Cinema VinesActress Kangana Ranaut has taken to Instagram to pay tribute to 1990s Bollywood icon Karisma Kapoor, sharing a nostalgic throwback image of herself as a young girl. In the photo, a pre‑teen Kangana can be seen wearing black dungarees, a yellow T‑shirt and a sweatshirt tied around her waist—clothes that echo the style of Kapoor’s characters from that era. The caption accompanying the post was a heartfelt note in which Ranaut declared, “Who all worshipped original fashionista @therealkarismakapoor in the 90’s ha ha! I definitely did,” and she added the line “original fashionista” to honor Kapoor’s influence on her early fashion sense.
The post was accompanied by the popular 1990s track “Le Gayi” from the film Dil Toh Pagal Hai, further underscoring the throwback vibe. Ranaut’s tribute comes at a time when she has been highly active on social media, sharing her unfiltered opinions on the CJP protest and even taking jibes at fellow stars such as Sonakshi Sinha and Hrithik Roshan.
In a separate Instagram Stories reel posted on Saturday, Ranaut revealed that she feels she aligns more with Gen Alpha than with Gen Z. The reel featured a little girl mimicking a Gen Z influencer while promoting lettuce, and Ranaut’s caption read, “Gen Alpha roasting Gen Z is pure gold.” She added, “It is official I identify as Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha is like come to the point, no nonsense detected,” and later posted another clip of a child dressed as a soldier with the caption, “Gen Alpha is bleeding tricolour.”
Ranaut’s recent remarks about Gen Z are not new; during the CJP protest she described Gen Z women as a “gutter generation,” criticizing their language and perceived lack of decorum. She stated, “Never in my life have I seen so much ugliness in one place; these reels from Gen Z protests are puke‑inducing. The way they speak and the kind of language they are using, never in my life have I seen everything in each and every frame so jarring and so crass all at once, ewwww who is birthing and raising them? Here is a new generation of so‑called westernised Indian women. I call them generation gutter.”
On the professional front, Ranaut is currently working on “Bharat Bhagya Vidhata,” a film directed by Manoj Tapadia that tells the true story of nurses and staff at Cama Hospital who saved patients during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The film adds to Ranaut’s diverse portfolio, which spans both cinema and outspoken social commentary.
