Filmmaker Hansal Mehta and actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut, who as quickly as collaborated on the 2017 film Simran, locked horns on X over the Kunal Kamra controversy, which led to the current’s venue, The Habitat, getting vandalised by Shiv Sena goons. When an X client requested Hansal why he stayed mum when Kangana’s dwelling was bulldozed, he merely acknowledged that he didn’t know the main points of the incident. This, nonetheless, irked Kangana, who didn’t take prolonged to hearth potshots.
Kangana slams Hansal over demolition remark
In 2020, the BMC demolished a part of Kangana’s Bandra property over illegal constructing. When Hansal was requested why he didn’t enhance his voice once more then, the easiest way he’s doing it for Kamra, Hansal wrote, “Was her home vandalised. Did goons enter her premises? Did they do that to problem her freedom of expression or for alleged FSI violations? Please enlighten me. Maybe I don’t know the details.”
Get correctly shortly.
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) March 25, 2025
Kangana hit once more, stating, “They referred to as me names like h*******r, threatened me, served a discover late within the night time to my watchman and subsequent morning earlier than courts might open bulldozers demolished all the home. High court docket referred to as the demolition utterly unlawful. They laughed at it and raised a toast to my ache and public humiliation. It appears your insecurity and mediocrity has not solely made you bitter and silly nevertheless it had blinded you as properly, it’s not some third class sequence or atrocious movies that you simply make, don’t attempt to promote your dumb lies and agendas right here within the issues associated to my ordeals, keep out of it.”
The filmmaker merely replied, “Get properly quickly.”
What is the Kunal Kamra row?
Kunal Kamra had shared motion pictures of his stand-up current held at The Habitat venue in Mumbai. The venue was ransacked, following which police arrested 12 Shiv Sainiks for the vandalism. The standup artiste launched an announcement on his official social media cope with stating that he wouldn’t “apologise” for his act. Kamra moreover, in his reply to political leaders who “threatened” to point out him a lesson, acknowledged that the “inability to take a joke at the expense of a powerful public figure does not change` the nature of his right. He added that it is not against the law as far as his knowledge.”