Kangana Ranaut's 'Emergency' banned in Bangladesh, source says 'The ban is less about the content of the film and more about...'

Kangana Ranaut’s directorial Emergency is releasing in cinemas on January 17, but has now been banned in Bangladesh.

“The decision to halt the screening of Emergency in Bangladesh is tied to the current strained relations between India and Bangladesh. The ban is less about the content of the film and more about the ongoing political dynamics between the two nations,” a source said.

Kangana Ranaut is not only one of the finest actresses in the country, but has also turned a filmmaker. She made her directorial debut with Manikarnika in 2019 and is now gearing up for the release of her new film Emergency. She essays the role of the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. It’s a historic and complex character to essay.

In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actress and filmmaker spoke about the challenges to direct a film based on the national emergency that was imposed in 1975, taking the director’s chair once again, and if she sees any similarities between her and Gandhi.

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She said, “Mrs Gandhi was surprisingly a very unconfident person. She was very vulnerable, she kept chewing her Lower lip and lip twitching, eye twitching. She was very petite as a person. I come from a different background. I come from a middle class family from a village you have never heard of. She’s the Prime Minister’s daughter who has studied in Geneva, London. She never had the confidence to speak in the parliament.”

Ranaut added, “She was called the Goongi Gudiyaa for the longest time. Whereas I have been always very confident. Whether I know English or not, I have to speak English. (Laughs). I never second-guess what other person is thinking about me. It’s only about what I think about them. She was very much concerned about that. Later, there was an enormous shift and she went to an another extreme but that’s another story.”