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Success is the best revenge, says Kangana Ranaut as she hits back at her critics

Success is the best revenge, says Kangana Ranaut as she hits back at her critics

In a long statement in reference to her very messy spat with Hrithik, Kangana tells it like it is
04 May, 2016

Kangana Ranaut has finally hit back at her critics, who have been having a field day with the accusations levelled against her by alleged former beau Hritik Roshan and an ex-flame.

In a nearly half-hour interview with Barkha Dutt on NDTV, she minced no words in explaining why she doesn't care about the criticism she has received of late.

1) On getting revenge

"I feel success is the best revenge. And I always feel women should answer back with their sarcasm or success. That really kills."

2) On self-pleasing versus people-pleasing

"I don't deliberately try to offend people, but I somehow ended up being this serial offender. have moments of doubt and despair when i look at myself and try and reconsider my ideologies and attitude, and seek the little social skill that I miss and keep offending people."

"To be honest, if there is something that i like, I'm not aware of it. I'm very happy with myself. there are two kinds of people, a people pleaser and self pleaser, and I definitely fall into the category of self pleasers. I care about my own priorities and my own life more than others' expectation of me is."

"Sometimes, i don't wait for people to give me my due. i get up and get it myself. that sometimes leads to fights and conflicts. I don't mind being a fighter. I get to live on my life in my terms."

3) On period shaming

"It doesn't upset me. It doesn't upset me when people call me names and talk about their period blood. But just don't call it gross, because there's nothing gross about period blood. It's my ability to reproduce. There's nothing gross about it, and even to introduce the idea of it being gross, it gives women a complex, the same women who will lead our country in the future. If there's nothing gross about men's bodily fluids, there's nothing mysterious or evil about a woman's bodily fluids either."

4) On being called crazy

"I'm an artist and have really closely researched people who deal with mental illness, and I don't find anything degrading about fighting with a mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Certain sections of media have been trying to suggest that you can humiliate a woman by saying she has a mental illness. It won't work. I've played a schizophrenic, I've played bipolar patient on screen, I don't see anything humiliating when they call me a psychopath."

5) On being called all kinds of names

"We as women have been defending ourselves for way too long. These are 1000-year old weapons used against women. If a woman is crazily successful, she becomes a psychopath. If she's sexually active, then she becomes a whore. So all of this is being used and it's really outdated."

Comments

Noshin May 04, 2016 05:23pm
Kangna has always been an inspiration for doomed section of society!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Noshin May 04, 2016 05:24pm
lucky enough to collect her third National filmfare award!!!!!!!!!!!!
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aliya May 04, 2016 05:25pm
candid response from Kangna ever since!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Neeraj May 04, 2016 05:27pm
Well said Kangna! You are talented, intelligent and brave!
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aliya May 04, 2016 05:28pm
I have watched all her interviews, the way she quiets the critics has ever been so impressive and convenient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Iamnotjoking May 04, 2016 07:23pm
A very talented actress,smart,and understand the today's world.Wish you every sucess and wonderful life always . Be happy.
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Shail May 04, 2016 08:15pm
We are lucky to have an actress so talented in Bollywood. She sparkles the screen with her acting.
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Noshin May 04, 2016 08:34pm
I never forget to here any single public argument from her, every time she has beaten all odds!!!!!!!!!
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Sagittarius May 04, 2016 08:55pm
If she was pakistani actress, she would have said "Democracy is best revenge". LOL
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Thoroughthinker May 04, 2016 09:43pm
Truth, beauty and goodness each with respective exponential add to make the ultimate beauty. But, all three seldom exist simultaneously. Now, we can very well rate her ultimate accolades.
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Danish May 04, 2016 11:53pm
Impressive answers by kangana. Cruel world for no one , just take of self.
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Farhan May 05, 2016 05:35am
Enjoying the success and forgiving the critics is best way to make life peaceful. Any shread of revenge puts us at conflicts.
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sanketh May 05, 2016 09:25am
@aliya dont u think lil bit arrogant?
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Ajay Vikram Singh May 07, 2016 01:31pm
Kangna is only 2nd actor ever to win 3 national awards. First was Shabana Aazmi. Shahrukh Khan never won any national award. That speaks a lot about her Talent. Moreover, she has done all that by being just herself.
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