After releasing in theatres earlier this month, Kangana Ranaut starrer Thalaivii is now streaming on Netflix. Kangana is riding high on the success of her latest movie based on J Jayalalithaa. Thalaivii was well-appreciated by critics as they liked Kangana’s performance but it faced losses as multiplex chains like PVR Cinemas and INOX Leisure Ltd refused to screen the Hindi version of the film.

As the movie has been received well by the audience, she took to Instagram stories and wrote, “Rarely a film loved passionately and unanimously… And Thalaivii is one such film… I am glad people [are] getting to know Purchai Thalaivi Dr. J. Jayalalithaa’s story. Also big thanks to my team for making a film which is a shining diamond in my filmography. #gratitude.”

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Starring Arvind Swami as MG Ramachandran, Prakash Raj as M Karunanidhi, Jisshu Sengupta as Sobhan Babu, and Bhagyashree as Jayalalithaa’s mother Sandhya, the multi-lingual film is produced by Vishnu Vardhan and Shailesh R Singh.

Kangana also attacked the Bollywood mafia that ignored her once again and urged the Hindi film industry to rise about petty issues. She wrote, “Meanwhile waiting for Bollywood Mafia to keep our political and ideological differences aside just how I don’t find it difficult to appreciate genuine art maybe they can also rise above petty human emotions and for once let art win #Thalaivii.”

© Kangana Ranaut Instagram

We wonder how the 'Bollywood mafia', that Kangana is referring to in her post, would react to her statements.

For her role in the movie, Kangana had to gain 20kg and undergo major physical transformation several times. She took to Instagram to share her experience and said all these physical changes have left her with “permanent stretch marks."

“Gaining 20kg in 6 months and losing it all within 6 months that too in my thirties messed up many things in my body I also have permanent stretch marks as well but art comes to life with a price and more often than not price is the artist him/herself," she wrote.

If you have seen the movie, you would agree with the fact she has put her blood and sweat into the character.

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