Seven years since Kangana Ranaut’s explosive comments on Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan 5, nepotism in Bollywood continues to be a popular topic of conversation. Much like in many other families with a film lineage, the younger generation of Kapoors including Boney Kapoor’s children Arjun Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor, are taking the legacy ahead. Interestingly, all three began their careers with different production houses.
Despite being a producer himself, Boney chose not to launch his own kids and has only cast two of them in two of his production ventures – Tevar and Mili. In an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, he reveals that his children have never requested or expected him to make films for them to further their careers. “Such a situation has never arose. Arjun has never come to me asking for work. He knows the scripts I’m working on. He also knows that eventually what is mine is his. It was his choice to do Tevar,” he says.
However, the veteran producer recently announced No Entry 2, which will star Arjun alongside Diljit Dosanjh and Varun Dhawan. He now tells us that along with this sequel, another film with Arjun is also in the works. “I’ll soon be doing a couple of more films with him – No Entry 2 and another solo hero film. I liked the subject of the latter and I narrated it to him and he has also liked it a lot. We’re working on that film as well,” he shares.
Quiz him about his plans of working with his daughters and he states, “With Khushi, I haven’t reached the stage where I’ve told her that I’ve got a subject for her and that I would cast her in it. But she’s there in my mind. As for Janhvi, I do have a subject in my mind that I want to produce.”
So, does this mean that he’s keen on breaking the mould and back his children now? “I wouldn’t want to push myself into their career trajectories. What they think is good for them should get a precedence over what I think will benefit their careers. I definitely do have more experience and I can tell them the right from the wrong. But I should also respect their intuition unless I strongly feel what they’re doing is wrong,” he points out.
Talking about how he has rarely tried to talk them out of doing certain films, he remarks, “There have been occasions where I’ve struck down their opinions and there have also been times when they’ve convinced me what they’re thinking or doing is right.”
According to him, he would rather let his directors take the final call when it comes to the casting choices in his productions and not let his bias come into play. “The thought of casting my children in my films doesn’t come to my mind. I believe I’m an honest producer and I give the casting right to the director. I may suggest names that I feel will work for the film because I’ve more experience but when I’ve chosen somebody to direct a film, I must respect him. Seniority doesn’t make me a Hitler or give me the veto power,” the Maidaan filmmaker asserts.
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