Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut has announced that she is taking over the directing duties for her upcoming movie "Emergency", based on former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

It was earlier reported that director Sai Kabir, who worked with Ranaut for her 2014 movie "Revolver Rani", will be helming the project.

But Ranaut on Wednesday said she will direct the biopic as she believes that no one can tackle the project better than her.

"Pleased to wear director's hat again, after working on 'Emergency' for more than a year, I finally figured no one can direct it better than me, collaborating with fabulous writer Ritesh Shah, even if it means sacrificing on various acting assignments I am determined to do it," she wrote in a post on Koo app.

Ranaut had previously assumed the director's chair for her 2019 movie "Manikarnika".

The film's final cut had given the director credit to both Ranaut as well as Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi.

Besides "Emergency", Ranaut has a string of films in her kitty including "Thalaivi" "Dhaakad", "Tejas" and the second installment of "Manikarnika" franchise, titled "Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda".

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.