Kangana Ranaut Wanted To Be The Solo And Young Lead In Saand Ki Ankh Alleges Anurag Kashyap

Kangana Ranaut has waged a war against nepotism Bollywood and no doubt her bold statements of the have irked more than a few big names in the industry including her friend Anurag Kashyap. The filmmaker like the actress made his own set of startling revelations in a recent interview.

He alleged that Kangana Ranaut was offered Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar starrer Saand Ki Aankh by Tushar Hiranandani but the actress asked the director to make it just one character instead of the two and to make the character younger. The 2019 film is based on the live Haryana's ‘shooter dadis’ Prakshi and Chandro Tomar.

Anurag told NDTV, "When Saand Ki Aankh script was pitched by Tushar to Kangana, she said the story is great but what is the need for two characters? Make them one and young and I will do it. All her films have now become about herself. She thinks probably that is how stars make films. She is such a big star but is she empowering people?" 

Apart from being a startling allegation, Kasyasp’s statement differs from what Kangana’s sister and manager Rangoli Chandel had once said about her reason for rejecting the film. It was during the time when Saand Ki Aankh was called out in an ‘ageism controversy’ that Rangoli had tweeted, “It’s heartbreaking to see how our media first killed MeToo in India now making a joke out of feminism, Vikas Bahl and the director of this movie wanted Kangana to do this film, she clearly told them to cast older woman and fight agism and sexism in Bollywood…Even today Kangana feel Ramya Krishnan and Neena Gupta ji would have been a far better option, and they have a great market value, why can’t they be mainstream actresses??” 

Kashyap had in a series of tweets tried to warn the Queen actress that she is being used and stated she isn’t person he knew her to be. He was called ‘mini Mahesh Bhatt’ in response.