1/21/2012

The Career Path Kangana Ranat Took

By Joe Dunne


When filmmaker Anurag Basu spotted the 18-yr old Kangana Ranaut with her unusually curly hair in a caf (Mumbai), he would barely have thought that she would be a great actress in the Hindi movie industry. The actress had previously been a model in Delhi and later started working with a group of theatre actors. Her rise to stardom started when she was selected by Anurag Basu for his film Gangster in the lead role.

She got rave comments for her acting in her debut, including bagging a Filmfare Award for the Best Debutante. She has been bombarded by movie offers from then on. She accepted Woh Lamhe as her second film and also acted in Life In A Metro by Anurag Basu, a well known movie in which her performance received good comments. Her popularity grew with the commercial success of Tanu weds Manu, Fashion and Raaz- the Mystery Continues and she was known to be a dependable actress.

She has acted in 12 films in a span of 5 years in Bollywood and has accepted difficult roles. In Fashion, Woh Lamhe and Gangster she enacted the role of a troubled mind where as in the film Tanu Weds Manu her character was more of an adamant type. In Game, she portrayed the role of a police officer in Britain. And forthcoming films will feature her in even more varied roles as a happy-go-lucky New Yorker in 'Happy New Year', in a tough role in the film, directed by Priyadarsan 'Tez' and a doctor in Ram Gopal Varma's 'Department'.

For the people in Bollywood, she is a hard worker and a dependable actress. Mani Shankar has said that she rehearses several times before the shooting starts. Anand L Rai has said she shows enthusiasm for her work. Both of them have worked together in the film Tanu Weds Manu. Trade analyst Amod Mehra says she has matured as an actress and the transformation can be observed in her on screen performances while portraying different kinds of roles. The success of the movie Tanu Weds Manu has helped her boost her star value in the Hindi movie industry.

As a celebrity, a life devoid of controversies can not be imagined and Kangana had hers too. She once attended a party hosted by Salman Khan in Bangkok uninvited and was heard saying that she was constantly trying to develop friction between Amisha Patel, who is a good friend of the Dutt family, so that she can get closer to them. Of late, she is reported to have agreed to put on bikini for the upcoming flick Rascals directed by David Dhawan. But she refused the rumors saying that the director has never demanded to put on a bikini in the film.




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