Kangana Ranaut opens up on Bollywood's secrets amid Kerala film industry scandal

Kangana Ranaut has never shied away from speaking her mind. The actress-politician spoke at length about the recent scandals that have plagued the Malayalam film fraternity. Commenting on the findings of the Hema Committee, the ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ star said that the report should have been released much earlier, at the height of the #MeToo movement.

When questioned about how the report has drawn widespread attention to the issue of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry, Kangana remarked that she was branded as "problematic" when she attempted to do the same. She mentioned that her goal was to empower women who spoke out about being assaulted by influential figures in the industry, but many of those women later withdrew their accusations.

Kangana revealed that she was "abandoned" to face all the criticism alone when some of these women either stopped speaking out, retracted their complaints, or even resumed working with their abusers.


"I had vocally spoken about it, in favour of the women. But then their silence was bought with money. I kept searching for them, but they vanished. Some of them signed a few films with the same people, and I kept searching for them. I am very disappointed with these women. I was left alone, and became the problematic person," she said in an interview with the Hindi news outlet The Lallantop.

"Those women came out, and then I was trying to build some pressure, but the voices were muffled. If this report had been released back then, all the industries would have been united. I was left alone, and then they started filing cases, trying to put me behind bars," she added.

On the work front, Ranaut will next be seen in the biopic 'Emergency,’ where she will be essaying the role of Indira Gandhi. The political drama also marks her return to direction after five years.