Chunky Pandey on daughter Ananya: “I’m glad they are calling her a star-kid”

Nepotism has been a massive topic in the Hindi film industry for a long time. And the debate was further amplified after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. Since then, many people on social media have called out star kids and film families for their privileges.

And in an recent interview, Chunky Pandey talked about various topics including about how people address his daughter Ananya Panday as a star-kid, and also being out of work after the era of the 90s began, reports Mid Day.

Regarding his choices of films, Chunky stated, “I only chose multi-starrer films as they were working for me.” He added, “And then came a time after 1993-1994 that multi-starrer films stopped being made. They just went on to solo heroes, it’s like musical chairs happening and suddenly the music stops and I don’t have a chair to sit on, so I was literally out of work.”

He then talked about his daughter and also addressed the issue of nepotism. He said, “First of all I’m glad they are calling her a star-kid so that makes me a big star. I’m seeing the positive sides to it. I keep telling her ‘You know exactly how you got here,’ and Ananya, I always wanted her to be a doctor. Both my parents were doctors and I also tried but couldn’t become one. At the age of 15, she told me ‘Dad, I want to get into movies,’ so I asked her to finish her graduation first.”

He added, “Before going to college in Los Angeles, she auditioned for Student of the Year 2 and she did a couple of auditions. I just asked her ‘What do you want to do?,’ to which she replied, ‘Dad, I really want to do this film.’

Anany’s next film involves a collaboration with Deepika Padukone and Siddhant Chaturvedi with details yet to be released.

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