Hansal Mehta is an Indian film director, writer, actor, and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He started her career in television with the show Khana Khazana and later moved on to make movies like Jayate, Chhal, and many more.
Filmmaker, Hansal Mehta recalled the time when he was working with Kangana Ranaut on Simran and how they could not get along. Simran was based on the real-life story of Sandeep Kaur, who robbed banks after losing money in gambling. Their fallout, which happened while they were making the movie, affected the film badly. Though he affirmed, that she is a good actor, he maintained they did not gel well and that’s the major reason the movie fell out with the audience.
Apurva Asrani, the writer of the movie, adds that Kangana had taken over as the de facto director of the movie after Hansal quit the project and called him, “spineless” and “coward.”
Hansal reminisces, “Edit nahi takeover kia tha usne, to be fair to her, but edit take over karne ke liye kuch than ahi kyunki material hi vahi tha jo usne shoot karvaya tha (She did not take over the edit, to be fair to her, but there was nothing to take over in the edit. We only had the material she had shot,” he said in a recent chat with Mashable India.
The director also adds, “She is a very talented actor, she is a very good actor, really really good actor who, I feel has limited herself by making films about herself. You need not make all the characters become what you want to believe you are.”
