81 Facts About Kangana Ranaut

Kangna Amardeep Ranaut is an Indian actress and filmmaker who works primarily in Hindi films.

At the age of sixteen, Kangana Ranaut briefly took up modelling before being trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur.

Kangana Ranaut made her film debut in the 2006 thriller Gangster, for which she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, and received praise for portraying emotionally intense characters in the dramas Woh Lamhe.

Kangana Ranaut appeared in the commercially successful films Raaz: The Mystery Continues and Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai but was criticised for being typecast in neurotic roles.

Kangana Ranaut went on to win two consecutive National Film Awards for Best Actress for playing an abandoned bride in the comedy-drama Queen and a dual role in the comedy sequel Tanu Weds Manu Returns, which was the biggest-earning female-led Hindi film at the time.

In 2020, Kangana Ranaut launched her own production company, Manikarnika Films, where she works as a director and a producer.

Kangana Ranaut has been credited in the media as being one of the best-dressed celebrities, and is known to be outspoken.

Kangna Amardeep Kangana Ranaut was born on 23 March 1987 at Bhambla, a small town in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, into a Rajput family.

Kangana Ranaut's mother, Asha Ranaut, is a school teacher, and her father, Amardeep Ranaut, is a businessman.

Kangana Ranaut has an elder sister, Rangoli Chandel, who as of 2014 works as her manager, and a younger brother, Akshat.

Kangana Ranaut's great-grandfather, Sarju Singh Ranaut, was a Member of the Legislative Assembly and her grandfather was an officer for the Indian Administrative Service.

Kangana Ranaut grew up in a joint family at their ancestral haveli in Bhambla, and described her childhood as "simple and happy".

Kangana Ranaut initially intended to become a doctor on the insistence of her parents.

However, a failed unit test in chemistry during her twelfth grade led Kangana Ranaut to reconsider her career prospects and despite preparing for the All India Pre Medical Test, she did not turn up for the exam.

In Delhi, Kangana Ranaut was unsure which career to choose; the Elite Modelling Agency were impressed by her looks and suggested that she model for them.

Kangana Ranaut took on a few modelling assignments, but generally disliked the career as she found "no scope for creativity".

Kangana Ranaut decided to shift focus towards acting and joined the Asmita Theatre Group, where she trained under the theatre director Arvind Gaur.

Kangana Ranaut participated in Gaur's theatre workshop at the India Habitat Centre, acting in several of his plays, including the Girish Karnad-scripted Taledanda.

Kangana Ranaut struggled with her meager earnings during this period, eating only "bread and aachar ".

Kangana Ranaut's relatives were unhappy with her decision to enter the film-making industry, and they did not correspond with her for several years.

In 2004, the producers Ramesh Sharma and Pahlaj Nilani announced that Kangana Ranaut would make her film debut with the Deepak Shivdasani-directed I Love You Boss.

However, Singh was later unavailable to do the film and Kangana Ranaut was contracted as a replacement for Gangster, opting out of I Love You Boss.

Kangana Ranaut was cast in the central role of Simran, an alcoholic woman caught in a romantic triangle between a notorious gangster and a sympathetic friend.

Kangana Ranaut was only seventeen while filming and said that she "had difficulty first in understanding and then unwinding from the character", describing her craft as "raw and immature".

Kangana Ranaut won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, along with various other debut awards.

Kangana Ranaut next portrayed a village girl in Dhaam Dhoom, a Tamil romantic thriller, opposite Jayam Ravi.

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express noted that Kangana Ranaut was becoming stereotyped in roles that required her to be "hysterical", adding that she needed a "radical change of image".

Kangana Ranaut said that she felt cheated after watching the film, as her role turned out much smaller than what she initially signed up for.

Kangana Ranaut then portrayed fictional film actress Rehana in the Milan Luthria-directed gangster film Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai.

Kangana Ranaut said that her character was "a mix" of the actress Madhubala and the gangster Haji Mastan's wife and that to prepare she observed the work of the actresses Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi.

Kaveree Bamzai of India Today argued that Kangana Ranaut had "never looked lovelier and been more playful", and Mid-Day Sarita Tanwar found her "totally convincing" in the part.

Kangana Ranaut played Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi, a foul-mouthed, free-spirited and rebellious university student from Kanpur who enters an arranged marriage with Manu, a London-based Indian doctor.

Kangana Ranaut followed the success of Tanu Weds Manu by starring in a series of brief, glamorous roles in four other films of 2011: Game, Double Dhamaal, Rascals and Miley Naa Miley Hum.

Kangana Ranaut achieved success later in 2013 for her portrayal of Kaya, a shapeshifting mutant in Rakesh Roshan's superhero film Krrish 3, alongside Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Vivek Oberoi.

Kangana Ranaut initially declined the offer, given her disappointment with her role in Kites, which Rakesh Roshan produced.

Kangana Ranaut even manages to make you feel her pain.

Kangana Ranaut later played the eponymous lead in the musical drama Rajjo, a critical and commercial failure.

In 2014, Kangana Ranaut reinforced her status as a leading actress of Hindi cinema when she featured in the coming-of-age dramedy Queen; she co-wrote the dialogues with Anvita Dutt Guptan.

