When Kangana Ranaut 'buried' acting ambitions & didn't have 'courage' to return to India

A tag that has become synonymous with Kangana Ranaut over the years has been ‘Queen’ after her National Award-winning performance in the movie of the same name. However, did you know that the actor considered taking up filmmaking in the United States of America and not return to India after shooting the movie? The lead star revealed this in an anecdote as the movie completed seven years on Sunday.

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Kangana Ranaut marks 7 years of Queen 

Kangana Ranaut wrote that it was after ‘almost a decade long struggle’ where she was told that she was ’too good an actor’ to be a Bollywood leading lady, with curly hair and vulnerable voice being termed as the factors, that she signed Queen. The Tanu Weds Manu star claimed that she thought that the movie won’t release at all, and signed it 'for the money' as she wanted to do a film school course. 

Kangana then wrote that she went to New York to study screenwriting and even directed a small film in California when she was 24, that gave her ‘breakthrough in Hollywood’. The actor tweeted that impressed by the short film, she was hired by a 'big agency.' She stated that she ‘buried’ all her acting ambitions and did not have the ‘courage’ to return to India. She even bought a house on the outskirts of LA in Calabasas, and ‘left everything’ associated with her career in India.

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At this stage, Queen released, Kangana wrote, adding that it ‘changed’ her life and ‘Indian Cinema forever’. She stated that the movie gave birth to a ‘new leading lady and woman centric parallel cinema.’ She called the response for the movie as ‘overwhelming’ and that having faith is one's abilities often led to success. 

Kangana Ranaut had played the role of a simple Delhi girl, who sets off for a solo honeymoon to Paris after her would-be refuses to marry her, and then discovering herself on the journey. The movie, after a slow start, witnessed a massive turnaround, to earn over Rs 50 crore at the box office, and also winning the Best Feature Film in Hindi National Award.   

Meanwhile, Kangana is currently in the news for three films. She is set to feature in the movie Thalaivi, as she worked on movies like Dhaakad and Tejas.   

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