Annu Kapoor Clarifies ‘Who is Kangana Ranaut’ Remark And Apologies For His Statement; Says ‘Please Forgive Me…’
June 24, 2024Bollywood’s legendary actor Annu Kapoor and newly turned politician Kangana Ranaut are presently having a war of words online. The veteran actor recently made a remark about the actress in a press conference where he asked ‘Who is Kangana Ranaut’. Later the actress slammed Annu Kapoor for his statement and claimed that few people have the tendency to hate successful women. Now to clarify his stand, Annu wrote a long post on ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter).
In the post, he wrote “Dear Sister Kangana, I am extracting some meaning from the answers to the questions posed by the media, so I thought I should clarify some facts. “Every woman is respectable and worthy to me, so I can never disrespect any woman. Not knowing the system or laws of any country can lead to mistakes and punishment, but not knowing a particular person, place, or thing is not an error or a crime.”
He continued, “Therefore, respected sister, I do not know you, hence you will not include this in the category of disrespecting women’s dignity. When the media asks questions, understand that they want the spice of current affairs, which they got from my frankness. I have no connection with politics and religion and since I have nothing to do with religion, I have no connection with unrighteousness either.”
“I neither thought nor said any wrong or derogatory words. I am responsible for what I speak and I am not responsible for what others understand,” the actor added.
Annu apologised, “But still, if you have become angry with anything I have said, please forgive me. May you achieve success in your goal. I wish the same good wish for all of us to be more aware of our duties than our rights.”
Earlier during the press conference of Hamare Baarah, when asked about Kangana Ranaut’s slap incident, he said “Yeh Kangana ji kaun hain? Please batao na kaun hain? Zaahir hai aap pooch rahe hain toh koi bahut badi heroine hongi? Sundar hain kya?” (Who is this Kangana? Is she a big heroine? Is she beautiful?)”
Later, Kangana took to her Instagram stories and wrote “Do you agree with Annu Kapoor ji that we tend to hate a successful woman, hate her more if she is beautiful, and hate her even more passionately if she is powerful? Is it true?”
On the work front, Annu Kapoor was last seen in Hamare Baarah. The movie also featured Parth Samthaan, Ashwini Kalsekar, Manoj Joshi, Rahul Bagga and Paritosh Tripathi in key roles.
