Hansal Mehta Recalls ‘Painful Time’ With Kangana Ranaut On The Sets Of Simran,' Says 'She Began Directing Other Actors’

Hansal Mehta told that though he holds no bitterness for the ‘Queen’ actress and even enjoyed her company off the sets, the working experience was painful. Read on.

New Delhi: Hansal Mehta, the director of the popular web series ‘Scam 1992’ recently opened up on a lot of happening stuff including the tremendous success of his biographical web series on Harshad Mehta to the ‘painful time’ working with Kangana Ranaut in ‘Simran’. While interacting with Huffington Post, the ‘Aligarh’ director opened up on his experience of working with Kangana in his 2017 film ‘Simran’. ‘My Broken Dream Smiling In Your Face Sanjay Raut,’ Kangana Ranaut Shares Pictures Of Her Decked Up Property That Was Razed By BMC Hansal Mehta told that though he holds no bitterness for the ‘Queen’ actress and even enjoyed her company off the sets, the working experience was painful. He was quoted saying by the portal, “I’ll be honest with you, I enjoyed Kangana’s company outside the set and I had a great time with her. We used to go out and she would always ask me to choose restaurants. We’d have a great meal together, party together, I would choose good wine, all that was fun. (But on the sets) It went out of my control completely. That’s not a happy situation to be in. Other than dealing with the fact that she (Kangana) completely took charge of the set and began directing other actors, I lost a lot of money too. Which had nothing to do with her. Financially it hit me badly. I was stupid enough to sign some papers when the film was stuck for some reason, which got me into a financial and legal tangle. So almost a year-and-a-half, there was arbitration going on in court. I’ve sort of emerged back. You have to go through what you have to go through. It was tough.” The director added, “I sometimes wish I never made it. There was no need. It was an unnecessary aberration in my career. It makes me sad, it could’ve been a much better film. It had the potential to be a great film. It used to sadden me but now it’s…It was a painful time. Every day. Beyond that, it’s difficult to speak about it. I don’t even revisit it. There was a time after the film released, I went through a very low phase mentally. Took therapy. The film affected my mental health. I went into a shell, I did not want to meet people. I was in a period of very low self-esteem.” His recent release ‘Scam 1992’ is receiving a lot of praise from the audience as well as the critics. It is the biography of the ‘Big Bull’ of stock market Harshad Mehta. The series has been adapted from journalist Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu's book ‘The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away’. It is based on the 1992 Indian stock market scam. ‘Scam 1992’ stars Pratik Gandhi, Sharib Hashmi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Hemant Kher and Nikhil Dwivedi among others and is available on SonyLIV. the series went on garner a 9.6 IMDb rating out of 10. Kangana Ranaut Takes A Jibe At Aamir Khan In Recent Tweet Follow this space for more updates.