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Kangana Ranaut just won her 3rd National Award, and has been in the news for her alleged relationship with Hrithik Roshan and then when ex- beau, Adhyayen Suman opened up about her. But that leaves the sassy beauty undaunted.
In a recent interview with Barkha Dutt, Kangana opened up about the whole issue:
Here’s what she had to say on the subject during the interview
As far as name-calling is concerned, we as women have been defending ourselves for way too long. These are thousand-year weapons that are still used against women. When they’re jealous of a woman’s success, the first thing she becomes is a daayan [witch]. If she’s crazily successful, she becomes a psychopath. If she’s sexually active, she becomes a whore. All of this is being used, and it’s really outdated.
It doesn’t upset me, because I’m an artist and I’ve closely researched people who’ve dealt with mental illnesses, and I don’t find anything upsetting, gross, or degrading about fighting with a mental illness, which a certain portion of the media is trying to suggest – to humiliate a woman, you can use mental illness. It won’t work.
I have played a schizophrenic, I’ve played a bipolar patient on screen… and I don’t see anything humiliating when they call me a psychopath, a bitch, or a whore. I’ve also played a whore on screen, and my close interaction with prostitutes has allowed me to be extremely empathetic to them. So it doesn’t work on me.
Witches – I love Shakespeare, and like any other artist, I’m also smitten by witches, or fairies, or demons, or Gods, or mysticism, or romanticism. It doesn’t scare me. How would any of us hope to write a Harry Potter or be a Shakespeare if we instill so much fear and xenophobia in our children’s heads? We need to be a bit more open about anybody’s religious practices.
Kangana Ranaut’s interview raises a very important question. When in doubt, why is the woman’s character judged first? Why did #CharacterlessKangana trend on Twitter?
Now we are not speaking out in support of Kangana Ranaut, but she sure as hell knows how to silence her haters.
After all, she’s not the Queen for no reason.
News Source:NDTV
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