I’m a 'muhfat', not a snob: Kangna Ranaut

Actress Kangna Ranaut’s known for her ‘wild ways’ and her ‘high-handed attitude’. But while the actress doesn’t care about being labelled with such “uncalled-for-tags”, what does irk her are malicious rumours of her being called ‘unprofessional’ that she believes are being circulated by her detractors. “Would I ever have so many films in hand, if I was unprofessional?” she quips, referring to her bulky film kitty.

As for her attitude, she says, “Well, I am a single girl from a non-filmi background with no family in this city. You have to be tough to survive here or else you will have people walking all over you. My tough attitude is often misconstrued as arrogance, but I’m nothing like it. I am a muhfat, but not a snob.”

That’s quite unlike her recent portrayal of the live-wire Tanu in her recent Tanu Weds Manu that’s helped the star finally break away from her dark and intense image. “Yes, a depressed Kangna on screen is a thing of the past,” she laughs. And though Ranaut does admit that it was a welcome change to play a character closer to her real self, she is quick to clarify that she’s “not half the wild-child that I played on screen or that I’m made out to be!”

And contrary to her image, she adds, that she “doesn’t believe in fast love either”.”I may not have been lucky so far, but I still believe in eternal love and the Mughal-e-Azam kind of romance. I feel that in matters of the heart, I belong to that old era. I relate more to Anarkali than any modern girl I’ve played on screen,” she says. So does she hope to play Anarkali on the screen too someday? “Of course! Anarkali is a dream role and I would love to do a period film like Mughal-e-Azam. History excites me and there’s a certain visual appeal to films set in that era,” she says excitedly.

The draw is in real life too. “I would love to be romanced like they did back then. The women were so vulnerable, yet strong and just as bold as we are today. And they were courted in such a chivalrous way! I would love my man to woo me with flowers and poetry too,” she adds.