Abhimanyu Dassani, son of Bollywood actress, Bhagyashree and Himalay Dassani, is currently neck-deep busy promoting his upcoming film, Nikamma starring Shilpa Shetty and Shirley Setia. However, the actor had made a powerful impact with his debut movie, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, but rose to fame because of the Netflix-released film, Meenakshi Sundareshwar with Sanya Malhotra. He has won his audience's hearts before and is ready to do that once again.
He enjoys a massive fanbase but being a kid of a celebrity has not always been easy for the actor, Abhimanyu. In a recent media interaction, Abhimanyu opened up about the hurdles and the abuses from the netizens that he has to face every day being a star kid and talked about it in depth.
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In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, Abhimanyu Dassani revealed how the nepotism debate can get harsh in real life and how many disadvantages he has to face being an insider. Talking about the same, Nikamma actor mentioned that he has got several abusive messages over time and said:
"Absolutely. I have woken up to hundreds of messages abusing me and telling me that I don't belong here. It still happens, and I feel it is quite narcissistic in a way that I have to prove myself to someone who doesn't know films really. But it's okay, it's part of the game I guess. I have got all the disadvantages of being an 'insider' and I have got all the disadvantages of being an 'outsider'."
Going deep into the conversation, Abhimanyu shared that he had stopped taking money from his parents ever since he had turned 15 years old. Adding to it, the actor revealed that he had jumped through careers to find his own on the sets of the films where he had started by assisting. He further mentioned:
"Everyone has gone through that phase where you don't have a direction in life, where you don't know who you are. The earlier that happens the better. I jumped from one thing to another to find where I belong and I found myself on set when I was assisting. At 15, I stopped taking money from my parents. To make a body, I didn't have money for a trainer or to buy protein or anything like that. I was a vegetarian, so first I started with eggs and would have raw eggs at a nearby street vendor."
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For the unversed, Abhimanyu, before making his Bollywood debut had assisted director, Rohan Sippy on his films like Dum Maaro Dum and Nautanki Saala! Later, he had gone to study at New York Film Academy and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. And then Abhimanyu had come back to kickstart his acting career with Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota!
What are your thoughts about the debate around nepotism in Bollywood? Let us know!
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