The Truth About Nepotism

 I think in a country like ours nepotism is everywhere , in all fields of work. It’s just that in some cases it is more prominent than others, like Bollywood. And that is not to say that every star kid that makes it into the industry is talent-less but we cannot deny the fact that they are privileged and got a head start that the other actors didn’t. All actors might be treated equally once they’ve made a name for themselves, but what the industry lacks is equity. Even though the starkids’ parents were themselves outsiders once, they have forgotten all about it now. 

If we see it from the perspective of a parent who wants to give their children the best of everything and have struggled all of their life to do so, it would seem obvious that they want it to be easy for their children and want them to be successful in life and not face the hardships that they had to, to get where they are today. But then again, that does not change the fact that this is an unfair and brutal practice that makes it almost impossible sometimes for new people to come into the industry no matter how talented they are.

The best that I have seen anybody describe nepotism in Bollywood in the least number of words is Siddhant Chaturvedi replying to  Ananya Pandey’s claim that even starkids have to struggle for their careers in the industry, He said, ‘Where their struggle ends, is where ours begins’. Nobody is saying that they don’t work hard for their job, its just that its easier for them to get that job than it might be for people outside the industry.

And acting, like any other job should be given to you because you’re good at it and can do justice to the story and the character and not because you have connections. The truth is, it has always been there, but between all the glamour and our love for celebrities we fail to notice and fail to care.