Kangana Ranaut defends Indian joint families amid criticism over Mrs row; says, “‘Bollywood love stories distorted marriages”

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut often stays in the limelight due to her bold statements. Apart from acting, her social media posts also make headlines. Recently, Kangana shared three stories on Instagram, which are being linked to the film Mrs. starring Sanya Malhotra. Kangana’s stories are going viral on social media.

The film Mrs., starring Sanya Malhotra, received mixed reactions from the audience, critics, and social media users. Some described it as a film that highlights the plight of women, while others called it a one-sided story. Amidst all this, Kangana Ranaut has also shared her opinion on similar issues without directly naming anyone.

Kangana Ranaut shares a long note on Indian joint families

Kangana Ranaut shared 3 notes on Instagram stories. In her first story, she writes, “Growing up, I never saw a woman who didn’t command her house, ordered everyone when to eat when to sleep and when to go out, asked her husband about every penny that he spent and he obligated, only conflicts were his boy’s outings and frequent drinking evenings with friends, whenever Papa wanted to eat out with us she scolded us all because cooking for us was her joy this way she could control many things including the hygiene/the nutrition of the food, elderly folks worked as nannies to her kids and emotional support system. Women of the house dadi, mumma, and chachi are our ultimate queens and we hope to be like them, of course, there can be cases of devaluing women but let’s stop generalising Indian joint families and demonising elderly people, also let’s stop comparing women of the house with paid labour the joy of building a home and raising kids with forced labour.”

Kangana continues by, “Please understand marriages are not for attention-seeking or validation; it is for the best interest of those who are vulnerable. It is essentially for the elderly and the newborns, both are helpless, that is what Shashtras say, our parents did everything for us and their elders but never questioned anything, they simply did. Too many Bollywood love stories have distorted the ideas of marriage. Marriage should be how it has always been in this country; it always had a purpose and the purpose was Dharma, which essentially means duty. That’s it, do your duty and move on, life is too short and fast; if you try to get too much validation or footage, you will end up alone with your therapist.”

In her final instal note, she writes, “Shashtras says there is no joy in another human being, there is no joy in success, wealth, marriage/in being single or in any other worldly pleasure, they never said these things can satisfy a human being. True joy lies in being united with paramaatma, if you seek joy look for it in the right place. Rest everywhere else; do your duty don’t try to extract joy, trust me it’s not even there but by limited perception let’s not dismantle social institutions like marriages, our biggest strengths our joint families, let’s not endorse divorces, let’s not encourage younger generations to abandon older parents, or not have babies. We as a nation must be rooted in our ancient wisdom to be able to reach our future goals.”

On the work front, Kangana was last seen in her directorial film Emergency.

Mrs is a remake of the hit Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen. Directed by Arati Kadav, the film also stars Kanwaljit Singh, Nishant Dahiya, Aparna Ghoshal, Nitya Moyal, Viraj Mundkar and Varun Badola, among others.

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