Kangana Ranaut injured again on the sets of Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi: reports

Mumbai: Kangana Ranaut, who is all set to portray the fearless warrior Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi in Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, injured herself on the sets of the film in Jodhpur reports suggest. She was immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment.

And going by the latest buzz, she has flown to Mumbai to recover. However, this isn’t the first time Kangana got injured while working on the film. A few months back, while enacting a sword fighting scene, Kangana was hit by the weapon and she started bleeding from her head.

While giving an interview to the Filmfare magazine, she opened about the whole incident.

She said, "I was doing a sword-fighting scene with three men. I guess Nihar (Pandya, who plays Rao Saheb) forgot his cue and he hit on my head. There's no way of avoiding something so unfortunate like this. Especially, when it's choreography related. The coordination of the various elements is difficult. It was a bad accident. It exposed my bone and my face was full of blood."

She also shared that if you give blood to play such a woman, it's worth it.

"There's something about being in character. You cannot be a warrior without adopting the body language and the demeanour. When the metal sword hit my head, I felt it. I saw blood streaming down my face. There were stains on my dress. I asked Nick (Powell, Hollywood action director) whether I needed stitches. He said yes. I asked how many. He said around 10. I asked him to take me to the hospital, to the best plastic surgeon. Nick and my producer, Kamal Jain found it amusing that it was me who was guiding them. Usually, I'm scared of blood. But in this case I wasn't," she shared.

"But when you talk about Laxmibai, she was the general of an army. She was an extraordinary woman. How many battles she fought in the prime of her youth! She was like a 'killing machine'. So it would be a shame to try to get into character superficially through clothes, make-up, hair styles and jewellery. And if you give blood to play such a woman, it's worth it. To be honest, I'm only happy. You can't hope to immortalise the greatest warrior of all times without having a battle scar on your face. So it's justified."

‘Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi’ has some fine performers in the star cast. Atul Kulkarni is on board to play Ramchandra Pandurang Tope also known as Tatya Tope; Sonu Sood will portray a character named Sadashiv, Ankita Lokhande will play Jhalkaribai a brave warrior and advisor to Rani Lakshmibai; Nihar Pandya will essay Baji Rao II.

The film directed by Krish and jointly produced by Zee Studious, Kamal Jain and Nishant Pitti, will mark the Bollywood debut of TV actress Ankita and model Nihar Pandya.

The epic film will release on April 27, 2018.