So Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh’s daughter and elder sister of Ranbir Kapoor, has succumbed to temptation, after doing a reality web series in Karan Johar’s Fabulous Lives Vs. Bollywood Wives. Asked by a reputed daily in January this year whether we can hope to see more of her in front of the camera after the success of Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives, she had replied, “Inshallah. Never say never. There will be a lot of exciting things coming up, so fingers crossed, we’ll have to just wait and watch.”
From Riddhima Kapoor Sahni to Junaid Khan: Is the Film Bug’s bite irresistible?
Now there is at least one exciting ‘thing’ that has already happened: Riddhima, at 44, has revealed that she is already shooting for a film, that too with Neetu Kapoor, her mom. The yet-untitled film features Kapil Sharma and Sadia Khateeb (The Diplomat) as well. It is titled Dadi Ki Shaadi and the odds are that her mom may even be the ‘marriageable’ Dadi (grandmother) in it!
It is seemingly easy indeed to be bitten by the Film Bug, especially for star kids. And as we can, three more of them have both parents as actors!
Aditya Raj Kapoor
But Riddhima by no means is the first Kapoor to begin late. Her uncle, Aditya Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor’s and Geeta Bali’s son, started acting at the age of 51, and dad Shammi Kapoor was even quite excited about it. But Aditya only did supporting roles in a few films like Chase (his 2007 debut), Isi Life Mein, Dil To Baccha Hai Ji and a few others and soon quit.
A filmmaker (after beginning as an assistant director), Aditya has also been an ace cyclist (he has chalked up 35,000 kilometers around the world), author and businessman and has done TV too as director and actor.
Sonakshi Sinha
The original ambitions of Shatrughan Sinha’s and Poonam Sinha’s three kids were as follows: Luv wanted to be an actor, his twin brother Kussh a filmmaker (he’s finally made it!), and Sonakshi Sinha a fashion designer. She designed costumes for her mother’s production, Mera Dil Leke Dekho two decades back, at which stage she had told this writer, “I am not interested in designing costumes for outside films.” The dream, clearly, was the direction she had taken at SNDT University, Mumbai. Her vocation was to be Fashion Designing!
But in the same year as Luv’s debut in Sadiyaan, Sonakshi began her career with a bang, a cult line (Thappad se darr nahi lagta sahab pyaar se lagta hai!) and a hit song opposite Salman Khan in his home production, Dabangg. As per her, Salman and his brother Arbaaz Khan (the producer of the film) saw a slimmer Sonakshi (she had originally been a bit plump) at Amrita Arora’s wedding and thought she would be perfect for the role. Even now, Sonakshi says that she soon found herself on the sets after the brothers had a script session with her family, “just like (quote unquote) an arranged marriage!”
And the marriage, like so many of her films, has been a whopper hit for her, as she became the first new face of substance in the second decade of the millennium!
Tiger Shroff
An early millennium interview with Jackie Shroff saw the actor telling this writer, “My children are not at all interested in doing movies.” Tiger, he told me then, wanted to make a career in football. And though, today, Tiger has launched the football club, Mumbay FC, and has achieved success in that field as well as that of Mixed Martial Arts, he is now completely into acting, having signed and worked in his debut film, Heropanti, unknown to his parents!
Junaid Khan
Aamir Khan’s and Reena’s son Junaid Khan was originally wanting to study Economics for a specific reason: of how people respond to incentives! It was only when he was about 16 that he developed an interest in acting, first through plays and then gradually with films. And the turnaround came, he says, because it was an extension of studying humans! “Acting, to me, is the ultimate study of human behaviour!” said Junaid.
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