His directorial venture Simran has been mired in controversies, be it the fight over writing credits or the focus on leading lady Kangana Ranaut’s personal life, but director Hansal Mehta says the actor is not doing anything for publicity.
Recently Ranaut appeared on the show Aap Ki Adalat and talked about her alleged relationship with Hrithik Roshan, Aditya Pancholi and Adhyayan Suman.
Mehta, however, is not bothered by the focus on Ranaut as he believes she is not someone to back out when asked about her life.
The director said: “Why [is it that] every time she is on a public platform [some] one asks her about her personal life? She is not somebody who will back out from speaking about anything that is asked to her. She bares her soul. [I] don’t see it as publicity.
“She is an individual who needs to be respected for being fiercely independent in the choices that she makes. I am not sad [for the film]. The film is special and it will remain that way.”
Ranaut-Roshan’s alleged love story has turned out to be one of the dirtiest squabbles, with both of them slapping legal notices on to each other last year.
In May this year, writer Apurva Asrani had slammed Ranaut for discrediting his work on Simran when she claimed that she developed the story from a one-line script.
In the film’s first poster, Ranaut was credited as the ‘additional story and dialogue writer’ with her name appearing before Asrani’s. It was later rectified with the producer calling it a printing mistake.
Ranaut has also admitted to an affair with the much-married Pancholi, accusing him of abusing her when she was a minor.
When asked if he is upset that his film has been sidelined due to controversies, Mehta says, “I don’t think so. When the film will be out, it will speak for itself.”
Mehta says every actor has a different style of working and he supports it as the aim is to eventually make a better film.
“Every actor has a process and as a director your job is to aid that process and create an environment that blossoms to its fullest. My job is to help them in their process.”
Simran, which is currently playing in UAE cinemas, revolves around a Gujarati housemaid in the US, who steers towards a life of crime.
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