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Kangana Ranaut: Girl Uninterrupted
03 Dec 2008, Filmfare
SHE'S A WOMAN on the edge. Her movie roles tap that quirkiness in her character. Hollywood makes space in its heart for such natural je ne sais quoi. She could be Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas, she could play Jodie Foster in the Accused or do a Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy. With her latest turn in Fashion, she's perfected the madness in the method. Some critics loved her, some of them ripped her apart. But Ms Ranaut is on a movie roll. Excerpts from the Girl Uninterrupted.
"I have never played typical roles because I don't like to do anything typical. Even during my childhood I would never wear a frock that I saw a friend wearing. I always wanted to be different and will go to any extent to be so."
"Yes, I am different. Basically I am a small town, middle-class girl. Today, I might be a rich woman with my own house and car but somehow I can't mix with the 21 year olds here. I feel out of place talking to them, what with their slang and American culture. On the other hand, the older ones here are too smart for me to handle. So I don't know where exactly I fit. I feel out of place everywhere. I don't like the people around here."
"I love the camera. The sound of a camera rolling turns me on," she murmurs. "I am like a kid in a candy shop when the camera is on. I seek excitement since I am an over-enthusiastic soul. And since you have to live with your character for a long time, you can't spend that much time doing something that bores you to death."
"The worst thing that can happen to me is a bad director," she says candidly. "I was not born talented. The credit for honing my talent goes to director Anurag Basu. He steadfastly worked on me, on my emotions and extracted that level of performance from me in Gangster. I was like clay in his hands. It was only after I saw the final print of Gangster that I realised the magic that we'd created. That's when I realised I had to become serious about my work. I started on such a high that I didn't know where to go from there. And that's scary because I know characters like the one in Gangster don't come everyday."
"I sort of lost control of my life when I was 16. At that time, I did things because others were doing so. Like if my friends went for auditions I did too, if they went to a disco, I went too. I guess for a young girl, who's new in a place, life is all about having someone to take you out for dinner or to the disco. Financial security is a priority. And in that precarious situation if somebody offers you a house and food saying, 'I am doing all this out of compassion because you are the most amazing person I have met,' you want to believe there is nothing wrong in that. For a young girl who has nowhere else to go, it seems okay to accept help from a friend. And before you know it you are in deep shit."
"Sometimes I wish I was in college like my other friends, getting pocket money from home and enjoying life like my hostel friends. They would go on blind dates, have cybersex every night. They envy me for getting to meet John Abraham or Abhishek Bachchan or Hrithik Roshan. I guess everybody wants to live the other's life."
"See, there is time for everything in life and right now is the time to concentrate on work. If Adhyayan and I are meant to be together, we can always find time for love later. That is my plan, let's see what destiny wills! Adhyanan says, 'You are the only person I have seen in life who talks like this. Who waits for three years to make a relationship work?' But I think I make a lot of sense to myself. I have to run my home, my own kitchen after all and when you have to pay installments for a house you've bought in Bandra you have to be focused. You can't say dekhenge kal ki kya hota hai."
"I no longer need to call my bank after every buy, to ask how much money I have left in the account. If I go anywhere in Mumbai people recognise me. I have made a name for myself. People know me more as an actor than a star. I have done that much for myself in two years and I think that's good enough for now."
For the complete uninterrupted version, get your hands on the Filmfare issue dated December 10, 2008
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