She’s being praised to the skies for her role as the traumatised schizophrenic Parveen Babi in "Woh Lamhe". But it has left Kangana Ranaut so drained that she intends to take a month off to regain emotional strength.
"I’m going back home to my village in Himachal as soon as I can, just to be near my dear ones, just to feel what Sana, my character in ‘Woh Lamhe’, never did. I had become so close to her that I had begun to feel her desolation and loneliness. I know what she went through. In this ruthless industry you are all alone. And intense love always brings intense suffering. There may be happy love stories. Parveen didn’t have one. Some day I hope to have a happy love story."
Kangana admits she was scared to approach Babi.
"The one thing I could connect with was her mood swings. I have them too. As one woman I can connect to the pain of another. Like Sana I do get angry. But only once in six months. And then all hell . I don’t throw things around only because I live alone and I know I’ll have to clean up the mess. More than moody I’m practical. I withdraw into myself."