Kangana Ranaut is now all set to debut as director with the flick Teju, and not just that, she will also be playing an 80 year old woman in the film.
At an internal, Kangana said,”Yes, I will play an 80 year old woman in my first directional, Teju. She is a warm, vibrant woman, full of life, who doesn’t feel old at all.” Her character may have her legs hanging in grave but she is still not ready to leave the world. ” These are questions that all of us ask ourselves and each other from time to time. We will explore them in a light-hearted manner in my film dappled with the sunshine of Teju’s personality.
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Teju will showcase Himachali life and culture which have largely gone unexplored in our mainstream cinema as filmmakers only use my part of the country as a beautiful setting for their songs. My film will be a visual treat but it will also give you a glimpse into my life before Bollywood, into the real Kangana whom few have known in all these years,” adds Kangana.She will be producing the film under her newly launched production company, Manikarnika Films, which is a joint collaboration with Shailesh Singh.
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The film will go on floors in December and will be shot in Himalayas. On work front, Kangana is busy with the dubbing of her next film Simran, and is also simultaneously doing the pre-production work for Manikarnika. These films are shrouded by controversies. The unsolved mystery of Simran’s real writer, Ketan Mehta has also filed a lawsuit against Kangana, for hijacking his film based on Rani Lakshmi Bai.