Kangana Ranaut is a top
Bollywood actress
Two top Bollywood stars have sparred over
claims of "nepotism" in the industry.
Kangana Ranaut recently said that filmmaker
Karan Johar was fit to play the character of a "stereotypical Bollywood
biggie" in her biopic.
She described the character as being
"very snooty", and a "flag bearer of nepotism and the movie
mafia".
Johar responded on Saturday, saying that if
she was so terrorised by the industry, she should "leave it".
The director, who was speaking at the LSE
India Forum in London, added that he was "done with Kangana playing the
woman and victim card".
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Ranaut, who came to Bollywood from a small
town in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, has often said that some
filmmakers were unwelcoming towards "outsiders" like her.
"In my biopic, if ever it's made,
you'll play that stereotypical Bollywood biggie, who is like you know...very
snooty and completely intolerant towards outsiders," she told Johar on his
talk show last month.
The
director on Monday said Ranaut's assessment was wrong.
"You [Ranaut] cannot be this
victim at every given point of time who has a sad story to tell about how
you've been terrorised by the bad film industry. Leave it," he told NDTV.
Bolllywood
is one of the biggest movie industries in the world, but critics say that
getting a break into films is extremely difficult.
Source:
BBC News India
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