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Actor-director and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut is currently busy promoting her upcoming film Emergency. The political drama is finally set to release on the big screen after struggling through months of controversy regarding its censor certificate and allegations of misrepresenting the Sikh community. Recently, in an interview with Times Now, Kangana, who is essaying the role of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, opened up about her encounter in the Parliament with India’s granddaughter, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi.
Kangana was asked about her previous statements about meeting Priyanka, where she had mentioned inviting her to watch the film. The actor said, “I just mentioned that in the passing. Since it’s such a big matter of discussion, I should go on record with this with a certain precision. She is a significant figure in the parliament and a woman, so I must be very precise.”
Elaborating the encounter, she shared, “She is very gracious, I just say, definitely more than her brother (Rahul Gandhi). When we were at the Parliament, she was walking and I heard somebody in a soft voice saying, ‘Oh My God, look at those beautiful hair and how lovely her dress is’. I looked back and there I saw Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi. I was pleasantly surprised because she was very charming, welcoming and had a smile on her face. For a moment, I thought that most people in the Parliament engaged with me in the capacity of being an actor.”
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“I smiled back at her and said, ‘Thankyou’. She herself is a very nice, impressive and tall woman. She asked how Parliament is treating me and I told her that it’s quite interesting and very different from what I am used to. I took the opportunity of telling her ‘I have made a film on your grandmother Mrs. Gandhi’. She was taken aback a little bit. I said ‘It’s called Emergency and maybe you want to see it’. She has quite the presence of mind and told me that she can give me facts about Emergency that I might not know,” Kangana added.
She continued, “I asked her to give me a chance to let me show her the film and let’s see what she thinks about it. She even mentioned the book of Katherine Frank for more authentic information about it. I took that opportunity to clarify with her that I have taken most of my parts from Pupul Jayakar’s autobiography which your father Rajiv Gandhi ji launched. I requested her to give it a chance, ‘Maybe you will like it’. She smiled back and said ‘Hmm’. This was our lovely conversation in the Parliament, I remember it fondly. She is quite courteous unlike her brother who just smirked at me, he doesn’t have much etiquette. I still invited him to see the film.”
Produced by Manikarnika Films, Emergency stars Kangana Ranaut as the late Indira Gandhi. It will show the 21 months of the Emergency imposed in 1975 by her. The film is scheduled to hit the theatres on January 17. It also features Anupam Kher as Jayaprakash Narayan, Shreyas Talpade as young Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Milind Soman as Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Mahima Choudhary as Pupul Jayakar, and the late Satish Kaushik as Jagjivan Ram.
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