Kangana Ranaut

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kangana Ranaut

• Does Kangana Ranaut smoke?: Yes

• Does Kangana Ranaut drink alcohol?: Yes

• Kangana was born to a well-off Rajput landlord family of Himachal Pradesh.

  

• She grew up in a male dominant conservative joint family and the biased restriction made her rebellious. She told in an interview, “My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, If you slap me I will slap you back.”

  

• Her mother wanted her to get married at the age of 16, but Kangana straightaway showed her disapproval.

• In her childhood, she rarely saw films; as her hometown didn’t have a theatre and DVD’s was a rarity at that time.

• She was always a bright student and aspired to become a doctor. As a science student, she used to study for around 18 hours a day and secured 90% in her intermediate. But she suffered a setback when she failed to clear her pre-medical, which made her quit studies and move out of her hometown.

• While studying at DAV School in sector -15, Chandigarh, she shared her hostel room with Ranita and Bondina who became her close friends, and they were called “Charlie’s Angels.”

  

• In her younger days, she was an active participator in the beauty contests.

  

• She was kicked out of her house when she told her family that she wanted to enter the glamour world.

• When she moved to Delhi, she initially learnt music, and in 2003, she joined Elite Modelling Agency in Delhi in 2003, to become a model.

• Before doing films, she worked as a theatre actor in Delhi with the Asmita Theatre Group. Her first play was Girish Karnad‘s Taledanda (Rakt-Kalyan). Moreover, she also did plays for Arvind Gaur’s workshop at India Habitat Centre.

• In 2005, her younger sister Rangoli Chandel was attacked with acid by a man, who had entered her house as a money order delivery boy.

  

• She learnt acting skills from Asha Chandra’s acting school in Mumbai.

• When she was in Mumbai for a catalogue shoot, she gave auditions to Mohit Suri, Anurag Basu, and Mahesh Bhatt, for the film ‘Gangster’ (2006). Mahesh Bhatt was reluctant to cast her; as he considered her too young for the role, and instead, he shortlisted Chitrangada Singh. Two months later, the dejected Kangana Ranaut got a call from Anurag Basu that she has been selected to play the lead role in the film as Chitrangada had some issues with the outdoor shoot.
  

• After making her acting with in the Bollywood film Gangster in 2006, she was felicitated at her school in DAV Chandigarh by her principal ma’am Dr. Sachdeva who crowned her as the “Pride of DAV.”

  

• She is one of the youngest Indian actresses to win the National Film Awards at the age of 22, Best Supporting Actress for Fashion (2008).

• She went to New York for her scriptwriting course but had to leave it midway; as she had to return to India to promote her film ‘Queen.’

• Earlier, she used to be a hardcore non-vegetarian, in 2013, she turned vegetarian. Moreover, in the same year, she was listed as “India’s Hottest Vegetarian” by PETA.

• She has won 3 National Awards for her performance in Fashion (2006), Queen (2014), and Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015).

• She is a trained Kathak dancer.

• Her first crush was English footballer, David Beckham.

• She has hardly seen a dozen films and doesn’t watch TV shows at all.

• She dreams of purchasing an organic farmhouse and a stable in Shimla after she retires from her work.

• In September 2017, she revealed explosive things about her personal life and Bollywood film industry on Rajat Sharma‘s ‘Aap Ki Adalat.’

• A few days before the release of her film ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi,’ President Ram Nath Kovind watched a special screening of it at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre; where he also felicitated the cast and crew of the film.

• On 15 January 2020, Kangana added another feather to her cap after launching her production company, Manikarnika Films at Pali Hills in Mumbai. Kangana’s sister Rangoli Chandel, while sharing the news on her Twitter handle, tweeted,
  

  This is Kangana’s studio in Pali Hill prime location in Mumbai; she saw this dream 10 years ago and today we also saw it, if people can achieve anything with honesty and truth why do people do choti moti bundlebazi and act so dishonest.”

  

• Kangana spearheaded the row over nepotism following Sushant Singh Rajput‘s death after he committed suicide on 14 June 2020. She blamed certain dominant lobbies in Bollywood for promoting nepotism and treating outsiders in the industry as outcasts. She was praised heavily on social media for leading the nepotism row to criticize such lobbies in the industry. Her Instagram followers were also increased after that.

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It is important to give talent their due. And if celebrities are struggling with personal and mental health issues, the media should try and emphasize with them, rather than making it difficult for them!

A post shared by Kangana Ranaut (@kanganaranaut) on Jun 15, 2020 at 2:44am PDT

• Amid the growing row between Kangana Ranaut and the Shiv Sena, her office in Mumbai was demolished by the BMC the day when she returned to Mumbai from Manali on 9 September 2020. By sharing the photos of her damaged office on Twitter, she captioned the photos as “Pakistan…” and “Babur and his army.”

• Minutes before her landing at the Mumbai airport on 9 September 2020, the Bombay High Court put a stay to the demolition work. Later, while taking a dig at the Maharashtra Chief Minister, she shared a video message on her Instagram account.

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Today, the Maharashtra Govt illegally broke down #KanganaRanaut’s house while she was on a flight to Mumbai, with only 24 hour notice. Completely illegal considering the Govt has banned demolitions due to Covid till September 30. This is what Fascism looks like.

A post shared by Kangana Ranaut (@kanganaranaut) on Sep 9, 2020 at 3:40am PDT

• In September 2024, she revealed in an interview that she was compelled to sell the office of her production house Manikarnika Films in Mumbai for Rs. 32 crore due to financial constraints due to the delay in the release of her film Emergency. She said,
  

  Naturally, my film was supposed to release. I put all my personal property on it. Now that it’s not released, so anyway, that’s what properties are for – for times of crisis.”

• In January 2025, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) wrote a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urging him to block the release of Kangana’s 2025 film Emergency. The SGPC claimed in its letter that the film “could potentially offend the sentiments of the Sikh community.”

• On 14 February 2025, Kangana opened her first restaurant in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, named The Mountain Story.