Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut said that she isn’t enjoying her first stint as a Member of Parliament from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. She said that she isn’t quite cut out for public service, as she is a very ‘selfish’ person who enjoys her luxuries. She also rejected the idea of taking her political career to the next level, and said that she hopes ‘God doesn’t make me the Prime Minister’. In an interview with the spiritual guru Atman in Ravi (AIR), she said that she was a staunch atheist in her youth, and that her spiritual journey has been gradual.
Kangana also expressed surprise at some of the issues that people approach her with these days. Asked if she has taken to politics like a fish to water, she said, “I’m getting a hang of it. I wouldn’t say that I am enjoying it. It’s a very different kind of work, more like social service. This hasn’t been my background. I’ve never thought of serving people. I’ve fought for women’s rights, but that’s different… Somebody’s naali is broken, and I’m like, ‘But I am an MP and these people are coming to me with panchayat-level problems’. They don’t care. When they see you, they come to you with problems like broken roads, and I tell them that’s a state government issue, and they say, ‘You have money, you use your own money’.”
During her tenure as a BJP MP, Kangana has been rebuked a few times for not toeing the party line. She admitted as much in an interview with The Lallantop, and said that she received a call from party president JP Nadda when she posted comments about farm laws on social media. “I take my words back,” Kangana said after the party distanced itself from her comments.
Asked if she has greater political ambitions, such as becoming Prime Minister one day, Kangana said that she prays that this doesn’t happen. “I don’t think I’m competent to be the PM of India, nor do I have the necessary passion or inclination. Social work has never been my background. I’ve lived a very selfish kind of life. I want to have a big house, a big car, I want to have diamonds. I want to look good. That’s the kind of life I’ve lived. This is a kind of genesis for me. I don’t know what purpose God chose me for, but I don’t see my life as this grand sacrifice… I don’t fancy that kind of life, and I don’t wish that upon anyone… I don’t have it in me.”
Kangana has struggled on the film front as well. Her last movie, Emergency, flopped with just Rs 20 crore at the box office. She played the late PM Indira Gandhi in the film, which she also directed. Some of her recent films, such as Dhaakad and Tejas, have been among the biggest bombs in the history of Indian cinema.
