Kangana Ranaut Biography

Kangana Ranaut (born Kangana Amardeep Ranaut) is an Indian film actress. She has established a career in Bollywood and is one of the highest-paid actresses in India. Ranaut is

particularly known in the media for expressing her honest opinions in public and is frequently credited as one of the most fashionable Indian celebrities. She is the recipient of several awards, including three National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards in four categories.

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Kangana Ranaut Age

She was born on 23rd March 1986 in Bhambla, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is 33 years old as of 2019.

Kangana Ranaut Height

She has a standing height of 1.68m tall.

Kangana Ranaut’s Early life and background

Ranaut was born on 23 March 1986 at Bhambla (now Surajpur), a small town in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, into a Rajput family. Her mother, Asha Ranaut, is a school teacher, and her father, Amardeep Ranaut is a businessman. She has an elder sister, Rangoli, who as of 2014 works as her manager and a younger brother, Akshat. Her great-grandfather, Sarju Singh Ranaut, was a Member of the Legislative Assembly and her grandfather was an officer for the Indian Administrative Service.[8] She grew up in a joint family at their ancestral haveli (mansion) in Bhambla, and described her childhood as “simple and happy”.

According to Ranaut, she was “stubborn and rebellious” while growing up: “If my father would gift my brother a plastic gun and get a doll for me, I would not accept that. I questioned the discrimination.” She did not subscribe to the stereotypes that were expected of her and experimented with fashion from a young age, often pairing up accessories and clothes that would seem “bizarre” to her neighbours. Ranaut was educated at the DAV School in Chandigarh, where she pursued science as her core subject, remarking that she was “very studious” and “always paranoid about results”.She initially intended to become a doctor on the insistence of her parents.

However, a failed unit test in chemistry during her twelfth grade led Ranaut to reconsider her career prospects and despite preparing for the All India Pre Medical Test, she did not turn up for the exam. Determined to find her “space and freedom”, she relocated to Delhi at the age of sixteen. Her decision not to pursue medicine led to constant feuding with her parents and her father refused to sponsor a pursuit he considered to be aimless. In Delhi, Ranaut was unsure which career to choose; the Elite Modelling Agency were impressed by her looks and suggested that the model for them. She took on a few modeling assignments, but generally disliked the career as she found “no scope for creativity”.

Ranaut decided to shift focus towards acting and joined the Asmita Theatre Group, where she trained under the theatre director Arvind Gaur. She participated in Gaur’s theatre workshop at the India Habitat Centre, acting in several of his plays, including the Girish Karnad-scripted Taledanda. During a performance, when one of the male actors went missing, Ranaut played his part along with her original role of a woman. A positive reaction from the audience prompted her to relocate to Mumbai to pursue a career in film and she enrolled herself for a four-month acting course in Asha Chandra’s drama school.

Ranaut struggled with her meager earnings during this period, eating only “bread and aachar (pickle)”. Refusing her father’s financial assistance led to a rift in their relationship which she later regretted. Her relatives were unhappy with her decision to enter the film-making industry, and they did not correspond with her for several years. She reconciled with them after the release of Life in a… Metro in 2007.

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Kangana Ranaut Family

She comes from Rajput family. Her mother, Asha Ranaut, is a Sanskrit teacher, and her father, is a businessman. She has two siblings, one younger brother, and one elder sister.

Kangana Ranaut Education

She schooled at the DAV School in Chandigarh, where she pursued science as her core subject. She originally wanted to become a doctor on the demand of her parents.

Kangana Ranaut Career

She began her career from a theatre in Delhi with Asmita Theatre Group. Arvind Gaur trained her who was a theatre director. She played her first play with Arvind Gaur named Taledanda.Then Ranaut joined Asha Chandra’s course in 2004 to get ready for Bollywood. After that, she came to Mumbai to try her luck in movies. In September 2005, Anurag Basu saw her at a cafe in Mumbai and offered her the lead role for his movie Gangster. It became a success at the box office. Then she did a film Woh Lamhe. She then starred in films Life In A Metro, Shakalaka Boom Boom in the year 2007.

Next, in the year 2008, she starred in the film Fashion, which gave her the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Ranaut lives in Mumbai with her sister Rangoli, who was the victim of an acid attack in 2006. She makes yearly visits to her hometown of Bhambla. A practicing Hindu, Ranaut follows the teachings of the spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda and considers meditation to be “the highest form of worshipping God”.She practices vegetarianism and was listed as “India’s hottest vegetarian” in a poll conducted by PETA in 2013.

Since 2009, Ranaut has been studying the dance form of Kathak from the Nateshwar Nritya Kala Mandir. She has said that the technical process of filmmaking is of tremendous interest to her, and to better her understanding of it Ranaut enrolled in a two-month screenplay writing course at the New York Film Academy in 2014. In an interview with Filmfare, she said that despite her stardom, she wants to lead a normal life: “I don’t want to lose my rights as a common person to learn and grow”.

Kangana Ranaut Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of around US$ 13million.

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