
Kangana Ranaut
Born | 23 March 1987 (age 35) Bhambla, Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Model |
Years active | 2006– present |
Honors | Padma Shri (2020) |
Kangana Ranaut born 23 March 1987 is an Indian actress and movie producer who works in Hindi movies. The beneficiary of a few honors, including four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards, she has highlighted multiple times in Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 rundown. In 2020, the Government of India regarded her with the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth most noteworthy regular citizen grant.
Born in Bhambla, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, Ranaut at first tried to turn into a specialist at the demand of her folks. Resolved to fabricate her own profession, she migrated to Delhi at sixteen years old and took up demonstrating for a concise timeframe. In the wake of being prepared under theater chief Arvind Gaur, Ranaut made her component film debut in the 2006 spine chiller Gangster, for which she was granted the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She got acclaim for depicting genuinely exceptional characters in the dramatizations Woh Lamhe (2006), Life in a… Metro (2007) and Fashion (2008). For the remainder of these, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Ranaut showed up in the economically effective movies Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009) and Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010) yet was reprimanded for being pigeonholed in hypochondriac jobs. A comic part in Tanu Weds Manu (2011) was generally welcomed, however this was trailed by a progression of brief, charming jobs in films that neglected to drive her vocation forward. This changed in 2013 when she played a freak in the sci-fi film Krrish 3, one of the greatest netting Indian movies. Ranaut proceeded to win two sequential National Film Awards for Best Actress for playing an unwanted lady of the hour in the parody twit (2014) and a double part in the satire spin-off Tanu Weds Manu: Returns (2015), which was the greatest acquiring female-drove Hindi film at that point. After various business disappointments, she depicted the nominal champion in her co-executive endeavor, the biopic Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019), trailed by a job as a kabbadi major part in the games film Panga (2020). She was granted a fourth National Film Award for these two exhibitions.
Ranaut is acknowledged in the media as extraordinary compared to other dressed famous people in the country, and is known to be straightforward in the press. The feelings she has voiced, alongside successive reports of her own and expert connections, have as often as possible started contention.

Ranaut was born on 23 March 1987 at Bhambla (presently Surajpur), an unassuming community in the Mandi area of Himachal Pradesh, into a Rajput family. Her mom, Asha Ranaut, is a teacher, and her dad, Amardeep Ranaut, is a businessman. She has a senior sister, Rangoli Chandel, who starting in 2014 functions as her director, and a more youthful sibling, Akshat. Her incredible granddad, Sarju Singh Ranaut, was a Member of the Legislative Assembly and her granddad was an official for the Indian Administrative Service. She experienced childhood in a joint family at their familial haveli (manor) in Bhambla, and depicted her adolescence as “basic and happy”.
As per Ranaut, she was “obstinate and insubordinate” while growing up: “If my dad would blessing my sibling a plastic firearm and get a doll for me, I would not acknowledge that. I scrutinized the discrimination.”She didn’t buy into the generalizations that were anticipated from her and explored different avenues regarding style from early on, regularly blending up extras and garments that would appear “odd” to her neighbors. Ranaut was instructed at the DAV School in Chandigarh, where she sought after science as her center subject, commenting that she was “contemplative” and “consistently distrustful about results”. She at first planned to turn into a specialist on the demand of her parents. However, a bombed unit test in science during her twelfth grade drove Ranaut to reexamine her vocation possibilities and notwithstanding getting ready for the All India Pre-Medical Test, she didn’t turn up for the exam. Determined to discover her “space and opportunity”, she migrated to Delhi at the period of sixteen. Her choice not to seek after medication prompted steady quarreling with her folks and her dad wouldn’t support a pursuit he viewed as aimless.
In Delhi, Ranaut was uncertain about which profession to pick; the Elite Modeling Agency was intrigued by her looks and recommended that she model for them. She took on a couple of demonstrating tasks, however by and large despised the vocation as she found “no degree for creativity”. Ranaut chose to move center towards acting and joined the Asmita Theater Group, where she prepared under the theater chief Arvind Gaur. She partook in Gaur’s theater workshop at the India Habitat Center, acting in a few of his plays, including the Girish Karnad-scripted Taledanda. During a presentation, when one of the male entertainers disappeared, Ranaut had his influence alongside her unique job of a woman. A positive response from the crowd incited her to move to Mumbai to seek after a vocation in film and she enlisted herself for a four-month acting course in Asha Chandra’s dramatization school.
