Kangana Ranaut to play Meena Kumari in biopic

Kangna Ranaut is being lined up to play the tragedy queen', Meena Kumari in a film of her life to be made by Tigmanshu Dhulia.

Mumbai Mirror reports that the film is an adaption of late journalist, Vinod Mehta's book, Meena Kumari: The Classic Biography'. The makers of the film and Sunil Bohra who owns the rights to the book, have taken the project to Ranaut.

A source told Mumbai Mirror, "Kangana is looking at her date diary and is hoping to accommodate the film in August-September. The research has begun and a formal announcement will be made soon."

Kumari died at the age of 39 after alcohol addiction.