Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has taken a dig at Karan Johar after an old clip resurfaced on social media in which the filmmaker is caught saying that he wanted to sabotage actress Anushka Sharma’s career after seeing her photo for the first time.
Sharing the clip on her Instagram Stories late on Thursday, the Manikarnika actress wrote, “Iss chacha choudhary ko bas yahi ek kaam hai (This gentleman wants to do just this).”
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In the video, which is from the 18th MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in 2016, Karan was on stage with Anushka for an interactive session on their film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. “I completely wanted to murder Anushka Sharma’s career because when Aditya Chopra showed me her picture, I was like ‘no no, you don’t need to sign Anushka Sharma.’ There was another lead actor whom I wanted Adi to sign,” he said on that occasion.
The producer-director also admitted that after seeing the actress’s performance in her second film Band Baaja Baaraat, he felt he owed her an apology as well as a compliment.
Earlier, Kangana had called Karan the “flag-bearer of nepotism” and “movie mafia” on Koffee with Karan. She had held the director accountable for Priyanka Chopra’s exit from Bollywood and accused him of running a “mafia PR” after calling him “obnoxious, jealous, mean and toxic”.
Kangana will be next seen in P Vasu’s Chandramukhi 2. She will also mark her directorial debut with Emergency, where she will play the role of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
