{"id":1722,"date":"2016-07-25T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:59:28","slug":"petitions-and-pettiness-the-kangana-ranaut-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Petitions and Pettiness: The Kangana Ranaut Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span><\/p><\/div>

n today\u2019s breaking (and totally not ridiculous) news, Kangana Ranaut refused to sign<\/span><\/a> Shabana Azmi\u2019s petition supporting Deepika Padukone against Karni Sena\u2019s death threats, choosing this as the most appropriate moment to remind the world about her fight with Hrithik Roshan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Her protest comes at an important time; a time that we, as a nation, were beginning to forget about the whole Hrithik-Kangana thing. So Kangana<\/span><\/a> decided, enough of Deepika and Padmavati<\/span><\/a> and all that nonsense, let the nation not forget what is of prime importance — that her relationship with Hrithik was the most popular piece<\/span><\/a> of \u201centertainment news\u201d India has seen in a couple of years. It was so popular the government almost planned to ride Kangana-Hrithik headlines to remind people to link their Aadhar<\/span><\/a> cards to stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

I\u2019d like to state here that I completely support Kangana\u2019s totally-not-petty move. My support comes less out of concern for her personal feelings, but more out of the fear that I\u2019ll one day be trapped in a dark room with a serial killer, and Kangana will be helping him sharpen his knives in the event that I don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

But Kangana, you\u2019re in need of a bit of a newsflash, and I don\u2019t mean the sight of Arnab Goswami\u2019s privates. Listen to this carefully: Fighting with someone does not mean that you become a supporter of groups that threaten to dismember body parts of another someone. See, when it comes to dismembering<\/span><\/a>, kidnapping and other rough stuff, people put their shit aside. It\u2019s a normal human response. I could fight with my partner about pet duties, or my ex about cheating on me, or even my building watchman about water supply, but the day that person has a fatwa issued against them, I would probably not remind them about how they didn\u2019t clean up after the dog. No, I fight against the fatwa. It\u2019s called adulting. You should try it sometime. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

After months of playing Mother Superior and threatening to expose the inner workings of the nepotistic and evil industry that is Bollywood, this move, I must say, is a severe let-down. It\u2019s like you came in promising to be Bollywood\u2019s Million Dollar Baby and left us with a re-enactment of Mean Girls. Remember Kangana, petty tiffs may come and go but radical outfits<\/span><\/a> last forever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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