Shabana Azmi is known for speaking her mind and now the veteran actress has said that maybe Kangana Ranaut frets about fading into oblivion and therefore, makes "outrageous statements to stay in the news". In addition to this, Shabana also advised Kangana to stick to acting asking her to "just do what she is best at".
Kangana has been drawing attention by constantly making remarks about the ills of the film industry, nepotism, and alleged drug use. In the past, she also referred to Bollywood as a "gutter", which drew a response from many of her industry colleagues including Jaya Bachchan.
In an interview with Mumbai Mirror, Shabana responded to Kangana’s statement and said, "Kangana has started believing in her own myth. She says she taught feminism to the film industry, she taught it nationalism. I’m glad she spelled that out because nobody else had noticed! I think she fears the day when she will no longer be in the headlines and so has to keep making outrageous statements to stay in the news. Poor girl, why doesn’t she just do what she is best at, which is acting."
Shabana said that the film industry has its issues but it was unfair to paint the entire industry with the same brush. "There are many socially committed outspoken people too, does the entire industry gets bathed in a halo because of them?" she questioned.
Apart from this, Shabana also said that the film industry is a "sitting duck" and levelling malicious allegations against it is a part of a "systematic campaign to divert attention from real issues".
In the past, Kangana has called Shabana an "anti-national". Kangana’s sister and manager Rangoli Chandel earlier had also claimed that Javed called Kangana home and "intimidated" and "threatened" her to apologise to Hrithik Roshan.