Kangana Ranaut unveiled a 20-foot poster in Varanasi for her upcoming period drama Manikarnika -The Queen of Jhansi at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on May 4. The 30-year-old actress reached the holy city on Wednesday and performed the Ganga aarti the following evening.
Speaking to Mumbai Mirror from Varanasi, Kangana admitted to feeling a great sense of empathy with the Jhansi ki Rani who single-handedly took on the British. Pointing out that the warrior queen's most amazing quality was her righteousness. Kangana told the tabloid, “She had a great sense of right and wrong, fair and unfair, just and unjust. That's a quality I identify with her.The British did ask her to choose between life and death. She chose not to live without dignity and that's pretty much my philosophy. You cannot live without your pride as a woman."
She recalled how when writer KV Vijayendra Prasad had narrated the script to her, many a times she had burst into spontaneous applause or had wanted to whistle and at the end she had touched his feet and asked for his blessings. “I saw Baahubali 2 recently and thought it was an extraordinary film. He assured me Manikarnika would be no less," she maintained.
It's obvious that this Kamal Jain and Zee Studios' production, which is directed by Krish, is a special film for her. “I feel whatever I have done in the last 11 years has led me to it, it completes me, I am 30 now and I don't see myself working with another director after this. I will focus on being a filmmaker," she asserted.
