Pakistani actress Nausheen Shah recently expressed her desire to meet Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, making headlines with her candid remarks on the talk show ‘Hadh Kar Di’. When asked which Bollywood actor she would like to meet, Nausheen didn't mince words.
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Nausheen's initial statement was quite straightforward. She stated, “The way she says sh** about my country, the way she says a lot of crap about the Pakistan army, I salute her audacity. She has no knowledge but talks about the country, that too someone else’s country. Focus on your own country, focus on your acting… focus on your controversies and ex-boyfriends and whatnot.”
Expanding on her thoughts, Nausheen questioned Kangana's knowledge and remarked, “How do you know people are mistreated in Pakistan? How do you know about the Pakistan army? How do you know about our agencies? We ourselves don’t know, the agencies are in our country, the army is our country’s, they don’t share these things with us. They’re secrets are they not?’.”
Surprisingly, Nausheen went on to praise Kangana, saying, “ Brilliant actress. Beautiful, she’s an extremely beautiful woman. But I’m sorry, when it comes to respecting other people and countries, very bad… she’s an extremist.”
Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut took to Twitter to share a lengthy post where she discussed the significance of the term "Bharat" over "India." According to her Bharat holds a deeper meaning than the name India, and here's why. She wrote, “What is there to love in this name? First of all, they couldn’t pronounce ‘Sindhu’ toh usko bigad ke ‘ Indus’ kar diya. Phir kabhi Hindos kabhi Indos kuch bhi gol mol karke India bana diya.”
She continued, “From the time of Mahabharata, all the kingdoms who participated in the Great War of Kurukshetra came under one continent called Bharat so why were they calling us Indu Sindu?? Also, the name Bharat is so meaningful, what is the meaning of India ?”
Kangana concluded her post with a passionate plea, “I know they called Red Indians that because in olden English Indian simply meant a slave, they named us Indians because that was our new identity given to us by the British. Even in the olden days, the dictionary Indian meaning was mentioned a slave they recently changed it. Also, it’s not our name we are Bhartiya, not Indians.”
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This candid conversation between Nausheen Shah and Kangana Ranaut has sparked a thought-provoking dialogue on cultural identity and knowledge.