New Delhi: Star kids don't have it all easy. As the evergreen debate on 'nepotism' and 'star kids' continues with every other day some comment from a celeb in an interview highlighting it, now it is Tusshar Kapoor who has lent a voice to the controversy. Jeetendra's son Tusshar Kapoor recently expressed his views at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli. Speaking with Divya Dutta, the actor said contrary to popular perception, star kids don't have it easy.
Saying that he considers himself as an outsider too, Tusshar said, "A red carpet is not laid out for every star kid. While shooting for my debut film, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai, I had to wait for my co-star and another star kid Kareena Kapoor Khan for 12-14 hours as she was simultaneously working on four films. Her first film was yet to release but such was the demand for her that she had already signed all these films.”
Tusshar Kapoor also added that he wanted to dispel this star kid's myth and that is the reason why he wrote a book.
He said, “After my son came into my life, everybody – be it acquaintances, media persons, colleagues or friends – would ask me: How do you manage? So, I decided to publish a book on the subject. Besides, the general perception is that star kids are dumb drop-outs, who can hardly string two words together and I wanted to prove that that’s not true.” Tusshar welcomed his son Lakshya via surrogacy in 2016.
Earlier, in an interview with The Indian Express, Tusshar had said that he had made his own way in the industry. "I was launched in a film which wasn’t a home production. The films which I did were very different, unlike what my father did, be it Golmaal, Khakee, Shor in the City or Dirty Picture. I’ve always taken all the discussions around being a star son or expectations very superficially. The audience needs to judge you and like you. What a few people talk is not important. What the larger diaspora thinks is what matters. It’s okay to have your own place. You don’t have to be like someone else.”