Bollywood actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut celebrates her birthday on March 23. The BJP MP, who recently directed and acted in the film Emergency, once took a dig at Rani Mukerji’s performance in Black calling it no big deal. The film, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, narrates the story of Michelle (Mukerji), a deafblind woman, and her relationship with her teacher Debraj (Amitabh Bachchan), an elderly alcoholic teacher who later develops Alzheimer's disease. It draws inspiration from the life of Helen Keller, as well as the 1962 film based on her autobiography, The Miracle Worker.

Kangana Ranaut on watching SLB’s Black

On Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist, Kangana recalled, "People around me from theatre were suggesting I do films, which I thought would be difficult. I went with my roommate Kamlesh, who was almost my mother's age. My roommate took me to watch Black and told me if we could act like that, we could also become like them. And I said, "I can do this. What's the big deal?" She was like, "Oh my god, look at you?" I said in theatre, we do this in one go. Here, you have to do it in segments; and if you mess up, you can do it again! I went back to my hostel and tried to enact [Rani Mukerji's character] before the mirror. And I knew I could definitely do this. That day, I found the confidence.”