Kangana Ranaut: Have scripts of three international projects on my table right now

With her straight-on-your-face statements and fierce opinions, Kangana Ranaut is a holy terror for good. It didn’t take her long to establish her own feet in Bollywood. After a decade, she can now claim to be one irreplaceable actress, bankable for the most crucial characters.

With Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone stepping into Hollywood, many wondered how a versatile talent like Kangana was never offered a global project. Actually, she was offered.

However, fiercely loyal to Indian cinema and her audience, she firmly believes in serving to the Indian audience. (Also Read: Saif Ali Khan and Kangana Ranaut to come on ‘Koffee With Karan 5’. Why not Shahid Kapoor?)

“I have three scripts lying on my table right now; two of them are American and one is an international, non-Hollywood project…Asia is the market for them (foreign film studios). I am not thrilled about it because it is a great time for me here. I don’t want to go missing,” Kangana tells a leading publication.

Sure, Hollywood is a bigger platform with larger viewers. But then, it is the people, especially the niche cinemagoers who have given Kangana the identity she enjoys today.

“How do I become part of my people’s lives?  How do I become more involved and engage my audiences, who is my audience, who makes my films a huge success? This is not the time for me to disconnect with them. Also, I am not looking for an alternate career where I can shift to another country and can live there. To be honest, every community, every society, every race, they have their own role models. I cannot hope to be a role model for another country. I want to help grow what we have. It has taken us 100 long years to grow this business,”  she adds.

Kangana will be next seen in Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Rangoon’, alongside Saif Ali Khan and Shahid Kapoor. It hits the theatres on 24th February.

Ranjini Maitra

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