"I feel extremely bad": Kangana Ranaut chooses to avoid "Imali" from Anurag Basu's mentor

Anurag Basu's contribution to Kangana Ranaut's career is well known. The filmmaker gave a young Kangana his death blow with "Gangster" in 2006. The duo then worked on "Life In a … Metro" and "Kites", acclaimed by critics, and was preparing to collaborate to the fourth time on "Imali". However, the reunion after nine years will take longer since the actress has withdrawn from the film. The star of "Fashion" has invoked her interest for her debut full-fledged director, but she hopes to be able to work again with her mentor.

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Kangana was to work with Rajkummar Rao in "Imali", which would have been a love story, after "Queen" and the next "Mental Hai" Kya & # 39;.

The film was to be screened last November, but was delayed when the actress had to intervene p to achieve "Manikarnika: the queen of Jhansi".

"Anurag and I talked about it, I feel extremely bad because" Imali "gave me the opportunity to work with my mentor, but I'm about to announce my own film in a few weeks It took a lot of time and I pbaded it on to Anurag, who understood my situation, "Kangana said in a statement.

"We will work together at one point." Imali "is a beautiful love story and we can do it later." But for now, I'm focusing on my next director adventure. "

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Anurag is currently running a multi-starrer on the lines "Metro". Rajkummar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapur and, apparently, Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, among others. Kangana tours for "Mental Hai Kya" and prepares films like Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's "Panga" and J Jayalalitha's "Thalaivi" biopic.