Kangana Ranaut wants to direct Karan Johar in her directorial

The Emergency actress recently said on a TV reality show that she wants to cast Karan Johar in her film.

Kangana Ranaut recently appeared on the singing TV reality show Indian Idol 15. During the show, the Emergency actress said that she wants to cast Karan Johar in her directorial. In 2017, quite infamously, on the Koffee with Karan show, Kangana had labelled Karan as the “flag-bearer of nepotism.” She said she sees the filmmaker as the villain of her potential biopic. In her recent appearance in a show, she said she still wants to cast him but “in a very good role.”

Kangana Ranaut says she wants to cast Karan Johar in her directorial.

On a recent episode on Indian Idol 15, Kangana was asked if she would still act in a movie produced by Karan Johar’s banner Dharma Productions, given her ongoing cold war. Kangana laughed and responded, “I’m sorry to say, but Karan sir ko mere saath movie karna chahiye (should do a movie with me). I’ll give him a very good role and I’ll make a very good film, which will not be saas-bahu ki chuglibaazi and which will not be just, you know, PR exercise. It will be a proper film, and he’ll get a proper role.”

Kangana Ranaut’s comments back in 2017 on Koffee with Karan.

In 2017, during Season 5 of Koffee with Karan, Kangana appeared with her Rangoon co-stars, Saif Ali Khan and Shahid Kapoor. In the infamous episode during the Rapid Fire segment, Karan asked Kangana who she sees as the villain in her biopic; Kangana pointed at him and said, “The flag-bearer of nepotism,” much to his shock. Later, Karan argued that while he showed grace as a host, no other contemporary film producer has launched as many new directors as he has in his company. He said he hasn’t worked with Kangana out of choice, not because she’s an outsider.

Kangana Ranaut will next be seen in her directorial film Emergency. She plays former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi in the period political thriller produced under her banner Manikarnika Films and Zee Studios. The film is based on the 1975 Emergency imposed across India by the then PM and is slated to release on January 17, 2025.