Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut who never hesitates to speak her mind has made an allegation against filmmaker Karan Johar saying that he "banned" Priyanka Chopra Jonas from Bollywood because of her friendship with superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Priyanka in a recent interview shared that she had decided to take a break from the Hindi film industry when she was at the peak of her career after she was "pushed into a corner" and was "tired of politics" in the industry.
Kangana was the first from Bollywood to react to Priyanka’s revelation. Both had worked together in the 2008 film Fashion.
Kangana shared an article on Twitter which was titled: "Priyanka Chopra says she moved to the US because had 'beef' with people in Bollywood: "Was being pushed into a corner, was tired of the politics".
Captioning the article, Kangana tweeted: "This is what @priyankachopra has to say about bollywood, people ganged up on her, bullied her and chased her out of film industry" a self made woman was made to leave India. Everyone knows Karan Johar had banned her."
She said that Karan "harassed" Priyanka, which caused her to leave the country. In another tweet, she wrote, "Media wrote extensively about her fallout with Karan Johar because of her friendship with SRK and movie mafia Cruella who is always looking for vulnerable outsiders saw a perfect punching bag in PC and went all out in harassing her to a point where she had to leave India."
She further tweeted: "This obnoxious, jealous, mean and toxic person should be held accountable for ruining the culture and environment of the film industry which was never hostile to outsiders in the days of AB or SRK. His gang and mafia PR should be raided and held accountable for harassing outsiders”.
Priyanka made the big reveal while speaking to Dax Shepherd on his podcast Armchair Expert. She said she wasn't getting good roles, was struggling amid industry politics when her current manager and friend Anjula Acharia offered her to try her luck in music in the west.
"I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break,” she said.
The actor had delivered a few music videos with Pitbull and others but eventually made it big with her 2015 hit TV show, Quantico. She also won two consecutive People's Choice Awards for her role in the show.
She will now be seen in Russo Brothers' show Citadel and the Hollywood film Love Again.