Kangana Ranaut dragged Generation Z deeper into a public fight after calling Saurav Das “simply useless” and “unemployed” on Instagram Stories. The clash followed his claim that younger generations do not take her seriously, turning a political back-and-forth into a sharper personal attack.
Ranaut’s Instagram Stories
28 years old was the number Ranaut said she found when she googled Das, and she used it to press a comparison she clearly wanted to own. “I googled this person and he is 28 years old. How he claims to be a student I have no clue! Yes I am in politics for past 2 years but I have been in public life for the last 20 years. At his age, I had 2 National Awards,” she wrote.
2 years in politics was only part of the frame she set for herself. Ranaut said she was overwhelmed as a new Parliamentarian because she is also a filmmaker, performing artist, producer, screen writer, and entrepreneur, then went further: “But someone like him who is totally useless and unemployed will never understand what it means to be in massive demand in all times at any age.”
Saurav Das on ANI
Saurav Das answered by arguing that Ranaut no longer commands respect from the people she attacks. Speaking to ANI, the Cockroach Janta Party spokesperson said even members of her own party do not pay much heed to her, and that Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and other younger generations do not take her seriously or listen to what she says.
He pushed the argument into political territory by citing her own remarks about the work of office. Das said there were videos from when she visited her constituency in Himachal Pradesh where she said she had expected the job to require very little work, only to learn that being a Member of Parliament involves a massive amount of labour. He ended with a line that widened the split: Gen Z has done more for India than her.
Gen Z protests and reels
Ranaut had already escalated the exchange before Das responded. In a social media post, she said she had never seen so much ugliness in one place, described the Gen Z protest reels as puke-inducing, and called the language in them crass.
She also wrote that India is “a place of diversely beautiful people, draped in elegance and rooted in cultural sophistication,” and said she was scarred from the reels and needed a digital detox. The argument now sits at the intersection of protest imagery, political branding, and status signaling, with Ranaut using awards and years in public life as her shield while Das questions whether younger voters are listening at all.
Chalo Sansad march fallout
The wider dispute follows Delhi Police directions to multiple social media platforms to remove posts and videos containing offensive and abusive remarks against Modi after the July 20 Chalo Sansad march and the student protests at Jantar Mantar. That backdrop gave Ranaut’s remarks more reach, because her criticism landed inside an already heated fight over protest culture and public speech.
For readers tracking the row, the immediate question is not whether either side has more volume online; it is whether this exchange changes how Generation Z is being used in political arguments. Right now, it reads less like a one-off insult and more like a test of whether personal contempt can still substitute for persuasion.
