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Who is Kangana Ranaut?

Kangana Ranaut is an Indian film actress, known for her versatility and portrayal of strong female-centric movies. She has received four National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards and in 2020, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian award.
 
Ranaut has been featured six times in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list.

Kangana Ranaut's background

Hailing from Himachal Pradesh, Ranaut moved to Delhi at the age of sixteen and took up modelling for a short period of time. She decided to shift focus towards acting and joined the theatre, where she trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur. Following a positive reaction from theatre audiences, she relocated to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood and enrolled herself for a four-month acting course.
 
In 2004, she auditioned for the lead role in the romantic thriller Gangster, directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Mahesh Bhatt. The movie was released in 2006 with a lot of critical and commercial success. Between 2006 and 2009, the 35-year-old had many films, including Fashion which won her first National Film Award for playing a supermodel coping with substance abuse.
 
In 2011, she was cast in Anand L Rai's Tanu Weds Manu, a romantic comedy opposite R Madhavan, a game-changer in her own words as she was typecast for playing neurotic characters.
 
The actress established herself in 2014 when she featured in Queen. The film received unanimous acclaim from critics and was a major box office hit. She received both the Filmfare Award and the National Film Award for Best Actress for it.
 
In 2017, she was starred in Vishal Bhardwaj's Rangoon, and Hansal Mehta's Simran, both of which failed to garner commercial success.
 
In recent times, the actress Ranaut has been awarded her fourth Best Actress Award for Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, and Panga, released in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
 
In 2021, she appeared in the biopic Thalaivii, in which she and Arvind Swamy played the actor-turned-politicians J. Jayalalithaa and M. G. Ramachandran.
 

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The actor identifies with the right-wing and is a supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She is active on Twitter and often expresses her political views, religious affiliation and activities, and voices criticism of liberals.
 
Her confrontational manner, as evidenced in several well-reported public clashes with colleagues around her views, has attracted some media scrutiny.
 
In 2020, a Bollywood casting director filed a plea against Ranaut for defaming Bollywood, portraying people working in it in a bad light with claims of nepotism, drug addiction, communal bias, attempting to create a rift between artistes of different communities, insulting religions on social media and through public statements. Another FIR was filed by a city-based lawyer for allegedly posting a "malicious" tweet against the judiciary. Later, Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel moved the Bombay High Court seeking to quash the FIRs filed against them.
 
In May 2021, Twitter suspended Ranaut's account for repeated violations of rules, specifically its "Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behaviour policy.
 
Following her Padma Shri honour, she at an event said the independence India obtained in 1947 was "bheek" (alms) and that the country truly became free in 2014, in reference to the BJP coming to power at the Centre under Narendra Modi.
 
The statement was strongly condemned and various organisations demanded the revocation of her civilian award.

Latest Updates on Kangana Ranaut

Ever since Musk took over Twitter, the internet was divided- while many supported his buyout deal, speculating more inclusion and free speech, others sound caution

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 11:51 PM IST

Javed Akhtar (76) had filed the complaint in court in November 2020, claiming that Ranaut had made defamatory statements against him in a television interview, which allegedly damaged his reputation.

Updated On: 28 Jun 2022 | 3:42 PM IST

Ranaut also condemned death threats against Sharma and urged people to take the legal route if they wanted her to be held responsible for the comments she made during a TV debate nearly 10 days ago.

Updated On: 07 Jun 2022 | 8:26 PM IST

Kangana Ranaut's action-packed 'Dhaakad' witnessed a slow start at the box office.

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 8:56 PM IST

The court also refused to transfer her counter- complaint against Javed Akhtar, filed before the Andheri court, elsewhere

Updated On: 09 Mar 2022 | 5:51 PM IST

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking censorship of actress Kangana Ranaut's all future statements on social media

Updated On: 21 Jan 2022 | 8:36 PM IST

The actor arrived at the Khar police station around 11 am and left in the afternoon, an official said

Updated On: 23 Dec 2021 | 10:38 PM IST

Ranaut was supposed to appear before the Mumbai police at Khar police station on Wednesday in connection with the investigation of FIR filed against her for her Instagram post

Updated On: 22 Dec 2021 | 7:13 AM IST

The city police told Bombay High Court that they will not arrest actor Kangana Ranaut till January 25, 2022 over her social media post that allegedly linked farmers' protests to a separatist group.

Updated On: 13 Dec 2021 | 1:50 PM IST

Ranaut was returning from Himachal Pradesh when this incident took place

Updated On: 03 Dec 2021 | 6:26 PM IST

Actor Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday said that she has filed an FIR after allegedly receiving threats over her posts on farmers protests.

Updated On: 30 Nov 2021 | 5:58 PM IST

Delhi Assembly's peace and harmony committee has summoned Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut over her alleged hateful posts on social media, panel chairperson Raghav Chadha said on Thursday.

Updated On: 25 Nov 2021 | 1:32 PM IST

The FIR was lodged at the suburban Khar police station a day after the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) submitted a complaint against the actor

Updated On: 23 Nov 2021 | 7:50 PM IST

DSGMC wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him that the Padma Shri conferred on actor Kangana Ranaut be withdrawn

Updated On: 21 Nov 2021 | 8:48 PM IST

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal has written to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding withdrawal of Kangana Ranaut's Padma Shri award and registration of an FIR against the actress on sedition charges.

Updated On: 15 Nov 2021 | 7:11 AM IST

Kangana Ranaut asked which war took place in 1947 and said she would return her Padma Shri and apologise too if anyone could answer her question

Updated On: 13 Nov 2021 | 3:12 PM IST

The editorial in Sena's mouthpiece 'Saamana' said the country will never tolerate such insult to Independence which was attained through blood, sweat, tears and the sacrifice made by countless Indians

Updated On: 13 Nov 2021 | 1:45 PM IST

Taking a dig, NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said the actor is talking too much after an excess dose of "Malana cream", a type of hashish that draws its name from Malana valley in Himachal Pradesh

Updated On: 12 Nov 2021 | 7:44 PM IST

BJP MP Varun Gandhi took a swipe at film actor Kangana Ranaut on Thursday for her reported remarks that India received freedom in 2014 and what it got in 1947 was "alms"

Updated On: 11 Nov 2021 | 1:50 PM IST

The 67th National Awards were delayed since last year due to the pandemic.

Updated On: 25 Oct 2021 | 3:22 PM IST