Ranaut battled with her small profit during this period, eating just “bread and aachar (pickle)”. Rejecting her dad’s monetary help prompted a break in their relationship which she later regretted. Her family members were discontent with her choice to enter the film-production industry, and they didn’t compare with her for a few years. She accommodated with them after the arrival of Life in a… Metro in 2007.
Ranaut has expressed that her underlying years in the entertainment world were defaced with troubles as she was ill-equipped to be an actress. She was aware of her helpless order of the English language and battled to “fit in”. In a 2013 meeting with Daily News and Analysis, Ranaut recalled:
“Individuals in the business dealt with me as I didn’t have the right to be addressed and I was some undesirable article. I was unable to communicate in English smoothly and individuals ridiculed me for that. So managing dismissal turned into a piece of life. … All that has caused significant damage, I presume. I think that its difficult to manage acclaim. Today, when individuals say that I have made it and made it all alone, I want to secure myself some place … It alarms me.”
During the battle, Ranaut discovered help in the entertainer Aditya Pancholi and his significant other Zarina Wahab and thought of them as her “family away from home”. She got entangled in a very much broadcasted embarrassment when the media estimated on the idea of her relationship with Pancholi. She declined to talk about it straightforwardly, in spite of the fact that she disclosed a few appearances with him. In 2007 it was accounted for that Ranaut had recorded a police protest against Pancholi for actually attacking her affected by alcohol. The next year Pancholi affirmed the undertaking in a meeting, saying that he had been living together with Ranaut previously and blamed her for owing him ₹2.5 million (US$35,000).accordingly, Ranaut’s representative said that “after genuinely attacking her in a street, he has no privilege to anticipate anything from her”, adding that she had “effectively given ₹5 million (US$70,000) to [him] as a generosity gesture”. Ranaut later said that the episode had left her “truly and intellectually” damaged.
While recording Raaz: The Mystery Continues in 2008, Ranaut started a heartfelt connection with co-star Adhyayan Suman. On Suman’s demand that he center around his expert vocation, the couple isolated the accompanying year. From 2010 to 2012, Ranaut was engaged with a significant distance sentiment with Nicholas Lafferty, an English doctor; she depicted the relationship as “the most typical” she at any point had, yet the couple split agreeably as she was not prepared for marriage. She has since kept up that she won’t ever get married, and wants to not be limited by a relationship. In 2016, Hrithik Roshan, her co-star from Krrish 3, documented a claim against Ranaut blaming her for digital following and badgering. Denying the charges, Ranaut recorded a counter-charge against Roshan, asserting that his claim was an endeavor to conceal their issue to serve his separation proceedings. The case was shut sometime thereafter inferable from absence of evidence.
Ranaut lives in Mumbai with her sister Rangoli, who was the survivor of a corrosive assault in 2006. She makes yearly visits to her old neighborhood of Bhambla. A rehearsing Hindu, Ranaut follows the lessons of the profound pioneer Swami Vivekananda and believes contemplation to be “the most noteworthy type of adoring God”. She rehearses vegetarianism and was recorded as “India’s most smoking veggie lover” in a survey led by PETA in 2013. Since 2009 Ranaut has been considering the dance type of kathak from the Nateshwar Nritya Kala Mandir. She has said that the specialized cycle of filmmaking is of huge premium to her, and to better her comprehension of it Ranaut took on a two-month screenplay composing course at the New York Film Academy in 2014. In a meeting with Filmfare she said that regardless of her fame, she needs to have a typical existence: “I would prefer not to lose my privileges as a typical individual to learn and grow”.
In the book Acting Smart: Your Ticket to Showbiz, Tisca Chopra portrays Ranaut as a “free-lively, unique imaginative” individual “who can’t actually be opened in a specific mould”. Ranaut is especially known for her candor in communicating her suppositions out in the open on issues going from film to feminism. A broadcast 2013 meeting facilitated by Anupama Chopra in which Ranaut stood in opposition to sex inclination and nepotism in Bollywood became a web sensation on the web, which drove Sunaina Kumar of Tehelka to state: “In this time of cutout champions with stock reactions, Kangana Ranaut is refreshingly genuine and honest.” Ranaut had a public aftermath with the producer Karan Johar when she blamed him for nepotism during a talk show appearance in 2017. She has since kept on upholding against nepotism in the industry, all the more so after the demise of Sushant Singh Rajput, when she blamed persuasive film experts for having “deliberately undermined” his career. Ranaut relates to traditional ideologies, and is an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A functioning analyst via web-based media, for example, Twitter, Ranaut regularly communicates political views, discusses her strict association and activity, and voices analysis of nonconformists and anarchists.
