Inside Kangana Ranaut's ₹48 crore office: Her Journey from ₹1500 to being the highest paid actress

and it's very expensive property and it's Bunglow

it's not in a flat

I need organic fabrics. I need plants . sunlight

everyone's like she is struggling for direction with these requirements

can I just do what I want to do

they are like but why are you wasting a money

being a women I don't think about money

am I looked at that from outside perspective

that I am a gold digger from small town

There are stories and there are success stories

Kangana Ranaut is a huge success story

from the place that she started the kind of fights that she fought

Today she has build an empire of her own

and it won't be wrong to say that she completely done it on her own

Today she has build new office space

and she will take us virtually into that office space

Thank you for doing this Kangana

how many floor is it. Give us some description about whole

we have seen the video but not everything is evidence from the video

how have you decor your own room

how is everything there

There are 3 floors, so the ground floor I have cafeteria there

I think growing up when I was working I realized that

where people have to chat or smoke

cool you want to do you want to run out of the office, enjoy outside so

so I thought why not have that cafeteria

and there is a little bar, a coffee bar.

then I was making that bar my sister is like

now you have a bar in your struggling director office

I said it's a coffee bar

last thing I heard is DJ lights and I said no

but there is definitely tea and coffee bar

I want the space where people don't escape the space to be happy or to be relaxed

and than there is a little prayer space there

I have put Hanuman Ji's sculpture there

for the good viberation

we go up there are work station edit rooms

if you see chairs of work stations these are

very different they got wheels on them but they are not regular rotating chair

there is fabric to that also

so Shabnam has design that with special company

well it doesn't hurt the back

it has Sofa feel it's comfortable

there are some private cabins as well

and third floor is where we have conference calls, meetings and

and my meeting space is very unconventional I don't have table and chair kind of sitting area

it's more like a lounge space where you can sit

because I think writers anyways don't use

could talk across the table you know

there more relaxed space where creative work happens

so I had these ideas where office should be the nature of my work

just because it is office and everywhere in the world

it is a certain way that doesn't mean I have to build it like that

so it's very unconventional

so you have a wardrobe also there

yes I have a wardrobe where

she be like this Diva director

don't embarass me now

so you have a wardrobe and what else you have there

you have a whole make place also

No I do feel at times

we as actor and that during Manikarnika also I felt that

there are so many times roles just blend

like you have to go for an interview you have to get make up

so it's not like my house elaborate

it was just a small corner given to something

a situation like that where

get little ready and I can leave

but it's not like some elaborate thing

when you started first of all aquaring this land

and completely re building it it's a process

when did you start. since when were you planning

and such a mindblowing office space

office spaces should be thereputic to you

to make sure creative juices flow in specially production house

how much of inputs creatives were yours

well I

I bought it 4 years ago

the news were out around that time 4 years ago

the idea was to build my own studio from

the very beginning meaning to do that

and in between some of my films didn't work

I think after Rangoor and Simran there was

it's a very expensive property in the heart of and it's Bunglow

it's not in a flat so

it took a set back

but after Manikarnika it changed again

and I could re build it I could do it a way I want

I could have done basic thing and moved in

and everyone's like are you becoming producer

to start work you can start work any where else

why don't you rent an apartment meanwhile it get ready

I said I can't go to those glass chembers

where there is lot of glass and lot of concrete

there is no light I need organic fabric, I need plants, sunglight

everyone's like she is struggling for direction with these requirements

they say she is already a diva

my sister said are you a struggling director

I said I am struggling director I need sunlight flowers

I can delay my project little bit

If I am not wrong this cost you 48 crores

is it true and how many people advised you against it

and what made it say yes to it

did you feel it's risk at any given point

because my CA was like why are you putting this property

into something which you want to struggle

because initially when you direct a project the studio that you do for they give you the rent

