Kangana Ranaut slams ‘Chacha Choudhary’ Karan Johar’s comments about wanting to ‘murder’ Anushka Sharma’s career

An old video of Karan Johar saying that he campaigned against Anushka Sharma is being widely shared on social media. The video attracted Kangana Ranaut's attention.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | April 7, 2023 10:40 AM IST

3 min read

Kangana Ranaut has been at loggerheads with Karan Johar. (Photos: Instagram/kanganaranaut and karanjohar)

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Actor Kangana Ranaut wasted no time in reacting to a video of Karan Johar saying that he wanted to ‘murder’ Anushka Sharma’s career. Kangana has been waging a one-sided public war against Karan, whom she famously described as the ‘flag-bearer of nepotism’ on his show, Koffee with Karan, and has repeatedly criticised his alleged clique mentality since then.

Earlier this week, an old video of Karan admitting that he campaigned against Anushka when she was starting out was recirculated on social media. In the interaction, from the 18th MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in 2016, Karan said, “I completely wanted to murder Anushka Sharma’s career because when Aditya Chopra showed me her picture, I was like ‘no no, you no need to sign Anushka Sharma. There was another lead actor whom I wanted Adi to sign.” Anushka, who was sitting next to him, laughed.

Reacting to this, Kangana posted the video on Instagram stories, and commented, “Iss chacha choudhary ko bas yahi ek kaam hai (this uncle only does things like this).”

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Previously, writer-editor Apurva Asrani and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri had also commented on the video. “Said in jest, I’m sure, but still a worthy point in the raging insider-outsider debate,” Apurva wrote in a tweet, sharing the video. Vivek Agnihotri, who rose to prominence last year with the controversial film The Kashmir Files, wrote in a tweet, “Someone’s only hobby is to make or break careers. If Bollywood is in gutter, it’s because of some people’s dirty ‘backroom’ politics against talented outsiders.”
https://twitter.com/Apurvasrani/status/1643816072439808002

Anushka made her acting debut with Yash Raj Films’ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, opposite Shah Rukh Khan. She went on to work with Karan Johar on the film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Her last film was 2018’s Zero, also starring Shah Rukh, and she will return with a lead role in the upcoming sports drama Chakda ‘Xpress.

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