Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has finally reacted to speculation about her equation with Miley Na Miley Hum (2011) co-star and fellow politician Chirag Paswan, 43. In a recent interview, the 40-year-old clarified there’s no romance between the two.

“Chirag is a friend. Let me be honest, there’s no romance happening. He did his film with me 10 years ago. Agar romance hota toh aaj humare bachche hotey,” she said.

She added, “It’s just that friendly vibe which you get from somebody who’s just kind of your type as in, he’s also in a way from the film industry. So I feel very good around him.”

Back in 2024, the two had created social media buzz after they were spotted having a light-hearted moment in Delhi when they arrived to enter the Parliament.

She further added, “If I wanted to have romance, then it would have happened. It’s not happening.”

Kangana is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party while Chirag is the Union Minister of Food Processing Industries since June 2024, and Member of Parliament from Hajipur, Bihar.

Kangana Ranaut, who has shared a contentious equation with filmmaker Karan Johar over the years, has now offered a more measured perspective on their dynamic. “I don’t think Karan is a bad person. I think he’s proudly superficial, flaky and flashy. And he’s very proud of that. I also think he has an amazing sense of humour. So I don’t think I have a problem with Karan as such,” she said.

Kangana, who has worked with Karan only once in Ungli (2014), had famously called him the “flagbearer of nepotism” and “movie mafia” on his chat show Koffee With Karan in 2017. This remark had sparked widespread debate in the industry.

Kangana also spoke about how her ex (actor-singer Adhyayan Suman) filed a case against her in 2017, after which she was allegedly labelled a “witch”.

“Kuch log bolne lage ki yeh toh chudail hai, khoon peeti hai, kaale kamre mein kaale parde lagake kaala jaadu karti hai. So there was a witch-hunt and I was hardly 26 or 27. So when this is how they’re going to treat me, why should I make them look good,” she said.

The actor also credited Queen (2014) as a turning point. “It was a film where I knew how it happened. It was not a stroke of luck. I was very confident of myself at that point,” she said, adding that she eventually learned to block out criticism. “I do not care [what others say]. And that was a very decisive decision that I took. I’m not going to believe any of the s**t that they are telling me,” she added. 

Chirag Paswan, who was recently sworn in as Minister of Food Processing Industries, has been in the limelight ever since. A former actor, he starred with actor-politician Kangana Ranaut in the film Miley Naa Miley Hum (2011). Calling his acting stint a “disaster”, Paswan accepts that he was never cut out for Bollywood. “It was a different time. I can’t say if it was difficult or easy. No one from my family has ever been a part of Bollywood. In a filmi way I can say, ‘Meri saat pushto ka film se koi naata nahin raha’. I was the first who tried to venture into it,” he told journalist Smita Prakash in her ANI podcast.

Paswan added, “Very soon, I realized that it (venturing into acting) was a disaster. I realized I was a disaster even before [everyone else in] the country [felt that]. I wasn’t made for this (acting).”

The 41-year-old added that friendship with actor and now fellow-MP Kangana Ranaut was the “only good thing” about his Bollywood stint: “We became really good friends. So, I was really looking forward to meeting Kangana in the Parliament, because for the last three years, I was so busy that I had lost connect with her.”

Paswan and Ranaut made headlines recently when a photo of them went viral. The two were captured greeting each other warmly with a low five outside the Parliament recently. When asked if he thinks Ranaut, 38, can make a difference as an MP, Paswan said, “One thing I know for sure is that most of the times, Kangana isn’t politically correct. But that’s her USP. She talks her [mind]… She knows kya bolna hai, kab bolna hai. Ab woh politically correct ho, nahin ho, woh debatable ho sakta hai.”