Star kids or industry kids as they are called are always looked down upon by the outsiders or other actors struggling to make it big in the movies. But there is no guarantee that if you come with a film connection, you will be successful. Following are some of the stars with filmi backgrounds who came, shone for a short while and then vanished.

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Fardeen KhanLoving paternal launch in Prem Aggan(by the way, what happened to Fardeen’s leading lady Meghna Kothari?) followed by a barrage of big-budgeted fiascos including Khushi and Fida with Kareena Kapoor. After long paternity break Feroz Khan’s son is ready for a comeback.

Harman BawejaFlop debut in Love Story 2050 with ex-girlfriend Priyanka Chopra. Flop post-debut release, the cricket film Victory. Flop comeback last year in Shilpa Shetty’s Dishkiyon. Isn’t it time to go the Uday Chopra way?

TanishaaTanuja’s daughter and Kajol’s laadli behen had made an insipid debut with Shhh and followed it up with inconsequential films like Popcorn Khao Mast Hojao. She then starred in some big  films like YRF’s Neil N Nikki and Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar but it didn’t do anything for her. Recently she came into the limelight with Bigg Boss 7 but her film career has remained stunted.

Prateik BabbarBeing the much-loved Smita Patil’s son got this star an easy entry into the movies. Then what? A  barrage of flops, not all of them Prateik’s fault. The nadir of  miscasting was reached in Aarakshan where Prateik played a student struggling with the job-reservation issue when in fact Prateik had never even struggled for a table reservation in a restaurant. Prateik is now working in a Bangla film. Hope he manages the Bangla dialogues better than Hindi.

Bobby DeolWhere is Bobby? Directors swear Dharam Paaji’s chota puttar  still has a fan following in the remotest corners of India. But where are the movies? Unlike Mallika Sherwat who can survive on Page 3 tattle and semi-nude centrespreads Bobby’s body of work, and not his body, needs to speak. Bobby’s last hit was the family film Yamla Pagla Deewana five years ago.

Luv SinhaHis debut film Sadiyaan had divas like Rekha and Hema Malini and Rishi Kapoor lending support by being a part of it, but even they couldn’t stop it from being a disaster. But to his credit, Shatrughan Sinha’s son has not attempted another film after that!