Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut’s anger against Alia Bhatt for not supporting her movie Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, is not hidden from anyone.
But the matter seems to be escalating quickly with Ranaut’s sister Rangoli Chandel stepping into the arena in her sister’s defense and with Bhatt’s mother Soni Razdan hitting back.
But earlier this week, the controversy took another turn with Kangana’s sister lashing out at Alia and her mother. She called them “non-Indians who are living off this land, using and abusing its people and its resources, lying about intolerance and spreading hatred”, she wrote in a tweet.
https://twitter.com/Rangoli_A/status/1117369661568503808
“Time to think about their agenda and not to get carried away with their provocations,” Rangoli had tweeted recently, referring to an article about the mother-daughter duo’s British passports.
After this, Razdan broke her silence and posted a tweet which has since then been deleted.
Soni Razdan wrote: “Mahesh Bhatt is the man who has given her a break…She goes on to attack his wife and daughter. Daughter over and over again. What is left to be said then about abusing and hatred I wonder. Apart from character of course. Agenda. What’s hers?”
But Rangoli was all set for giving her a long fact-check. She responded by writing a series of tweets ‘correcting’ Razdan
“Dear Soniji, Mahesh Bhatt never gave her a break, Anurag Basu did. Mahesh Bhattji works as a creative director in his brother’s production house.”
https://twitter.com/Rangoli_A/status/1118177015394213888
“Please note that he doesn’t own that production house, after Woh Lamhe when Kangana refused to do a film written by him called Dhokha where he wanted her to play a suicide bomber, he got so upset that he not only shouted at her in his office”
https://twitter.com/Rangoli_A/status/1118177434421960707
but later when she went for Woh Lamhe preview to a theatre, he threw a chappal at her. He didn’t allow her to see her own film. She cried the whole night, and she was just 19 years old.”
https://twitter.com/Rangoli_A/status/1118177614462472197
To Alia’s defense came her co-star in movie Highway, Randeep Hooda, who said that he was glad Alia was not letting the opinions of “very occasional actors” and “chronic victims” affect her work.
Dearest @aliaa08 I’m so glad you are not letting the opinions of very occasional actors and chronic victims affect you and your work .. kudos to you for your continued efforts to outdo yourself 🤗
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) April 16, 2019
Rangoli, however, was not having any of it, who responded soon after, calling out Randeep for his alleged harassment towards Kangana:
https://twitter.com/Rangoli_A/status/1118107562799316994