Investigating Ranaut’s profession, the writer Parmita Uniyal, in 2014, noticed that she “loves to challenge herself with interesting jobs and figures out how to add an alternate measurement to her character each time.” A commentator for Rediff.com depicted her as a “chief’s entertainer” who is vulnerable to both “sparkle and disintegrate under the right/wrong guidance”. Anand L Rai (the head of Tanu Weds Manu) says that Ranaut effectively seeks after jobs in which she can “work in her own space and not become a simple prop in the male-overwhelmed Bollywood”. Alongside entertainer Vidya Balan, Ranaut has been credited for initiating a development that breaks generalizations of a Hindi film courageous woman by playing the hero in films not featuring a notable male star. Following the achievement of Queen and Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Deccan Chronicle named her as “quite possibly the most bankable entertainers in the business”, and Daily News and Analysis announced that she had arisen as one of the most generously compensated entertainers in Bollywood. Ranaut was included by Forbes India in their yearly Celebrity 100 rundown in 2012, 2014–2017, and 2019. In 2017, Forbes determined her yearly compensation to be ₹320 million (US$4.5 million), one of the greatest among entertainers in the country. Also that year, she was one of two entertainers to highlight in The Indian Express’ posting of the most impressive Indians.
Ranaut has been refered to as a sex image and style symbol in India. Analyzing Ranaut’s off-screen persona, Hindustan Times distributed that she was at first discounted by Indian writers because of her “clever complement” and the contrary exposure produced by her upset connections; notwithstanding, her characterizing design decisions and her capricious film jobs at last settled her as a star. Ranaut has much of the time highlighted in postings of the most appealing and snazzy VIPs in India. She positioned among the best 10 on The Times of India’s posting of the “Best Woman” in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015. Ranaut was highlighted on Verve’s posting of the most influential ladies of 2010 and in 2012 she was named the “Best Dressed Personality” by the Indian release of People magazine. In 2013, Ranaut included as outstanding amongst other dressed ladies superstars by Vogue India. The writer Jagmeeta Thind Joy credits the entertainer for her “particular, practically non-Bollywood take on close to home style”, adding that she “gets a kick out of the chance to spectacular display with her choices”. She has teamed up with the design brand Vero Moda to dispatch two garments lines for the organization, named Marquee and Venice Cruise, in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | |
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2006 | Gangster | Simran | Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut | |
Woh Lamhe | Sana Azim | |||
2007 | Shakalaka Boom Boom | Ruhi | ||
Life in a… Metro | Neha | |||
2008 | Dhaam Dhoom | |||
Fashion | Shonali Gujral | Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress | ||
2009 | Raaz: The Mystery Continues | Nandita Chopra | ||
Vaada Raha | Pooja | Special appearance | ||
Ek Niranjan | Sameera | Telugu film | ||
2010 | Kites | Gina Grover | ||
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai | Rehana | |||
Knock Out | Nidhi Shrivastava | |||
No Problem | Sanjana | |||
2011 | Tanu Weds Manu | Tanuja “Tanu” Trivedi | ||
Game | Sia Agnihotri | |||
Ready | Kiran | Special appearance | ||
Double Dhamaal | Kiya | |||
Rascals | Khushi | |||
Miley Naa Miley Hum | Anishka Shrivastava | |||
2012 | Tezz | Nikita Malhotra | ||
2013 | Shootout at Wadala | Vidya Joshi | ||
Krrish 3 | Kaya | |||
Rajjo | Rajjo | |||
2014 | Queen | Rani Mehra | Also dialogue writer Filmfare Award for Best Actress National Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue | |
Revolver Rani | Alka Singh | |||
Ungli | Maya | |||
2015 | Tanu Weds Manu Returns | Kusum “Datto” Sangwan/ Tanuja “Tanu” Trivedi[a] | National Film Award for Best Actress Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | |
I Love NY | Tikku Verma | |||
Katti Batti | Payal | |||
2017 | Rangoon | Julia | Nominated—Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress | |
Simran | Praful Patel | Also co-Writer | ||
2019 | Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi | Rani Laxmibai | Also director National Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | |
Judgementall Hai Kya | Bobby Grewal | Nominated—Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress | ||
2020 | Panga | Jaya Nigam | National Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | |
2021 | Thalaivi![]() | J. Jayalalithaa | Bilingual film; Post-production | |
Dhaakad![]() | Agent Agni | Filming | ||
Tejas![]() | TBA | Filming |
Year[b] | Award | Category | Work | Result | |
