Film Director Karan Johar and actor Saif Ali Khan, who were hosting the IIFA Film Awards, talked about the episode when National Award Winning Actress Kangana Ranaut branded Karan as a “flagbearer of nepotism” on his chat show Koffee with Karan Season 5.
Actor Varun Dhawan joined the Saif and Karan on the stage to receive the Best Performance in a Comic Role for the forgettable Dishoom, Saif Ali Khan joked that Varun had made it big in the industry because of his father, David Dhawan.
“You are here because of your pappa,” Saif joked. To which Varun replied, “And you’re here because of your mummy (Sharmila Tagore).” Karan joined the chorus and said: “I am here because of my pappa (late filmmaker Yash Johar).”
They then said in unison: “Nepotism rocks”.
Varun took a potshot at Karan saying, “There was a song in your film… ‘Bole Choodiyan, Bole Kangana.”
Karan commented, “Kangana naa hi bole toh achha hai… Kangana bahut bolti hai. (It’s better Kangana doesn’t say anything, she talks a lot.”
Source – FirstPost
Honestly, Bollywood’s obsolete existence doesn’t interest me anymore. With movies like Bahubali garnering the right kind of attention for the content they offer, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the progress of regional cinema, Bollywood will soon be forgotten as the nucleus of entertainment, give or take half a decade.
So at a pointless award function, these actors mocked a fellow actor, for she had earlier taken a dig at one of them for fueling nepotism in the film industry, in front of a full house. Clearly, anyone with a silver spoon mocking a self-made professional counterpart is shallow at best but turns out, three Second generation Bollywood celebrities found humor in it.
You know, nepotism isn’t the outcome of Bollywood, in the context of India. We, as a society, have always encouraged nepotism. A doctor’s kid has to be a doctor, a parent working in some PSU will always help his kid get there, and so on. Nepotism is so deep rooted in our psyche that at one point, we even considered the idea of Rahul Gandhi being the Prime Minister, just because he was a ‘Gandhi’.
If you want to move away from nepotism, don’t expect a majorly low IQ entity like Bollywood to lead the way, but start yourself, in the way you choose your news channels, politicians. A 9th pass is not even fit to be a clerk at a government office, but thanks to the wisdom of a few Bihari people, they have a deputy CM of that stature.
Nepotism, everywhere in India, exists because we allowed it to exist, and to blame Bollywood alone would be the act of an escapist.
Also, Saif’s last 7 movies flopped, starting from 2013, after Go Goa Gone, and the last decent movie he had in 2017, Rangoon, was due to the same person he mocked on the stage that day. He has been in news more for naming his son Taimur than any of his movie performances and of course for someone who got a National Award when his mother was the chairman of CBFC, Nepotism sure rocks.