Controversy and Kangana Ranaut often go hand-in-hand. The Bollywood star made her political debut recently as she joined the Bhartiya Janata Party. Hours after Kangana's induction to the party was announced, Congress leader Supriya Shrikent's Instagram shared a post featuring the actress with a objectionable.
The post was pulled down after many deemed it as inappropriate and mysogynist. Later Shrikent shared a video message on social media that her account was accessed by someone else and the post was not shared by her.
Kangana too reacted to Shrikent's post by stating, "We must free our daughters from the shackles of prejudices, we must rise above the curiosity about their body parts and above all we must refrain from using sex workers challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur… every woman deserves her dignity…"
Kangana, however, has not been new controversies. In the recent years, the actress has created headlines with her controversial remarks on social media as well as interviews. Here's a look at the top 7 controveries of Kangana Ranaut.
While appearing in one of the episodes of Koffee with Karan, Kangana termed Karan Johar, the host of the chat show and noted Indian fimmaker as "flag bearer of nepotism", which sparked a huge debate in the entirety of Bollywood.
At a news summit in 2021, Kangana said, "The freedom we got in 1947 was a 'bheek' (alms), the citizens of India got real freedom in 2014." While Kangana's reference to PM Modi's tenure was evident, she also was criticised for dismissing the efforts of several freedom fighters.
The same year,an FIR was filed against Kangana for allegedly spreading hate propaganda and inciting communal violence in West Bengal. The complaint stated that the actor had maligned the image of West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Her remarks led to suspension of her X (then Twitter) account for provoking anger and violence. The account was restored only two years later.
In 2020, Kangana called actress-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar 'a soft porn star' while speaking to a news channel. Urmila was back then a Congress Party leader and had contested elections during the 2019 polls. Kangana made the statement against Urmila, then a Congress leader, during a TV interview.
This was perhaps the ugliest. Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan slapped a legal case against Kangana after she called him a 'silly ex'. Kangana Ranaut had claimed that the two had an affair while working for Krrish 3 which Roshan denied. Several leaked emails from both sides followed and they both gave multiple interviews to prove their point of the story to various media channels.
In 2022, Kangana reportedly threatened leading film magazine for persistently nominating and inviting the actress for her film Thalaivii. She took to her Instagram story and wrote, "I've banned unethical, corrupt and totally unfair practices like @filmfare since 2014, but since I have been getting many calls from them for attending their award function this year as they want to give me award for Thalaivii... I am shocked to know that they are still nominating me."