The highly anticipated period drama
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi controversy doesn't seem to have an end in sight. On Friday the lead actress Kangana stated that
Sonu Sood has left the film. When
Sonu Sood walked out of the film, Kangana said that Sonu had
"vehemently denied to work under a woman director."On Saturday after the Kangana allegation
Sonu Sood reacted to it saying that Kangana is using her
"woman card, the victim card" he also said that
"the gender of the director is not the issue"."Kangana is a dear friend and she will always remain one. But, this constantly playing the woman card, the victim card and making this entire issue about male chauvinism is ridiculous. The gender of the director is not the issue. Competence is. Let's not confuse the two. I've worked with Farah Khan (for Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer Happy New Year) who's a competent woman director and Farah and I had a great professional equation, and we are still the best of friends. That's all I would like to say." he added.
Kangana also commented for the Sonu inappropriate look for the role saying that "He himself wrote his scenes of Kushtiblike Dangal, which were never in the script. He and director shot a lot of stuff which was never in the script and writers discarded those. is it my fault? Am I writing the film? He wanted the producers to retain the kushti portions as he made the body for it for 4 months. How did I know that is happening behind my back. When writers saw the film they said they don't want it."
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