Kangana Ranaut's 5 films that dealt with mental health issues

Kangana Ranaut is one of versatile Bollywood actors and has gained numerous accolades in her career span of 13 years in Bollywood. She has garnered many National Film Awards since her debut with Gangster to her last award for Queen in 2015. Many of her movies saw her essaying role of a mental disorder character. Let us have a look at movies where she appeared in roles with challenging mental health issues.

Gangster (2006)

Alcoholism - 19-year-old Kangana debuted in 2006 with Anurag Basu's Gangster portraying role of an alcoholic. She received many accolades for her debut performance as well as 'Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut' among or awards. Gangster included cast of Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja in pivotal roles. It was a romantic film rumoredly based on gangster Abu Salem and her girlfriend Monica Bedi, but one has officially confirmed regarding similarities.  

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Woh Lamhe (2006)

Schizophrenia - Directed by Mohit Suri, movie stars Shiney Ahuja and Kangana Ranaut essaying role of a filmmaker and a troubled actress respectively. Apparently, movie was based on story of Bollywood actress Parveen Babi who was suffering from schizophrenia. Ranaut’s performance is said to be one of her best performances.

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Fashion (2008)

Substance abuse - Kangana Ranaut's bold performance as a troubled drug addict in modelling industry was surreal. movie was directed by Madhur Bhandarkar and included Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse, Arjan Bajwa, and Arbaaz Khan in lead roles. Manikarnika actor won numerous awards for her portrayal in this movie. 

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Simran (2017)

Gambling addiction - Directed by Hansal Mehta, movie seems to be loosely based on life of Sandeep Kaur, an NRI who was a four-time robbery convict. cast includes Kangana Ranaut, Sohum Shah and Esha Tewari among ors. story captures life of Praful and her struggle with gambling addiction.

Judgementall Hai Kya (2019)

Acute psychosis - movie received a huge backlash from psychiatric society for movie's prior name as Mental hai kya. makers n had to change title to Judgementall Hai Kya. Directed by Prakash Kovelamudi, movie was produced by Ekta Kapoor. film's storyline features Bobby, a dubbing artist, who was diagsed with acute psychosis at a young and how her life changes after new tenants come to her house.

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Kangana Ranaut Latest movies

Kangana would be next seen in Panga releasing on January 24, 2020, alongside Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, and Neena Gupta in pivotal roles. Queen star will be seen in ar film titled Thalaivi which is a multilingual film whose production will start after Diwali 2019. Recently, Kangana Ranaut released a smashing teaser of her upcoming movie Dhaakad, a female-led action film releasing in 2020.