Kangana Ranaut Compares Her Film 'Emergency' To Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' & Shakespearean Tragedy Macbeth

Kangana Ranaut has been promoting her upcoming film 'Emergency', in which she stars as former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Ranaut has also directed the film

Kangana Ranaut has been promoting her upcoming film 'Emergency', in which she stars as former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Ranaut has also directed the film

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New Delhi: Kangana Ranaut has been promoting her upcoming film 'Emergency', in which she stars as former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandh. Kangana has also directed the film. Recently, in an interview with India Today, the actor spoke about whether the figure of Indira Gandhi can be compartmentalized into 'good' or 'bad'.

Emergency being like Oppenheimer

She also added that a 'close comparison of her film can be made with Oppenheimer'.

When Kangana was asked about a 'touchy topic', she said, "I don't know why people are so uncomfortable with truth. As if it does not stand there glaring at us evidently, and so obviously. To me Ms. Gandhi is what she is and we cannot compartmentalize people as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. If you look from that perspective this film will open many doors for you but at the same time, a close comparison to draw with my film is maybe Oppenheimer.”

Like Macbeth

"You can't really decide whether to root for him, whether he is getting manipulated or he is manipulative. But aren't all of us like that? Life is not so limited. It demands you to be so much and at times to be the person you don't want to be. That is why I call it a Shakespearean tragedy. It is so much like Macbeth. Macbeth was destined to be the king, and when he becomes the king by killing the king the dagger follows him. His conscience follows him… The idea of Emergency is that the best of us can become a victim of hubris,” the ‘Queen’ actor added.

Meanwhile, Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' chronicled the life of nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer. The film is set in the World War years and how fear of the testing of the atomic bomb and the aftermath of its effects, knowigly tested it anyway. 

J Robert Oppenheimer helped invent nuclear weapons during WWII. This Nolan period-history drama won 7 Oscars earlier this year, including Best Picture, and Best Director.

Kangana's film 'Emergency' released in theatres on September 6, 2024.