Abhishek Bachchan opened up about the pressure one has to go through when he/she is a star kid
Bollywood stars enjoy unparalleled love and stardom in and outside the country.
They more often than not have a huge fan following, with their followers going to extremes to just get a glimpse of their favourite celebrity.
Not just actors, but even their family is continuously under media glare, with fans and followers constantly wanting to know what is going on in, both their personal and professional lives.
The fad for star kids and knowing what they are upto hasn't started with Taimur Ali Khan. Since time immemorial star kids have been under scrutiny.
Undoubtedly they receive a lot of love and attention from the other end of the industry, but they also undergo a lot of pressure to match up to their parents.
Son of one of the most celebrated actors of Bollywood, shehenshah Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan recently opened up about handling pressure as a star kid and how he handles the weight that comes with his surname.
While speaking to filmmaker Shoojit Sircar for The Telegraph in Kolkata, the Manmarziyan actor said that very early in his career he learnt that it would be “inhuman to carry the burden of that pressure; anyone will get crushed under it.”
Time and again Abhishek is also criticised for several things under the sun.
While sometimes he shuts trolls, the other times he just ignore.
During the interview, this time however, the actor when asked about criticism and his reaction to it, replied saying, “It destroys me and I want it to destroy me. I would stick up my movie reviews on my bathroom mirror and highlight all the portions that said how bad I was. I would see my films almost every day. I am not a megalomaniac, I do it for educational purposes.”
Abhishek also went on to say that he faced a lot of hardship at the beginning of his career.
“Failing publicly is humiliating and sometimes, people take pleasure in seeing you fail. I faced a lot of hardships at the beginning of my career— I would get thrown out of films, replaced, I wouldn’t be paid what was contracted. I slowly realised that it’s a business and you just have to pull up your socks and keep carrying on.”
The actor also recalled an incident from the sets of his debut film Refugee.
He said he was shooting the first scene of the film and over 2000-3000 people had come to watch Amitabh Bachchan’s son.
“The scene began and I started pouring water into a jerrycan and had to look up and say my line. The shot went on forever. I finished pouring all the water and no one said ‘Cut’. JP saab looked at me and said, ‘And?’ And I was like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘Where’s the rest of the dialogue?’ I had no idea what he was talking about. I was then told that I had a three-page soliloquy after the first line, which I had completely switched off from!,” he said.
Abhishek Bachchan further added saying that he completely lost it after that and gave 17 retakes.
He could imagine JP Dutta calling his father and telling him it was all a huge mistake. He said he was worried Anupam Kher and other senior actors will say the same.
“That evening as I was driving back to the hotel, it dawned on me that I had spent more energy that day thinking about pressure, perception and what people are going to say vis-a-vis my parents, when actually those energies should have been channelled into doing my job. And I decided that day that I’m never going to think about this,” he added.
Abhishek Bachchan was last seen in Anurag Kashyap's Manmarziyan which also starred Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal.
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