It has been a couple of weeks since the Kangana Ranaut interview with Anupama Chopra on the television show The Front Row aired, but social media is still hearting it with a steady beat. Ranaut has so far been the lost underdog. The one whom no one particularly cared to champion. She carried no clear badge of being the underclass like, say, Rakhi Sawant, so no one was cheering her on in a virtual class war. She didn’t deliberately and nonchalantly set out to shock like Mallika Sherawat version 1.0, so no one thought her trashy but sassy.

As noted in this column, a couple of years ago she was the actor other actors felt free to diss on everybody’s favourite chat show, Koffee with the Filmi Babalog, where Sonam Kapoor suggested she needed to learn English and Sanjay Dutt felt she should wear salwar kameez.