Kangana Ranaut slams Karan Johar for 'Hindi downmarket' remark

Chandigarh, August 2

Kangana Ranaut takes swipe at filmmaker Karan Johar yet again. She has earlier called him movie mafia and flag bearer of nepotism on Koffee With Karan. Now, Five years later, their differences seem to only grow.

In her Instagram Stories, Kangana wrote, “I don’t fight individuals, I fight mindsets. And to a large extent, I have fought this prejudice against small Hindi-speaking people.” In the story, she also attached the link to an article that talked about Karan’s autobiographical book, An Unsuitable Boy.

Karan Johar in his autobiography, An Unsuitable Boy wrote that as a kid he used to find Hindi speaking “downmarket and uncool”. He even mentioned that used to stay away from Aditya Chopra and his friends because they all used to speak in Hindi.

He wrote, “Yes, as a child, I was in the company of star kids. I knew Hrithik (Roshan), Abhishek (Bachchan), Shweta (Bachchan), Zoya (Akhtar), and Farhan (Akhtar). I was always closer to the girls, Shweta and Zoya. The boys were very bratty, especially Abhishek (he is four years younger than me) and Farhan. I never really got along with them. I never liked them. And Adi (Aditya Chopra) and gang always spoke a lot in Hindi. That was something I couldn’t bear.”

He further added, “I used to come back to my mother and tell her, ‘Mummy, they speak only in Hindi! Don’t send me to their house.’ She would say, ‘what do you mean they speak only in Hindi?’ I said they were very filmi in their talk; that they would say things like ‘Tune Kranti dekhi hai kya? Kitni acchi film hai (Have you seen Kranti? It’s such a good film).’ I found this constant talk in Hindi rather downmarket and uncool. I told my mother that I would not talk to these kids.”

The book was published in 2016 and now six years later, this particular bit from it has resurfaced online.

Meanwhile, on the work front, Kangana is working on her next movie Emergency, in which she plays Indira Gandhi. This is her second directorial after Manikarnika.