Kangana Ranaut shares rare throwback pic inspired by Karisma Kapoor's 90s fashion, calls her ‘original fashionista’

Lately, Kangana Ranaut has been quite active on social media. The actor has shared her unabashed views on the CJP protest and taken jibes at Bollywood celebrities such as Sonakshi Sinha and Hrithik Roshan . The actor has now shared another post, this time expressing her admiration for 90s Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor.

Kangana shared a rare throwback photo of herself on Instagram Stories. The photo shows a young Kangana wearing clothes inspired by Karisma's characters. It clearly shows that Kangana's childhood fashion sense was inspired by Karisma Kapoor.

The throwback photo shows a young Kangana sporting black dungarees with a yellow T-shirt, with a sweatshirt casually tied around her waist. Along with it, she wrote a heartfelt note, calling Karisma the “original fashionista”. She wrote in the caption, “Who all worshipped original fashionista @therealkarismakapoor in the 90’s ha ha! I definitely did." She also used Lolo’s song Le Gayi from Dil Toh Pagal Hai along with the post.

In another Instagram update on Saturday, Kangana declared that she identifies more with Gen Alpha than with Gen Z. She shared a reel on her Story. The reel featured a little girl acting like a Gen Z “influencer” while promoting eating lettuce. The caption on the reel read, “Gen Alpha roasting Gen Z is pure gold.”

Sharing the video, Kangana wrote, “It is official I identify as Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha is like come to the point, no nonsense detected.” She also shared another video of a young child dressed as a soldier and wrote, “Gen Alpha is bleeding tricolour.”

Earlier, during the CJP protest, Kangana had called Gen Z women 'gutter generation'. She had said, " “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.”"

Kangana was last seen in Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, which is directed by Manoj Tapadia. The film was based on the true story of the nurses and staff at Cama Hospital who saved patients’ lives during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Vibha Maru is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Entertainment, based in Delhi. With a decade of experience across digital and print media, she covers Bollywood, Hollywood and web shows. A self-confessed cinephile who breathes Hindi cinema, Vibha can often be found sacrificing sleep after binge-watching films and web series. Though she holds a Commerce degree, she discovered her true calling in journalism after enrolling at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). She began her career covering Delhi's cultural scene, food, nightlife, concerts, and city life at The Times of India, before moving into full-time entertainment journalism with India Today.