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Rani Mukerji said in a roundtable discussion that India makes the best films in the world

A comment Rani Mukerji made on a recent roundtable has triggered a debate she may not have intended. Rani, who is not on social media (officially at least), trended this week after a clip from the Galatta Plus roundtable on which the actress appeared with several others, among them filmmaker Prithvi Konanur. In brief, Prithvi praised Iranian cinema and Rani interjected to say that India makes the best films in the world based on the example of recent sleeper hit 12th Fail. India makes the best films in the world - Rani MukerjiDo you agree? pic.twitter.com/nxsl6nJfBI Can't get my head around since yesterday how Rani Mukerji called diversity as a positive trait over other countries just to win an argument while Prithvi Konanur didn't even get to finish his thought. Whether she did it knowingly or not, I don't have a clue.Yes, India is… https://t.co/JR9nkE2HhO Prithvi Konanur, who has to go through hell to promote and release his beautiful film, by calling up general audience, asking for support is told by Rani Mukerji that India makes the best films by giving an example of her husband's (Aditya Chopra) cousin's film. https://t.co/QqC5vJAeav lol the audacity of casually countering the argued brilliance of Iranian cinema with "12th fail" https://t.co/AvPABaYNoy Rani Mukerji bulldozed her way in that discussion. Okay so if Indian films are the best in the world, has she at least seen the works of Rima Das and Prithvi Konanur? Konanur: Iranian films have great ideas.Rani Vacuous Mukerji: I'm offended. Indian films are the best. Diversity, diversity. I watched '12th Fail'. I was blown away. Fantastic. I called the director. Wattewonderful. Diversity, diversity. Kannad.#RaniMukerji it's so painful to listen to rani mukerji talk a whole lot nothing at these roundtables. delusional people have this unfounded confidence to yap on regarding stuff they have no knowledge about. But what's Rani Mukerji doing in all roundtables? @baradwajranganMrs Chatterjee vs Norway was a poorly made film with a horrendous performance from her.Moreover, it was a 20 crs below average grosser at the Box Office.All this campaigning for scamming award shows 😂 https://t.co/GM3QDUPOHK If #RaniMukerji is such a great actress then why in the last 10-15 years, she has done only one film outside Yrf?@yrf has done a lot of PR & corporate booking to project her as a bankable star but she just doesn't have it in her.Her career is made out of Kajol's rejections. Rani Mukerji if enraging Twitter with her statements was an award 🤭pic.twitter.com/AlUuU8XgVa

WHAT PRITHVI KONANUR SAIDAt the roundtable, the filmmaker suggested that Iranian films were superior in ideas to Indian cinema. "I ask people to watch Iranian films. Watch them. You can see a vast difference between our films and their films. I feel we are, for some reason, actually far behind Iranian cinema. This is an honest opinion. I request people to watch Iranian films and see how advanced they are in terms of ideas, maybe not in terms of technology, but in terms of ideas where they are," he said. The roster of Iranian cinematic greats feature filmmakers like Majid Majidi, Asghar Farhadi and Abbas Kiarostami. Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani, a popular face globally from the fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean film, Extraction and other projects, has been nominated for a Cesar Award.

WHAT RANI MUKERJI SAIDInterrupting Prithvi Konanur, Rani said: "So I would like to say something here because I am a little offended when he says that we should learn from other people's cinema. I do believe that Indian cinema is the best in the world, so I would not agree with that. I am really sorry because if you want to talk about films that come from the roots, I think you must watch 12th Fail. It is a brilliant film made by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and it talks about India... everything is very brilliantly shown... I feel that we in India make the most diverse films. When you talk about films from outside India, they don't have the diversity that India has. I believe Indian cinema has a lot to offer and actually are the best in the world... I would not want to compare Indian cinema with any other cinema in the world because we have the truest stories, most grounded stories…"