WATCH: Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Thalaivi’ Team Pays A Special Tribute To Mahatma Gandhi On the Occasion Of Gandhi Jayanti 2020

Kangana Ranaut also resumed her work for ‘Thalaivi’ after a seven-month-long hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Image: @kanganaranaut/Instagram)

New Delhi: India celebrates Gandhi Jayanti every year on October 2 to mark the birth anniversary of the Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Renowned for his Nonviolent movement worldwide, the birth anniversary of the great soul is also celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence. Many Bollywood celebrities including Anushka Sharma, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Priyanka Chopra and others poured in their heartfelt wishes for the ‘Mahatma’ on his 151^st birth anniversary. Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Thalaivi’ team, however, played a special tribute to Mahatma Gandhi with a video. Taking to her Instagram, the ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ actress wrote while sharing the picture, “Celebrating 151 years of the man who taught us the value of fighting for truth with non violence. Proud to be born as the daughter of this nation! Proud to celebrate the father of the nation..#MahatmaGandhi #gandhijayanti #thalaivi”

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Celebrating 151 years of the man who taught us the value of fighting for truth with non violence. Proud to be born as the daughter of this nation! Proud to celebrate the father of the nation. . #MahatmaGandhi #gandhijayanti #thalaivi

A post shared by Kangana Ranaut (@kanganaranaut) on Oct 1, 2020 at 11:58pm PDT

The ‘Simran’ actress has been in the limelight a lot lately. The actress on Thursday (October 1) resumed her work after a seven-month-long hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The 'Queen' actor took to Twitter to share pictures of herself as she kicked off her work early morning and revealed to her fans that she is traveling to southern India for the shoot of 'Thalaivi.' "Dear friends today is a very special day, resuming work after 7 months, travelling to southern India for my most ambitious bilingual project THALAIVI Need your blessings in these testing times of a pandemic. P.S just clicked these morning selfies hope you all like them," she tweeted.

Dear friends today is a very special day, resuming work after 7 months, travelling to southern India for my most ambitious bilingual project THALAIVI, need your blessings in these testing times of a pandemic. P.S just clicked these morning selfies hope you all like them ❤️ pic.twitter.com/drptQUzvXK

— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) October 1, 2020

‘Thaliavi’ is a biopic of late political leader J. Jayalalithaa. Helmed by AL Vijay, the movie has been written by 'Bahubali' and 'Manikarnika' writer KV Vijayendra Prasad and 'The Dirty Picture' and 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbai' writer Rajat Arora. The movie was scheduled to hit theatres on June 26, 2020, but would not be able to see the light of the day owing to the shuttering of movie halls due to coronavirus outbreak in the country. Stay tuned for the latest updates!