Overview

• In a Hauterrfly interview republished August 14–15, Kangana Ranaut called out male co-stars for unprofessional habits such as tardiness, belittling heroines, sidelining women and providing inferior vanity vans.
• She said her refusal to tolerate on-set disrespect led to multiple legal cases and professional setbacks that other actresses accepted without complaint.
• Addressing claims that she pursues married men, she argued married co-stars often hit on her and that society unfairly blames ambitious women for men’s advances.
• Recounting her early MeToo-era statements, she described being summoned for a casting couch and characterized Bollywood as exploitative and unkind to outsiders.
• Citing the box-office successes of Tanu Weds Manu 2 and Manikarnika, she said she raised her fees and faced warnings from producers that heroines who demanded high pay would be “finished.”