Kangana Ranaut defends calling Urmila Matondkar ‘soft porn star’
Hindustan TimesKangana Ranaut is set to contest Lok Sabha election 2024 from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh on a BJP ticket. The actor-turned-politician addressed the controversy around her old 'soft porn star' jibe at Urmila Matondkar during an interaction at the Times Now Summit 2024 on Wednesday. Kangana Ranaut on calling Urmila 'soft porn star' During the interaction, Kangana said that 'actresses are comfortable calling themselves tandoori murgi, Sheila Ki Jawani or item girl'. Kangana says porn stars get the most respect in India As she opened up about her old remark, the actor also said that in India, porn stars get immense respect and an example was actor Sunny Leone. Urmila, who made her political debut as a Congress candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, and joined Shiv Sena in 2020, had in a 2020 NDTV interview slammed Kangana for disrespecting veteran actor Jaya Bachchan, who had objected to the entire film industry being ‘tarnished’ in a 2020 speech in Parliament.