Kangana Ranaut has been waiting the release of her much-awaited film Emergency. The film is based on the Emergency period Indian faced between 1975-1977, highlighting former Indan Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s role during during the controversial time. Not only is the actress playing the lead role in the film, but is also her first solo directorial film. As the release date of the film nears, certain groups are calling out for a ban on the film for portraying the Sikh community in a bag light.
Ranaut has now questioned why people are having issues with Emergency, days after receiving death threats. She even compared her upcoming political drama with Christopher Nolan-Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer and Shakespear’s Macbeth. While talking to India Today about the same, she was asked about filming a movie that is a ‘touchy topic’. Opening aup about the same she expressed that she was perplexed to know that people are “uncomfortable with truth.” She revealed that one can’t compartmentalize people into being good or bad. ALSO READ: Kangana Ranaut Purchases Office Space Worth A WHOPPING Rs 1.5 Cr In Mumbai Amid Reports Of Selling Her Bungalow
Quoted by the Hindustan Times, the filmmaker-turned-politician said, “I don't know why people are so uncomfortable with truth. As if it does not stand there glaring at us evidently, and so obviously. To me Ms. Gandhi is what she is and we cannot compartmentalize people as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. If you look from that perspective this film will open many doors for you but at the same time, a close comparison to draw with my film is maybe Oppenheimer.” ALSO READ: Kangana Ranaut REVEALS The One BIG Reason For Refusing Akshay Kumar's Films: We Want Integrity
Comparing her film to the Christopher Nolan directorial and Cillian Murphy starrer, she said that Indira Gandhi was complex just like Oppenheimer in the film. She expressed how life in general is not simple and people are often forced to act in ways that they don’t want to. The 38-year-old actress termed the film as a “Shakespearean tragedy” and stated that the happenings in Emergency are similar to Macbeth.
The Queen actress said, “You can't really decide whether to root for him, whether he is getting manipulated or he is manipulative. But aren't all of us like that? Life is not so limited. It demands you to be so much and at times to be the person you don't want to be. That is why I call it a Shakespearean tragedy. It is so much like Macbeth. Macbeth was destined to be the king, and when he becomes the king by killing the king the dagger follows him. His conscience follows him… The idea of Emergency is that the best of us can become a victim of hubris.”
For those who don’t know, set in World War II, Nolan’s film follows the life of physicist J Robert Oppenheimer also known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. He played a key role in developing nuclear weapons and dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Image Source: Instagram