Kangana Ranaut supports khadi in ‘Manikarnika’

TIL Desk Bollywood/ National Award-winning actress Kangana Ranaut, who essays the title role in the epic drama “Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi”, will be seen wearing the heritage Indian fabric Khadi, an official said here on Tuesday. Besides Kangana, several others in the film’s cast would also be donning beautiful ensemble Khadi costumes sponsored by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).

“We all know that since 1926, Mahatma Gandhiji had upheld the Khadi as symbol of Swaraj and spun the final yarn of India’s fabric of Independence. We are proud to be a part of India’s indomitable spirit of Independence,” said KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena.

Citing a little known fact, he said several decades before Gandhiji’s tryst with the Charkha, a girl was born to a Maharashtrian-origin family in Varanasi as Manikarnika Tambe or Manu. Manikarnika not only mastered reading the Vedas and Puranas, horse-riding and sword fighting, but also learnt weaving before being proclaimed as the legendary Queen Laxmibai, Jhansi Ki Rani.