Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor creates quite a controversy every time she appears on Karan Johar’s chat show Koffee with Karan. Her stint in the last season made Rishi Kapoor angry as she made some rude remarks about Ranbir Kapoor. And this time she has offended Kangana Ranaut it seems. While Ranaut didn’t appear on the chat show, she seems to have been kept updated with all the statements that have been made, for she expressed her dismay at Sonam’s recent comments on good-looking actors.
In Koffee with Karan’s latest season, Sonam came on the show with her father, Anil Kapoor and took digs at her contemporaries and made several statements that even appalled the host. She said, “If you’re not good looking, they think you are a good actor. Just because you look ordinary and you talk loud doesn’t mean you’re a good actor.” While many in Bollywood might be taken aback with this statement, it is only Ranaut who has reacted strongly to these not so humble words, reported Bollywood Life.
“Sonam has said that people who act well are ugly. So do I get the crown of the ugliest person? After watching Queen, people have been telling me that I act really well, so according to Sonam, I am the ugliest actor in Bollywood today. And well, I accept that with all the gratitude and humbleness,” she said.
Ranaut also went on to say that it’s time that real people grace the screen, as opposed to Sonam, who thinks that only good looking people can act well. “I feel that Sonam really needs to get her facts right about acting. Actors aren’t models – it’s a different technique to convey expressions and emotions and it has got nothing to do with looks. And we should have a variety of actors just for the sake of casting. We don’t have right casting in our country. It’s high time we get rid of this six-pack brigade and glamorous looking people. We should get real people in because the stories we show on-screen are about real people. And that’s how the movies will be genuine and heartfelt. Story telling needs to get honest.”
Ranaut also held Sonam responsible for cinema not being so genuine today. “If our cinema is not good today, people like Sonam should be held responsible. There are people out there, who might not fit into that Vogue kind of space, but they have all the right to be an actor,” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 6th, 2014.
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