Published 14:13 IST, July 20th 2020
Taapsee Pannu snipes at Kangana Ranaut's 'R&D department'; Team Kangana hits back
Taapsee Pannu poked fun at Kangana Ranaut's 'R&D department' and called it as the reason for the latter attacking her. Kangana's team hits back on Twitter.
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Taapsee Pannu and some of her peers did not take Kangana Ranaut’s allegations on Nation Wants To Know with Republic Media Network lightly and responded with strong statements. The former continued to poke fun at Kangana’s statements, particularly over being called a ‘B-grade actress’ The Pink star also felt stated that Kangana was targeting her because the latter’s ‘Research & Development team’ faltered, while Kangana’s team stated that there was no comparison between Kangana and the rest of the actresses.
A netizen asked Taapsee why ‘Kangana was behind’ her, and that calling her ‘B grade’ did not ‘make sense’ because she had ‘most work’ among the Bollywood stars. Taapsee quipped that her ‘R& D Department’ might have faltered.
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When another person asked her the same question, Taapsee wrote that she hit it where it ‘hurt.’
Taapsee made more such statements around the ‘B grade’ reference, how ‘better and not bitter’ humour made her ‘sane’, as well taking a dig at the ‘Bollywood mafia’ for ‘discrediting’ the actor only because she did not follow Kangana’s ‘agenda. The Thappad star also stated that she felt the need to ‘set the record straight’ and not using ‘scars as battle marks to attract sympathy and spew hatred’ as Vir Das and Sayani Gupta also responded.
Kangana’s team, however, hit back. They poked fun at a netizen’s post mocking Taapsee’s statement that someone could be ‘scared’ to enter the industry next time, due to the ‘negative’ portrayal of how outsiders were treated, while herself speaking about losing films due to nepotism.
In another post, the team responded to a netizen’s post on how the comparison between the likes of Kangana and Taapsee, Swara Bhasker and Shruti Seth was not correct as Kangana was ‘talented and worked hard.’
The team asked why the actresses were compared to a ‘3 times national award winner, Padma Shri recipient, a successful writer, filmmaker’. Calling them those ‘struggling to find work’, they wrote that they could never have ‘experiences or enemies’ like Kangana and Sushant.
In the Republic TV interview, Kangana questioned Taapsee and Swara’s fondness for Karan Johar, at a time they had ‘lost out on work’ to star kids like Alia Bhatt and Ananya Panday, despite being ‘better looking’ and ‘better actresses’ than them. Taapsee, in an interview with an entertainment portal, termed the allegations as ‘disheartening’, stating that she was not ‘struggling’ for work and that she did not want to ‘take advantage’ of someone’s death for ‘personal agenda.’
Updated 14:13 IST, July 20th 2020