Sandeep Reddy Vanga got a response from Kiran Rao after he questioned the filmmaker for not speaking against Aamir Khan’s film Dil, but criticising his Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh. Rao, who is currently promoting her upcoming directorial Laapataa Ladies, agreed that maybe Vanga’s statements against her helped in spreading the word about her film, indirectly.
During an interview with Connect FM Canada, Rao was asked if Vanga talking about her and then she responding to his statements helped her attract some eyeballs to herself and her upcoming film. She said, “I did feel like I had to respond and I did, so that’s out there. I guess if people have seen it, now they know who I am and that I have a film coming on March 1.”
After the success of his much-debated film Animal, Sandeep Reddy Vanga, while reacting to the criticism his films attracted, told Dainik Bhaskar, “Some people don’t understand what they are saying. One assistant director showed me the article from this superstar’s second ex-wife where she was saying that Baahubali and Kabir Singh promote misogyny, promote stalking. I think she doesn’t understand the difference between stalking and approaching. I want to tell that woman that go and ask Aamir Khan about the song ‘Khambe Jaisi Khadi Hai’, what was that?”
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Kiran Rao defended Aamir Khan and reminded everyone of his apology for Dil. She also told Vanga, through her interview with Quint, “Honestly, if Mr Reddy has something to tell Aamir, he should do it man to man. I am not responsible for Aamir’s work or Aamir Khan.”
Rao has earlier directed Dhobi Ghaat and is open to acting as well, provided filmmakers have a good role for her.
She shared, “I have been telling people to give me a good role, and I will be very happy to act. In college, I did a lot of acting actually and that’s one of the reasons that I was drawn to films. It was always all the allied arts that I was always interested in, like music, performance, colours, and set design. So when I studied film at Jamia, I felt I could create a story. That is why I didn’t go into acting.”
The filmmaker added that when she entered the film industry, women were expected to be conventionally beautiful to become actors. Rao said, “In my times, people who looked like me, didn’t choose acting. It was not the time to think about acting when I came to Mumbai and started working.” On being pointed out how Om Puri and Irrfan Khan were successful actors despite not being conventionally good-looking, she said, “It was different for women, though it is slowly changing. Earlier, it was all about how a woman should look perfect, with long straight hair and everything. How would you put a person with glasses in the film?”
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