Manikarnika co director Krish opens up about Kangana Ranaut and the film, says ‘Kangana is rude all the time’

Since the inception of Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi made headlines for various controversies. The major ones were fallout with Sonu Sood and director of the film Krish leaving the film midway resulting in Kangana taking up the director’s chair. After all these hurdles, Manikarnika made its way to theater and doing good job at box office too.

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In conversation with Spotboye, NTR director Krish got talking about Kangana Ranaut and Sonu Sood’s performance which audience didn’t got a chance to see. “There’s not much difference (pause). But, Rani Laxmibai’s counterparts are not strong. They haven’t come out very well. Like for one, Sonu Sood had actually shot for Sadashiv Rao’s part (later done by Ayub). Zeshan is a brilliant actor, but the audience didn’t get to see what Sonu had done. If you see it, you will understand what I mean,” said the director.

Talking about his creative differnces with the lead actress of the film- Kangana, Krish was quoted saying, “Let me put it this way. Kangana’s footage would have been the same. After few days, she said that iska jyaada hai, uska jyaada hai, this girl is overpowering, that girl is overpowering. Then she came up with yeh change karna hai, woh change karna hai. She also said that Kamal Jain (producer) hadn’t liked the film. I agreed to make some changes. We decided we needed to shoot for an additional 6 days. And then, she suddenly rose to say that Sonu’s character should be killed at the interval point. This was completely against history. Sonu was playing an important antagonist, he had a beautiful arc in the story and we had shot with him beautifully for 35 days, Sadashiv (Sonu’s character) would have died in the film but just little before Laxmibai’s death.” 

He further added that during the filming of Manikarnika, Kangana was rude with him. He also commented over Sonu Sood walking out of the film. “Kangana is rude all the time. I felt very bad when I read in the papers Kangana saying that ‘Sonu couldn’t take orders from a female director’. That was annoying and bad. It never happened. What she said was untrue. I don’t blame Sonu for quitting. His run time was 100 minutes and it was being chopped to 60 minutes. Who will agree? Nobody would.”

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