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Gained and lost 20 kg: Kangana Ranaut shares ‘Thalaivi’ glimpses

The National Award-winning actress revealed that she gained 20 kg and lost all of it, in just a matter of a few months, for this epic biopic.

New Delhi: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut is celebrating her birthday today. Ahead of the Thalaivi trailer release, the actress shared shared posts about her body transformation journey through the course of filming Thalaivi.

Sharing pictures from her different looks in the film, Kangana wrote: “One day to go for the trailer launch of Thalaivi. Gaining 20 kgs and losing it all back within a span of few months wasn’t the only challenge that I faced while filming this epic biopic, wait is getting over just in few hours Jaya will be your forever.”

A day before the release of the trailer of ‘Thalaivi’, Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut on Monday piqued the curiosity of her fans by dropping an intriguing teaser from the biographical-drama.

The ‘Queen’ star took to Twitter and shared a teaser that chronicles the life of Tamil Nadu’s actor-turned-politician J. Jayalalithaa.

The thirty-second teaser shows Kangana as Jayalalithaa in her younger days when she was an actor, who then transforms into a superstar and a successful politician.

The video has a voice-over that narrates the story of the former Tamil Nadu CM, it says, ” They said junior artists’ daughter will become a junior artist, and I became a heroine. They cut my roles in films and said you are nothing without Jr NTR, but the audience made me a superstar. They were never aware that Jaya, will come out of film politics and will run the politics. The men said a lot, but the one who listened to her heart, I am Jaya.”

Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut has managed to bag her fourth National Film Award as she has won the ‘Best actor (female)’ award for her movies ‘Manikarnika-The Queen of Jhansi’ and ‘Panga’.

One of the country’s most eminent awards in entertainment, National Film Award announced to honour the ‘Queen’ star for her much-acclaimed movies ‘Manikarnika- The Queen of Jhansi’ and ‘Panga’ with the ‘Best Actor (female) accolade in the 67th edition of the awards announced virtually on Monday. The 67th version of the National Film Awards was initially going to be held in May last year but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kangana who was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India, for her contribution to arts, in 2020, has been the recipient of three National Film Awards: Best Supporting Actress for ‘Fashion’, and Best Actress for ‘Queen’, and ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’.