A mellower, sweeter Kangana would have not been thought possible a few years ago, but the transformation is actually happening! The fiery turbulence is calming down to a steadier glow. She laughs, admitting, “Well, I think when you are young, you are hot-blooded, you are impulsive, you are passionate. It’s just the beauty of youth, of being that way. But in some way it starts to come down, in some way you start to grow other traits of your personality. But I will remember my growing up days as someone who was obscenely hot blooded (laughs). But now I feel that there is definitely a shift in my personality.”

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She credits this shift to the sense of calm that she now feels. “I feel like that phase was great, it was good. Now, for my growth, I need to step out of my ego, or being hot-blooded, high-headed. But then comes a point when you crave engagement with your environment, you want people around you, you want to operate in a way that makes your environment absolutely pleasant, ecstatic. So that’s what I crave. More than my ego, I crave pleasantness. There was a time when pleasantness did not matter to me.”

…Which is not to suggest she has become boring! “What I crave is a lot of pleasantness in my environment but that doesn’t mean that I will not raise my voice or fight for what is right,” she points out.

The torrid twenties have ended and she looks back and them with almost a sense of nostalgia. “The hot-bloodedness of the youth is a very giddy-headed feeling, you know, you just cannot control it... In today’s time, that’s why I feel it’s very important for people like us and the youth that are coming, to be given a cause. Otherwise, their cause becomes just being anti-national (laughs).”

She believes she got a cause from her guru, her master (Vivekananda) at a very young age. She is grateful that she had some romance, about life, about values, about things that she wanted to do. “I wanted to change, and I was this larger-than-life hero in my mind, and I love that feeling. But if I want to have that feeling now, I can’t have it.”
Our rebel without a pause has grown up after all!