Top 10 Times When Kangana Ranaut Was At Her Feminine Best

1. On Endorsing Fairness Creams

Kangana has been one of the few actresses in the industry who has never endorsed a beauty product, and it’s not by chance but it’s a conscious choice that the actress has made. She says “fairness products and the idea of 24-hour fairness are disgusting. I am fair not because I use these products, I am a true blue Pahari, and just as there’s nothing special about being fair, there’s absolutely nothing wrong about being dark skinned. I wish the law makers of our country were stricter with this messaging”.

2. On Signing Item Numbers

Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... called the actress to his show and asked her why has she not done any item songs, and she said “that’s because I know what I say or do matters. I saw my friend’s daughter dress up and sing these songs and I realised she is just five, she has no idea what she is singing, but it is going to impact the way she views the world. I am not okay with kids growing up with false ideas”

3. On Doing A Film With The Khans

Kangana is yet to star opposite any of the Khans in the industry. When Barkha Dutt A television journalist, Barkha Dutt works as a co >> Read More... asked her when, if at all that is going to happen she said, “It’s like what I tell my father. When I was broke and wanted the money to pursue my dreams my father said I had no rights on his money if I was not going to toe the line according to him. And now, when I have made a name for myself, and I am so successful, now he wants to give me money. It’s of no use to me now. When I was new to the industry and wanted to carve the niche, none of the Khans agreed to work with me. Now I don’t need them.”

4. On Her Fallout With Hrithik Roshan Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves i >> Read More...

When during an interview for winning the national award for ‘ Queen Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, Barkha Dutt asked her about her controversial break up with boyfriend and Bollywood biggie Hrithik Roshan she said, “I don’t feel sad. There are always cupcakes to fall back on. If a woman is super successful, she is called a psychopath, if she is sexually active she is a whore. I am a self-pleaser, not a people pleaser. My success is my sweet revenge against the controversy”

5. On Being One Of The Highest Paid Actresses Of Bollywood

She was the highest paid actress in Bollywood and was asked about the wage gap to which she didn’t mince words and said, “Forget the credit; they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don’t get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It’s not so much about the money, but it’s about (being a) woman”

6. On Being A Single Woman In Bollywood

When Kangana was asked what struggles she faced in reaching to the pinnacle of success where she is right now, she said “When I started out, I was treated like a dog. People in the industry treated me like I didn’t deserve to be spoken to. So dealing with rejection became a part of my life”

7. On Doing Small Films

Kangana was asked by the reporters if she thinks the badge of being small films heroine was hard to get away from. She replied, “I started from small films and today I’m the number one actress of this country whereas other actresses, whom you may call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still the same. I have an issue with this kind of existence, so I had to change.”

8. On Being Comfortable In Being Called A Feminist

Kangana was asked what did she think about being touted as the leader of the feminist movement in Bollywood and does she think that the label would limit her to portray only a selective kind of roles. Kangana replied, “(being) feminine as an emotion, which would be compassion and kindness is seen as a weakness... We need to change that mentality”

9. On Being Ambitious

Kangana says that her zeal to work and have a diverse portfolio is not recent. “Girls are never encouraged to be somebody or do something like men are. When I was younger, my father had unrealistic expectations from my brother, (when) he would play games; he pretended to be a commander or a leader or a superhero and I would only stand in a corner, holding all those plastic machine guns for him”

10. On Her Period Blood Comment From A Former Boyfriend

Her former boyfriend, Adhyayan Suman Adhyayan Suman is a well-known Indian actor, who >> Read More... came out to claim that she practices voodoo and mixed ‘gross’ her period blood in his drinks to control him. Kangana was asked if she thinks it’s unfair and classless of his co-star to be talking about such personal things in the media. Kangana was quick to reply saying, “I don’t mind people talking about my period blood. It’s natural. Just don’t call it gross.”