Kangana Ranaut To Saif Ali Khan In Open Letter: How Can You Compare Race Horses To Artistes

Saif Ali Khan compared star kids to race horses in an open letter defending his stance on nepotism and a day later actress Kangana Ranaut slammed the comparison in her own open letter, which was published on Saturday in mid-day. Kangana, who is recuperating from a head injury she sustained while filming Manikarnika: Rani Of Jhansi, said she came across several articles discussing nepotism - the debate resurfaced at an award show recently - and she did find some of them 'disturbing' (and, Saif Ali Khan's open letter was one of them). "I fail to understand how you can compare genetically hybrid racehorses to artistes! Are you implying that artistic skills, hard-work, experience, concentration spans, enthusiasm, eagerness, discipline and love, can be inherited through family genes? If your point was true, I would be a farmer back home. I wonder which gene from my gene-pool gave me the keenness to observe my environment, and the dedication to interpret and pursue my interests," wrote Kangana.

Saif Ali Khan's open letter also defended the use of the terms "eugenics and genetics" in the context of nepotism (he said in an interview to Firstpost) and here too Kangana aptly said: "You also spoke of eugenics - which means controlled breeding of the human race. So far, I believe that the human race hasn't found the DNA that can pass on greatness and excellence. If it had, we would've loved to repeat the greatness of Einstein, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Vivekananda, Stephen Hawking, Terence Tao, Daniel Day-Lewis, or Gerhard Richter."