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Success is so overrated: Kangana to open up about 10 years of rejection in new book

Success is so overrated: Kangana to open up about 10 years of rejection in new book

"We need to tell our children that it is okay to fail. Nothing lasts forever," said the Bollywood actress
16 Jan, 2016

Before Kangana Ranaut became a household name, she endured 10 years of "humiliation, rejection, embarrassment". The Bollywood actress wants to write about her experience of struggle in a book.

Ranaut announced her intention to do so at the launch of Barkha Dutt's The Unquiet India, reports Indian Express. She said, “The way I dealt with my failures has been very heavy and I would like to write a book about that, how success will never teach you anything.”

Instead, the actress says she is a big believer in the value of struggle:

“So I’ve been through struggle for 10 years, and I think that’s what shaped me as a person today. I don’t know how much a success people see me as – that is a very external aspect of one’s growth – but I think I’m a very successful person on a very personal level. And when you lose something or face failure, it’s about how you deal with it and not lose your self-respect and self-worth,” she said.

“Ten years of humiliation, rejection, embarrassment could’ve made me believe what the whole world thought about me – like if they thought about me as a loser, but I didn’t think of myself as that or as what the world or my parents thought of me. That’s why I could do what I did in my life… Not just in India but all over the world, winning and success in so overrated,” she added.

Ranaut pointed out that the culture of "standing first in class" has fostered certain our attitudes towards failing:

“We need to tell our children that it is okay to fail, there’s nothing wrong in it. Nothing lasts forever. That kind of spirit needs to be there,” she said.

An inability to accept failure has larger social implications than we think, she said:

“So rejection is so hard to deal with for anyone, especially men, there’s no acceptance for the fact that this women doesn’t want or that she doesn’t have feelings for me. Usually that is the intention and I feel that for 90 per cent of the violence against women – that kind of rejection triggers it.”

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Faisal Azeem Jan 16, 2016 04:21pm
Great. Very nice thoughts. Thumbs up for Kangna. Am a big fan of her
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shubs Jan 16, 2016 05:31pm
Couldn't agree more. This actress is a breath of fresh air.
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SFA Jan 16, 2016 05:56pm
Just one question. After the phenomenal success of Queen and Tanu Weds Manu Returns, what made you pick Katti Batti? That was no short of a commercial suicide. Now that you have achieved such success in the industry, you can afford to be choosy! There is no need for you to do films like Katti Batti or associate your name with hopeless actors like Imran Khan.
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