Kangana Ranaut played Rani, a naive girl who embarks on her honeymoon alone after her fiance calls off their wedding.

Kangana Ranaut, who describes herself as "independent and confident", reflected that the role was one of the toughest she had played, as the character's personality traits contrasted with her own.

The film and Kangana Ranaut's performance received unanimous acclaim from critics.

Kangana Ranaut followed this success by playing an aggressive politician in the black comedy Revolver Rani and a medical intern in the political drama Ungli.

The film received positive reviews from critics and Kangana Ranaut's performance was considered its prime asset.

Kangana Ranaut won a Filmfare Critics Award and a second consecutive National Film Award for Best Actress, and received an additional Best Actress nomination at Filmfare.

Also in 2015, Kangana Ranaut appeared in the romantic comedies I Love New Year and Nikkhil Advani's Katti Batti, both of which failed at the box office.

Kangana Ranaut played the part as an "amalgamation of many characters" from that era and was particularly drawn toward its "fierceness and sensuality".

Kangana Ranaut learned horse-riding and sword fighting and performed her own stunts.

Kangana Ranaut received a nomination for the Filmfare Critics Award.

Kangana Ranaut shared the screenwriting credit with Apurva Asrani for improvising several dialogues on set, but Asrani accused Ranaut and Mehta for not valuing his contributions to the script.

At the 67th National Film Awards, Kangana Ranaut was awarded a fourth Best Actress Award for Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi and Panga.

Kangana Ranaut played an eccentric, mentally ill woman who seeks to expose a man whom she suspects of killing his wife.

Kangana Ranaut received Filmfare Award nominations for her performances in both films.

Kangana Ranaut began the new decade with Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's sports drama Panga.

Kangana Ranaut portrayed Jaya Nigam, a former kabaddi world champion who is encouraged by her husband to return to the sport.

She's this one, Jaya, and Kangana Ranaut makes you care about what kind of place she can find for herself in the world.

In 2020, Ranaut founded her production company, Manikarnika Films, and the next year, appeared in the biopic Thalaivii, in which she and Arvind Swamy played the actor-turned-politicians J Jayalalithaa and M G Ramachandran, respectively.

In 2022, Kangana Ranaut hosted the reality show Lock Upp, which streamed on ALTBalaji and MX Player to strong viewership.

Kangana Ranaut then played a spy in the action film Dhaakad.

Kangana Ranaut will produce the black comedy film Tiku Weds Sheru, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Avneet Kaur.

Kangana Ranaut has stated that her initial years in the film industry were marred with difficulties as she was unprepared to be an actress.

Kangana Ranaut was conscious of her poor command of the English language and struggled to "fit in".

Kangana Ranaut became embroiled in a well publicised scandal when the media speculated on the nature of her relationship with Pancholi.

Kangana Ranaut declined to speak about it openly, although she made several public appearances with him.

In 2007 it was reported that Kangana Ranaut had filed a police complaint against Pancholi for physically assaulting her under the influence of alcohol.

Kangana Ranaut later said that the incident had left her "physically and mentally" damaged.

Kangana Ranaut has since maintained that she will never get married, and has expressed a desire to not be bound by a relationship.

In 2016, Hrithik Roshan, her co-star from Krrish 3, filed a lawsuit against Kangana Ranaut accusing her of cyber stalking and harassment.

Kangana Ranaut makes yearly visits to her hometown of Bhambla.

Kangana Ranaut has said that the technical process of filmmaking is of tremendous interest to her, and to better her understanding of it Ranaut enrolled in a two-month screenplay writing course at the New York Film Academy in 2014.

Kangana Ranaut is particularly known for her forthrightness in expressing her opinions in public on issues ranging from film to feminism.

Kangana Ranaut had a public fallout with the filmmaker Karan Johar when she accused him of nepotism during a chat show appearance in 2017.

Kangana Ranaut has since continued to advocate against nepotism in the industry, more so after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, when she accused influential film professionals of having "systematically sabotaged" his career.

Kangana Ranaut identifies with right-wing ideologies, and is a supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kangana Ranaut returned to the platform when the ban was lifted in January 2023.

Anand L Rai says that Ranaut actively pursues roles in which she can "work in her own space and not become a mere prop in the male-dominated Bollywood", and Milan Luthria labels her a chameleon for her transformative acting ability.

Alongside actress Vidya Balan, Kangana Ranaut has been credited for spearheading a movement that breaks stereotypes of a Hindi film heroine by playing the protagonist in films not starring a well-known male star.

Kangana Ranaut was featured in The Indian Express listing of the most powerful Indians from 2017 to 2019, and again in 2022.

Kangana Ranaut has frequently featured in listings of the most attractive and stylish celebrities in India.

Kangana Ranaut ranked among the top 10 on The Times of India listing of the "Most Desirable Woman" in 2010,2011,2013 and 2015.

Kangana Ranaut was featured on Verve listing of the most powerful women of 2010 and in 2012 she was named the "Best Dressed Personality" by the Indian edition of People.

Kangana Ranaut has been the recipient of four National Film Awards: one Best Supporting Actress award for Fashion and three Best Actress awards, one each for Queen and Tanu Weds Manu Returns and a third one for her performances in both Manikarnika, the Queen of Jhansi and Panga.