Actor Alia Bhatt’s recent release ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ is heating up the box office, with her performance being praised in particular. While the majority of Bollywood shared words of appreciation after a special screening of the movie, Kangana Ranaut has nothing but criticism for the film and Alia’s casting in it.
In a recent interaction, Alia said that she has no “feelings of negativity” towards Kangana despite her disparaging remarks. She mentioned that her character in the film is so confident that she does not need validation from others. When asked if she feels bad that her open admiration for Kangana never gets reciprocated, Alia said, “No, I genuinely have no feelings of negativity or anything. I have no feelings only towards it.”
She elaborated, “I am also a person who spends a lot of time engaging with different energies, like in life also, meeting people and all and I always try and always focus, even with the people that I meet, even if I am having a hard day, I try to be light and positive. Because I think you have one life so fill it with as much lightness as possible. So even if there is any negative thing out there, whether it’s trolling or people saying things about me or whatever it is, it somehow doesn’t even reach me. Like that. It just doesn’t reach me.”
Alia plays a character inspired by a real-life sex worker in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directorial. It also stars Ajay Devgn, Vijay Raaz and Shantanu Maheshwari. Last weekend, Kangana slammed the movie and referred to Alia as “daddy’s angel” and “rom-com bimbo”.
She took to her Instagram Stories to write, “This Friday 200 crore will be burnt to ashes at the box office ... for a papa (movie mafia daddy) ki pari (who likes to keep a British passport) because papa wants to prove that rom-com bimbo can act... biggest drawback of the film is wrong casting.”
