NEW DELHI: Indian actress Kangana Ranaut says that while she has grown strength by strength from B-grade cinema to being the “number one actress of the country”, she considers her contemporaries “have had no growth”.

The 28-year-old’s post Queen phase has seen Ranaut featuring in and bagging plum projects — including Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Katti Batti, Rangoon, Rani Lakshmibai and Simran.

“This is just the beginning,” Ranaut told IANS in an interview, and added that for the “longest time I was struggling and nothing was falling into place, and I didn’t have offers”.

“I started from ‘B grade films’ and today I’m the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform,” she added.

Without naming anyone, the two-time National Award winner of India said, “The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight, and are the same even today.”