Kangna Ranaut: Rock Star

Kangna Ranaut might have been a green-horn in B-Town — wide-eyed and bushy-tailed about the whole fashion business when she started off. But along the way she learned how to dress and has today developed her own sense of style. Blessed as she is with a fashionably lean body, she could experiment with various ethnic and western designs. And today, she does manage to grab eyeballs when she walks on to the screen or walks into an event.

Initially, AAP Entertainment Pvt Ltd and Sohail Maklai's Knock Out that is releasing worldwide on October 15, didn't offer this sassy actress a chance to experiment with her wardrobe. "The film itself is a thriller that takes place within a time span of two hours of screen time. And since I play a television journalist, who is doing some serious spot reporting, I had to be wearing one costume throughout the film.

So I didn't get a chance to get myself an extensive wardrobe" explains Kangna, who'll be seen wearing a smart-cut western outfit since her screen character resembles that of a high-profile reporter. Though Kangna had to have six copies of the same outfit to last her during the entire duration of the shoot, later on, she had a surprise in store for her. Kangna did get a chance to dress interestingly when the producers of Knock Out suggested adding a title track.

"The music video shot is completely disconnected from the film. It is not in tandem with my screen character. But I loved the challenge of dressing up like a rock star because that's exactly how the song is designed. Even Sanju sir (Sanjay Dutt) has a very interesting wardrobe for the song. We're both carrying guitars and grooving to a snazzy number directed by Ahmad Khan," she says.

While Sanju is wearing a chic leather jacket over a pair of fashionable denims and heavy-duty jewellery like the rappers do, Kangna will be seen sporting figure-hugging leather pants, a smart short leather jacket thrown over a tube top with chains around her slender neck.

Kangna says she loves the fact that Hindi cinema gives an actor a chance to follow his/her heart and get into costumes that may seem bizarre off screen. But these costumes sit well on screen adding to the larger-than-life images that filmstars are often associated with. "When it comes to dressing up for songs or music videos we actors have a blast. It is truly dream merchant stuff. And if you let yourself go, you can thoroughly enjoy these situations," says the actress who hopes that one will enjoy the nail-biting, hardcore, real stuff that Knock Out is made of.