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Kangana Ranaut: ‘Film will be a slap to those who think this’
Updated On: 30 August, 2024 07:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
Amid speculation that Kangana has projected Gandhi in a negative light in Emergency, actor discusses portraying her as a mother and someone who loved her country
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Kangana Ranaut
Emergency could well be among Kangana Ranaut’s definitive films. It not only sees her wield the directorial baton after she co-directed Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019), but also holds the potential to be her most memorable role. What made her tell the story of late Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi? Was it the allure of essaying one of the most formidable figures in Indian politics? Or the desire to decode the darkest chapter of Gandhi’s political career?
The actor-director says, “I didn’t begin with the intention of making a movie on it. Since I am a socially and politically-aware person, I started reading about the Emergency. Apart from Coomi Kapoor’s book [The Emergency: A Personal History], I read Mrs Gandhi’s autobiography. Her guru Jiddu Krishnamurti had told her to stop the Emergency and she told him, ‘I feel I’m riding a beast, which I loved riding initially, but now I can’t get off it.’ This gave me an insight into somebody who had a conscience. Mrs Gandhi’s life was such a beautiful Shakespearean tragedy. There is a throne, a person destined to be the queen, her opponents, and her internal battle with her conscience.”
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