Kangana Ranaut calls the film industry “crass” on her day back on Twitter, slamming the obsession with box office figures
Pathaan’s release, Kangana Ranaut tweeted that the film industry wants to “project success” of any endeavor by “flashing currency digits in your face”
Kangana Ranaut returned to Twitter on Tuesday, and the next day she tweeted that the film industry is “crass,” with the success of an art project allegedly measured by how much money it makes. Kangana’s remark comes on the eve of the release of Shah Rukh Khan’s much-anticipated film Pathaan, which is expected to break box office records on Wednesday.
Kangana wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, “Film industry is so crass and crude that whenever they want to project success of any endeavor/creation/art they throw flashing currency digits in your face as if art has no other purpose… it exposes their lowly standards and the kind of deprived lives they live.”
She also stated that artists are worshiped because cinema is not made for “major economic gains” like other industries. “Primitively, art blossomed in temples, then reached literature/theatres, and finally inside cinemas,” she wrote. It is an industry, but it is not intended for large economic gains like other billion/trillion dollar businesses, which is why artists are revered rather than industrialists or billionaires.” “So even if artists indulge in polluting the very fiber of art and culture in the nation they must do it discreetly not shamelessly…,” she continued.
Kangana’s Twitter account was reinstated on Tuesday after being suspended for two years for “repeated violations” of the platform’s hateful and abusive behavior policies. Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, she shared requests from various Twitter users pleading with him to restore her Twitter account.
Kangana has yet to have major commercial success following the success of her 2019 film Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, which grossed 92 crores at the domestic box office. She has since appeared in Panga, Thalaivii, and Dhaakad, but none of them have been box-office successes.
The actor has been working on her first solo directorial project, Emergency, since last year. She recently revealed that she has mortgaged her home to fund the film’s production. In the film, she plays former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
