After Kangana Ranaut called Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhasker “class B actresses”, their responses

New Delhi:

Latent tensions between actresses Kangana Ranaut and Taapsee Pannu overflowed in a firestorm this week with Swara Bhasker also playing a leading role. It all started with Kangana, 33, who dismissed her colleagues as “needy foreigners” and “grade B actresses” when she appeared on a news channel. Swara Bhasker replied on Twitter, as did Taapsee Pannu, who also spoke to the Hindustan Times and described Kangana Ranaut’s comments as “disheartening”. Perhaps inevitably, social media has taken sides – #NationStandsWithKangana trends on Twitter all day; support for Taapsee and Swara poured in from many sides, including journalists and Bollywood voices.

First, here’s what Kangana Ranaut said about nepotism in the film industry and actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death last month, allegedly by suicide: “I only have to lose here, because tomorrow they (referring to the ‘film mafia’) will have around twenty foreigners in need as Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhasker who will say “oh only Kangana has a problem with Karan Johar, but we love Karan Johar.” If you love Karan Johar, why are you two grade B actresses? You are more beautiful than Alia Bhatt and Ananya, you are both better actresses, why not work? Your existence is proof of nepotism. What do you tell me how satisfied you are with this industry? “

Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhasker were quick to respond with ironic tweets:

Maine suna class 12th n 10th ke result ke baad humaara result bhi aa gaya hai! Humaara official ab hai rating system? Abhi tak toh number system pe value decide hoti thi na #MaLifeMaRulesMaShitMaPot

– taapsee pannu (@taapsee) July 19, 2020

“-Needy outsider
– Grade B actress
(But) – better actor and better than Alia Bhatt and Ananya! “
Net net I think it was a compliment!
Thank you Kangana! I think you are magnificent, generous and a great actor! Shine on #KanganaSpeaksToArnab#Nepotism@KanganaTeamhttps://t.co/fIg4i3Lz5F

– Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) July 19, 2020

Speaking to Hindustan TimesTaapsee said, “It is disheartening to see someone making fun of strangers and the industry that has given us so much. Imagine the parents whose children enter the industry. What will they think of us? As if we were a bad villain of people sitting here eating strangers? “

Swara’s Twitter account is filled with retweets of people who weighed in, like director Anubhav Sinha, and posts like this:

Okay then on the subject .. full disclosure and confession.
I need.
I need respectful public interaction.
I need rationality and logic in the debate.
I need healthy, civil and decent public speech.
I need the rule of law.
and I need FACTS!
What do you need? #NeedyOutsider

– Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) July 20, 2020

Anubhav Sinha’s tweet:

When you speak like that, you are noting yourself.

– Anubhav Sinha (@anubhavsinha) July 20, 2020

Kangana Ranaut’s attack should be viewed in light of the actress and her sister’s previous comments about those named in her commentary on national television. For starters, Bollywood was wide open when Kangana called filmmaker Karan Johar “the standard bearer of nepotism” a few years ago on his show Koffee with Karan. KJo, son of producer Yash Johar, regularly stars such as Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor in his productions. In the month since Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, audience anger once again focused on Karan Johar for being contemptuous of the late actor on his show and who also allegedly boycotted Sushant.

Taapsee Pannu and Kangana Ranaut go back to last year when Kangana’s sister Rangoli Chandel called Taapsee a “sasti copy” of Kangana on her now-suspended Twitter account.. Taapsee’s crime – not naming Kangana Ranaut in an appreciation tweet for the actress film trailer Judgmentall Hai Kya? This provoked an extraordinary rant from Rangoli, who also attacked filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for telling her that “it was going too far, it’s really, really desperate” and that “renting the trailer means renting all aspects”.

All categories combined, the three actresses have, among themselves, been part of several quality cinemas made in recent years. Kangana Ranaut has three national awards to her credit for Fashion, Queen and Tanu marries Manu back and was last seen in the sports film Panga; Taapsee Pannu starred in hard-hitting dramas such as Mulk, Pink and Thappad; Swara Bhasker, who co-starred with Kangana in the Tanu Weds Manu films, has been awarded in films such as Nile Battey Sannata and Anaarkali Of Aarah.