With Karan Johar Lashing Out , The Isolation Of Kangana Ranaut Is Complete For Now

Whatever she may  feel, think or say about herself, Kangana Ranaut is at the end of the day a vulnerable outsider in the film industry. The way the mighty Karan Johar hit out at Kangana for her abrasive behaviour on his talk show goes to show what one of her leading men told me about her.

And  I quote, “Everyone keeps quiet while she says what she has  to say. not out of respect or fear but embarrassment. She has clearly misconstrued silence for acceptance and has continued to dig her grave among the film fraternity.”

Among the accusations that Kangana was impelled  to spit out at Karan Johar on Koffee With Karan were allegations of him being the “flag-bearer of nepotism” and a “snob”.She also called him  the “movie mafia”.

Corleone, when Karan would just well  make do with Leone?

Karan Johar has now hit back saying if the film industry is such a bad place, Kangana should leave.He is right. You can’t constantly badmouth your workplace.After a point it’s obscene.

Kangana has been going on with her anti-Bollywood  tirade for some time now.Her self-worth shot up after she gave a hit in a female-empowered film Queen. That this was followed quickly by the complete collapse of another Kangana-centric starrer Revolver Rani was completely ignored. The film industry decided to demonstrate its generosity  of heart towards this audaciously outspoken mercurial actress.

Lamentably, the  more the industry celebrated Kangana’s freespirited nature the more emboldened she was to make impolite comments against any and everyone  from Deepika Padukone to Hrithik Roshan. Matters have come to a point where a large number  of the film industry’s topnotchers from Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgan(both of whom swore off working with her during the making of David Dhawan’s Rascals) to …well…Saif Ali Khan and Shahid Kapoor(her Rangoon co-stars) are disinclined  to work with Kangana.

Karan Johar’s  criticism is a hard blow for Kangana’s  self-positioning in the entertainment industry. Karan’s voice holds weight and he is not  not known to lose his cool easily against anyone. That he has chosen to speak out against Kangana is being seen in the film industry as a collective groan of exasperation against her constant carping.

Significantly Karan Johar has spoken out against Kangana at a time when she is mourning(the colossal failure of her latest film) and he is celebrating(his fatherhood). It is a crippling blow  but not fatal. Kangana is way too talented and selfwilled to be daunted by a collective isolation.She may not have any A-list heroes clamouring to work with her. But she will make her presence felt in a free-falling hurl of self-assertion.

You can’t write her off.She won’t let you.