She also claimed that she knew about the incidents, but never told anybody to avoid controversies. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who was elected as Lok Sabha MP from Mandi constituency in June 2024, recently spoke candidly about the pressures of being in Parliament as she confessed that she finds the job overwhelming and feels she needs to improve.
Being a parliamentarian is just too daunting. It is just way too daunting. I fall short of for that job (sic). I think that I need to be more. I should be more. There's no end to it. There's no end to how much one can give. There are so many people and there is so much to do, Kangana told IANS.
Further elaborating, she said: "And, like, always grumbling about that, I'm a parliamentarian from Mandi. But, all states call me. You see, all, all varieties of problems and, sometimes I respond, and then I'm like, is that my job, too. That I'm getting from. All across the country? So, what is the limit, till you can give, and you can do?"
She reflected on dealing with natural disasters: "And especially, when there are natural calamities, and you just find yourself just being a little speck in the cosmos. You're not even a speck, like, you're non-existent, like, you don't even exist, you're a bubble, to be precise," she said.
She elaborated, "And then you're faced with that sort of existential crisis-why am I in this position of helping people, where I myself am in such a bubble, I have no control over anything.
On the other hand, Kangana praised her filmmaking career: "Whereas being a filmmaker is a very gratifying job, you feel so good about yourself. You feel that I did this, You know, I made this film, I did so good and all of that."
She said being a parliamentarian has made her ask herself many times, "But being a parliamentarian, you're always feeling, 'what is to be done? Like, what can I do?' Of course, You can help people with policies that you can help people build homes, build roads, you can get them pension, you can solve their problems, but there are far and few because they already know the path to do that.
Kangana went on to say, "Most people just come to you, they're like your organs have failed you know, like my child is missing or My husband has left me, or like this mountain has fallen on my family and you're like, Oh my God, How am I even supposed to cope with all of this, there's so much pain in the world. I just feel that as a parliamentarian, and even as a person in power…
She also reflected on her personal life: "And I just keep thinking about people who are way ahead of me in the hierarchy, and I just keep thinking that, how do they run the whole nation?
Kangana concluded with an anecdote that was personal: "Sometimes I just collapse running my own house. Nothing is happening. Everything has crashed, the kitchen has crashed, the cook has left, you know, the AC, And the house is just not functioning, no matter how hard you try."
As a working woman, she said: "You just feel that; it's so hard to make the house run. How do they do it? I don't know; I just never found myself getting anxious thinking about something, but thinking about my duties as a parliamentarian and the vastness of this job is definitely going to be something where I need to up my game.
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