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Meet Kangana Ranaut: The Queen Who Fought Nepotism
Brut India
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4/18/2025
She ruled the red carpet at Festival de Cannes with elegance.
But this fearless Bollywood actress comes from a humble background and had to overcome patriarchy and nepotism to get to where she is today.
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I didn't see myself as a liability.
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I didn't see myself as someone whose purpose of life is just to find a good enough husband
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who can take care of her.
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I wasn't a child that an Indian parent would like to have.
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I was quite rebellious.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother and I probably
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wanted to be that person who he could be proud of and who could be her own hero.
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My parents gave me an easy option that if you are going to go your way, there's the
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highway and you can probably expect no funds and no support.
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When I started out, they dismissed me like a nobody.
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When I came to Mumbai, they saw me as this village woman who had a weird accent and
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weird appearance, I guess, but I didn't see myself like that.
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I always put my work as a priority because I don't give into all that philosophical talks
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that money is nothing and it's the real thing in life, but it's because of money that today
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I could give a very comfortable life for my parents.
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I could afford a very secure future for myself and I could actually support causes that I
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really believe in.
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It's all because of my work and things that I could earn in my life and things that make
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me happy.
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The
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right to wear what you want, whether it's a bikini or a burqa, either way, you should
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be allowed to wear what you want is another something so shameful that any society who
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has to state the obvious is in a bad shape, I must say.
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The right to go out at your own convenience and at the time that you want to and for that
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we need law enforcement and the infrastructure and the involvement of authorities.
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We don't have that, clearly don't have that, so women can't participate as much as they
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would like to.
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Growing up, yes, I did feel that there is something, something doesn't fit in, right?
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Because if you're born into a situation, you wouldn't know what is it like not to be there.
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You wouldn't know that there is something unfair when you haven't seen what fair is
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like, right?
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You don't know that it's okay for your brother to have a different upbringing and for you
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to have a different upbringing because that's the upbringing of every woman around you,
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so that is being normalized.
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We are still struggling with very primitive, very, very primitive things that we are fighting
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for as women and as equal rights that, you know, equal pay for equal work is something
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which is so shameful even to be fighting for.
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I feel that India is now free because before this, we were slaves of the British, the Mughals
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and the Italian government.
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When so many children are dying on our borders, how do you sleep?
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How dare you say in this democracy that don't ask me about politics?
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I think Mayank Shekhar was giving an interview to Ranbir Kapoor when he said,
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there is electricity and water in my house.
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How did he not answer him back?
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How did he not make him sit and ask him to get lost from there?
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How do you all tolerate this in a democracy like that?
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And then you make these people your role models?
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How does that work?
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So this is not going to work.
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This is the beginning of a new India and I think our stand in the world is very clear
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that we are not going to take things lying down and also we are going to reciprocate
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the way, you know, we are dealt with.
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So definitely it's a good strategy to have.
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Today I am who I am because my understanding of myself never changed.
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So as women, we don't have to hope that we get our due.
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We need to get up and get it ourselves.
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