Kangana Ranaut compares her film “Emergency” to Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”

The actor-politician, awaiting Emergency’s release on September 6, says, “It is so much like Macbeth.”

Kangana Ranaut is busy promoting her upcoming film Emergency, which will be released in theatres on September 6. In the film, she plays former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency period in India. In an interview with India Today, she recently compared her film to Nolan’s Oppenheimer and even called it much like Macbeth.

Kangana Ranaut says the film is a close comparison with Oppenheimer.

Speaking about doing a film on such a ‘touchy topic,’ she said, “I don’t know why people are so uncomfortable with the truth. As if it does not stand there glaring at us evidently, and so obviously. Ms. Gandhi is what she is, and we cannot compartmentalize people as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ If you look from that perspective, this film will open many doors for you.” She added, “But at the same time, a close comparison to draw with my film is maybe Oppenheimer.”

Kangana Ranaut also compares Emergency with Macbeth.

She also went ahead in explaining, “You can’t really decide whether to root for her, whether she is getting manipulated or she is manipulative. But aren’t all of us like that? Life is not so limited. It demands you to be so much and, at times, to be the person you don’t want to be. That is why I call it a Shakespearean tragedy. It is so much like Macbeth. Macbeth was destined to be the king, and when he becomes the king by killing the king the dagger follows him. His conscience follows him… The idea of Emergency is that the best of us can become a victim of hubris.”