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Best Actress | Nominated | ||||
2007 | Asian Festival of First Films | Best Actress | Won | ||
Bollywood Movie Awards | Best Female Debut | Won | |||
Filmfare Awards | Best Female Debut | Won | |||
International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Female Debut | Won | |||
Best Actress | Nominated | ||||
Screen Awards | Most Promising Newcomer – Female | Won | |||
Stardust Awards | Superstar of Tomorrow – Female | Won | |||
Zee Cine Awards | Best Female Debut | Won | |||
2008 | Stardust Awards | Breakthrough Performance – Female | Life in a… Metro | Won | |
2009 | Filmfare Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Fashion | Won | |
International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
National Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
Screen Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |||
Producers Guild Film Awards[c] | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Won | |||
Stardust Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
2011 | Stardust Awards | Best Actress – Thriller/Action | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai | Nominated | |
Zee Cine Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female | Nominated | |||
2012 | International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | Tanu Weds Manu | Nominated | |
Screen Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
Producers Guild Film Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | |||
Stardust Awards | Best Actress – Comedy/Romance | Nominated | |||
Zee Cine Awards | Best Actor – Female | Nominated | |||
2014 | Screen Awards | Best Actress (Popular Choice) | Krrish 3 / Shootout at Wadala[d] | Nominated | |
International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Krrish 3 | Nominated | ||
Screen Awards | Best Villain | Nominated | |||
Producers Guild Film Awards | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |||
Zee Cine Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female | Nominated | |||
NDTV Indian of the Year | Actor of the Year | — | Won | ||
GR8! Women Awards | Distinction in Cinema – Acting | Won | |||
CNN-IBN Indian of the Year | Special Achievement Award | Won | |||
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne | Best Actress | Queen | Won | ||
Jagran Film Festival | Best Actor (Female) | Won | |||
Stardust Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
Star of the Year – Female | Nominated | ||||
BIG Star Entertainment Awards | Most Entertaining Actor (Film) – Female | Nominated | |||
Most Entertaining Actor in a Social/Drama Film – Female | Nominated | ||||
2015 | Producers Guild Film Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | ||
Best Dialogue (shared with Anvita Dutt Guptan) | Nominated | ||||
Screen Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
Best Actress (Popular Choice) | Nominated | ||||
Best Dialogue (shared with Anvita Dutt Guptan) | Nominated | ||||
Filmfare Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
National Film Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
Arab Indo Bollywood Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Won | |||
Best Playback Dialogue (shared with Anvita Dutt Guptan) | Won | ||||
International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
Stardust Awards | Best Actress | Tanu Weds Manu Returns | Nominated | ||
BIG Star Entertainment Awards | Most Entertaining Actor in a Comedy Film – Female | Nominated | |||
Most Entertaining Actor in a Romantic Film – Female | Nominated | ||||
Most Entertaining Actor in a Drama Film – Female | Nominated | ||||
2016 | Screen Awards | Best Actress (Popular Choice) | Nominated | ||
Best Actress | Nominated | ||||
Producers Guild Film Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | |||
Filmfare Awards | Best Actress (Critics) | Won | |||
Best Actress | Nominated | ||||
Zee Cine Awards | Best Actor – Female | Nominated | |||
Critics Award for Best Actor – Female | Nominated | ||||
Times of India Film Awards | Best Actor – Female | Won | |||
National Film Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
International Indian Film Academy Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
CNN-IBN Indian of the Year | Special Achievement Award | — | Won | ||
2018 | Filmfare Awards | Best Actress (Critics) | Rangoon | Nominated | |
Screen Awards | Best Actress | Simran | Nominated | ||
2019 | Screen Awards | Best Actress | Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi | Nominated | |
2020 | Padma Shri | For excellence in the field of performing arts | Civilian Awards | Won | |
Filmfare Awards | Best Actress (Critics) | Judgementall Hai Kya | Nominated | ||
Best Actress | Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi | Nominated | |||
2021 | National Film Awards | Best Actress | • Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi • Panga | Won | |
Filmfare Awards | Best Actress | Panga | Nominated |