Kangana Ranaut to play 80-yr-old in her directorial debut 

Kangana Ranaut has announced that she is turning director with her home production Teju in which she will play an elderly woman. 

Ranaut made the decision to move into filmmmaking after finishing her current project ‘Manikarnika’. The title of her directorial venture will be ‘Teju’ and will see the actress playing the role of the elderly protagonist. “She is a warm vibrant woman, full of life, who doesn’t feel old at all,” she said as reported in DNA India. The film will explore the issues of old age and mortality in an uplifting manner. “These are questions that all of us ask ourselves and each other from time to time. We will explore them in a light-hearted manner in my film dappled with the sunshine of Teju’s personality,” she added.

Teju will goes on floors in December and is scheduled to release by 2018 end. It will be shot in the Himalayas. "