they give you place and accomodation

and he said why don't you put your money in bonds

why don't you take something which you can commercially give a rest

a big showroom and you might get 30-40 lakh per month

and you are wasting there were group of people my parents to my Ca my sister

so going against my family never really stops

and I am like can I just do what I want to do

they are like but why are you wasting your money

and obviously this is not even a space you will use

you will probably use one corner of it

and it will be these 60-70 people who will be working with you

why are you doing this

so it was a big challenge

I still feel like I don't know going forward I will figure

it was a investment or not

but you are happy

I am very happy I have already started work on Ayodhya

and we have meetings and it's different energy all together

and being a director the most of the time you spend in office

so that's what I paln to do

did you decide on colors and why those colors

because I saw it's blueish it's very powdery blue

and very comforting and soothing to eyes so

why did you decide on those colors

I think I am like

I am somebody who like pastel shades

so pinks and purples and blues are my shades

so I feel lot more clam and there is a sense of

like feel in those colors

maybe that's the color of sky also

and blue is one of my favorite color

and color shades of blue are soothing to me

it's very eco friendly sustainable kind of office space

what are thing that you incorporated creatively to make it that way

and it's a plastic free office if I am not mistaken

what kind of other calls have you been taking

to make sure that this is effectively

co friendly and sustainable for the environment

everytime we build something we draw from nature

whether it's trees or stone

everything is drawn from nature

I have to make sure there is enough greenery there

the kind of trees I have taken I kind of give back

I have not taken but structure must have taken years

I don't want to get into BMC problem

oh did you cut trees you didn't know about it

no I didn't but one's before this who build this

but it has a lot from the planet and I don't componsiate for that

and of course we won't use plastic bottles

we want to aware we will have containers

we have regular water

and apart from that cooking meals fresh meal

and not using packed food

you don't have too much to litter

taking care on everything at small level

Sabhnam said that you were very particular about the fact that

you need to see trees and greens whenever you look out of any of the windows

how did you manage to do that, is that your favorite spot

what is your favorite spot in your office area

my seating area is my favorite

those mattress and those curtains

so my brief to Sabhnam was that I don't like those rolled windows

those plastic

blinds that you get

I am like please don't give me those do something more hand stich

it's a personal touch to it

and everything is very aged very worn out

the idea is to have space where you can belong

and she is so good with her work

I just have to tell her that I want these

I want to have sunlight in every corner and I want to have a greens

she has given me various kinds of walls

vase and all

planters outside windows

she has done various things so that I am stuffed with flowers

if you see my house also in Mumbai

if you see my Khar house and outside from building

the plants are bursting out of my floor

it's like a little Jungle

which is nice but for me I don't know how it has to be

here I don;t need to because I see so much greenery everywhere

when I was in Mumbai and when I use to look out I feel

I feel so bad

Kangana how do you look back at your journey

you came to Bombay with almost nothing

today you have everything that you always dreamt of

do you remember to those days when you didn;t have money

well to be honest I never thought I will come this far

I never had my dreams very ambitious

that one day I should have a bunglow on Pali Hill

or any other material ambition never had

it started with something but later on knew

women are hugely judged

for the fact that they don't go after material ambition

and man are having this kind of race and sometimes we also get very vulnerable

becaus ethey don't think like that

being a women I don't think about money but

Am I looked that from outside perspective that I am a gold digger from small town

something which is so obnoxiously said to you

can change your cause of your life forever

then it became about materail things

I never thought I am looked like that

that has somehow given me perception that maybe

I want to not look like

and maybe I have a fair chance in a society

if today I am somebody who

now I have another goal by the age of 50 I want to be the richest person in India

that's when by the grace of god I became highest paid actoress also

also the calls I could have taken like I told you

there were lot of pressure on me

to invest my money where it multiples not

in a place where I can think better

so obviously I listen to this calls I listen to my heart

I will only know what happens later on

but right now I want to be somebody who is autonomous

who is on her own and I want to

build a legacy of landmark cinema

I wnat to do films I may not do film every year

I may want films in to years that's my target

and my actor not acting them

but it's a great thing and Thank you for giving

us almost virtual tour of your office space

I really liked it I can't wait ato go and chill with you there

but thank you for taking us through your fans will also enjoy

the whole conversation and mind and creative calls

that went behind designing that office space

kuddos to you more power to you like I always say

I hope everybody feels they also have power to dream as much as you do

Thank you

thank you darling