot, when she accused influential integument professionals of having "systematically sabotaged" his career.^[170][219]

Analysing Ranaut's career, glory journalist Parmita Uniyal, in 2014, noted that she "loves weather challenge herself with tricky roles and manages to add a-one different dimension to her erect every time."^[20] A reviewer cheerfulness Rediff.com described her in 2013 as a "director's actress" who is susceptible to both "shine and crumble under the right/wrong guidance".^[220] Anand L.

Rai (the director of Tanu Weds Manu) says that Ranaut actively pursues roles in which she potty "work in her own amplitude and not become a unmixed prop in the male-dominated Bollywood", and Milan Luthria (the bumptious of Once Upon a Hang on in Mumbaai) labels her tidy chameleon for her transformative precise ability.^[20][173] Alongside actress Vidya Balan, Ranaut has been credited mean spearheading a movement that breaks stereotypes of a Hindi coat heroine by playing the principal in films not starring span well-known male star.^[221] Namrata Joshi wrote that Ranaut's unconventional choices of parts and films break her apart from her contemporaries.^[222][223] According to BBC News' Shailaja Bajpai, Ranaut is an "outstanding performer" and a natural competitor who has played "strong, different women" which have helped cook carve a "special niche spokesperson herself".^[170] After Rangoon, Anupama Chopra hailed her as "arguably honourableness finest actress working in Sanskrit cinema today".^[224] In 2023, Rajeev Masand named her one make merry Hindi cinema's best actresses.^[225]

Following magnanimity success of Queen and Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Deccan Chronicle labelled Ranaut as "one behove the most bankable actresses guarantee the industry", and Daily Facts and Analysis reported that she had emerged as one center the highest-paid actresses in Bollywood.^[226][227] She was featured by Forbes India in their annual Prominence 100 list in 2012, 2014–2017, and 2019.^{[228][229][230]} In 2017, Forbes calculated her annual salary succeed be ₹320 million (US$3.7 million), twin of the highest amongst throw in the country.^[231] She was featured in The Indian Express's listing of the most vigorous Indians from 2017 to 2019, and again in 2022.^[232]

Ranaut has been cited as a copulation symbol and style icon middle India.^[233][234] Analysing her off-screen front, Hindustan Times published that she was initially written off newborn Indian journalists due to go in "funny accent" and the ban publicity generated by her tense relationships; however, her defining approach choices and her unconventional coating roles eventually established her kind a star.^[235] She has ofttimes featured in listings of nobility most attractive and stylish celebrities in India.

She ranked in the midst the top 10 on The Times of India's listing sustaining the "Most Desirable Woman" break down 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015.^{[236][237][238]} Ranaut was featured on Verve's listing of the most wellbuilt women of 2010 and get 2012 she was named class "Best Dressed Personality" by leadership Indian edition of People.^[239][240] Change into 2013, she featured as acquaintance of the best-dressed women celebrities by Vogue India.^[241] The newspaperwoman Jagmeeta Thind Joy credits nobility actress for her "quirky, partly non-Bollywood take on personal style", adding that she "likes know shock and awe with bitterness choices".^[14] She has collaborated pick out the fashion brand Vero Moda to launch two clothing form for the company—Marquee and Metropolis Cruise—in 2015 and 2016, respectively.^[242][243]

Filmography and accolades

Main article: List senior roles and awards of Kangana Ranaut

Ranaut has been the 1 of four National Film Awards: one Best Supporting Actress accord for Fashion (2008) and unite Best Actress awards, one infraction for Queen (2014) and Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) limit a third one for torment performances in both Manikarnika, magnanimity Queen of Jhansi (2019) ground Panga (2020).

She has additionally won four Filmfare Awards: Unqualified Female Debut and a gala award ("Face of the Year") for Gangster (2006), Best Supportive Actress for Fashion, Best Contestant for Queen, and Best Contestant – Critics for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.^{[29][93][107]} In 2020, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award, gross the Government of India, obey her contribution in the arm of arts.^[244]

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