Kangana Ranaut: Intimidating women aren’t worth having sex with

If there is one actress you can count on to defy diplomacy, it’s Kangana Ranaut. While the Indian entertainment industry applauds Priyanka Chopra’s Hollywood-bastion-breach, even honouring her for the feat with an award that labels her an icon, Kangana doesn’t think it’s special. While another A-lister, Deepika Padukone, followed PeeCee, landing a part in Vin Diesel-starrer ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’, Kangana says she has no aspirations of going international. “It would be stupid for anyone to make the move to the West now. Their theatre business is crashing because of the influx of digital media. Asia, on the other hand, is where Hollywood was 15 years ago. It is a lucrative time for entertainment here. These are baits that I won’t fall prey to.”

Presumably taking a potshot at Deepika, who ensured a traditional desi welcome for her first Hollywood co-star, Diesel, Kangana pooh-pooh’s the “dhol and nagadas”. Taking the indigenous-talent-first stance, she says, “If an American film [‘The Jungle Book’, 2016] is doing Rs 100 crore business, and not all our films are able to, we may not find adequate screens for home-bred films 10 years down the line. I’m all for world cinema, but it needs to be a film that brings employment and money into our country. I don’t wish to offer myself on a platter to another industry.”