Bollywood A-lister Rajkummar Rao got honest about his first-hand experience with nepotism in the industry and revealed he lost a film to a star kid overnight. Watch ARY News live on live.arynews.
tv In a recent conversation with his co-star Janhvi Kapoor and filmmaker Karan Johar, often labelled as the ‘flagbearer of nepotism’ in Bollywood, actor Rajkummar Rao revealed that he was once replaced from a film by a star kid, however, karma played its part, and the title never saw the light of day. Touching upon the nepotism and insider-outsider debate once again, Johar said, “Sometimes they are using it as a tool to make headlines. Immensely successful people are saying, ‘Oh I felt victimised like an outsider and lost the opportunity to a star kid’.
Somebody is saying, ‘I didn’t attend a party so I didn’t get a role.'” “I don’t know at which party there has been transactions for films,” he added, to which the ‘Queen’ actor retaliated, “When I came to Mumbai, even I was told that ‘you have to attend parties’.” Rao continued, “Making contacts is not a problem, but going to a party and say, ‘Hi I am here to make contact.
’ But having said that, I was supposed to do a film, but then suddenly I was not in that film overnight. Somebody who is known and happened to be a star kid got that part. In my mind, I think it was not fair.
Just because you can control things, you know people, you can make some calls, it is being unfair.” Read More: Rajkum.