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Kangana Ranaut in conversation with Anupama Chopra and Rajeev Masand on Take 2, a podcast on Saavn. The whole podcast is available on their app.
Highlights:
She spoke about how the organizers gave Soha the supporting actress for Rang De Basanti since she was stuck in traffic and couldn't reach on time. She was nominated for Metro.
She also spoke about how an award function had decided to give her the award for best negative role in Krishh 3 and asked her to come down from the US where she was doing her screenwriting course and when she didn't oblige, the award was given to Supriya Pathak for Ram Leela.
She spoke about how she was criticized for not accepting the award Deepika dedicated to her and said why would she accept someone else's award when she knew she wasn't getting it since she had decided to not turn up.
She also said that she used to be a part of these awards pre Queen and only decided to protest post the success of Queen because nobody cared about her or knew who she was during Metro or Queen,so she had to do substantial in order to make her voice heard and hence decided to snub awards only after Queen.
All three of them also talk about their weird experiences with award functions and Masand says that Sonam had once shared how the 'editor' of a magazine which organizes an award function had said that she would be getting critics award for Neerja while Alia would be getting popular to which Sonam argued that it should be the opposite since Neerja was a bigger success than Udta to which the editor laughed and said you know how it is...
and then Kangana talks about the same 'editor' and names him too and says that he was so mad at her for not attending the function for Queen that he still doesn't talk to her and the magazine has this hostility towards her and that's why the next year they didn't nominate her for Tanu Weds Manu.
Kangana also tells that the reason she likes National Award is because no one is forced to attend or dance in the award function and they would still hand over the award to the original winner irrespective of whether the winner is present or absent.
They also talk about the commercialization of these award functions, the weird categories,how these fashion and style awards are basically sponsored by brands, there's no food or water in award functions, there's lack of an united award or measure of excellence by the industry like the Oscars,etc.
It was an interesting podcast. Waiting for the calm before the storm to end soon and see guns blazing on twitter.😆
Anupamaa
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