Priyanka Chopra’s mother Madhu Chopra recently opened about nepotism in Bollywood and said that it doesn’t last and undeserving people don’t get work eventually. Earlier, Priyanka had opened up about being worried after some of her films didn’t work in the past and how she was not a ‘nepo-baby’ and didn’t have a family backing to sustain in the industry.
In a conversation on the YouTube channel Breaking StereotypesMadhu said, “When you bring in talent, merit, then you can’t talk about nepotism. It has been going on for generations in every industry. You would want to give the same opportunities to whom you love. Every parent thinks that way. But your responsibility is to hone their talent to deserve that place. Undeserving people get thrown out, nepotism doesn’t last. Nobody will put money on you if you are somebody’s son, you have to have talent. I feel nepotism in a word coined by frustrated people who don’t see this.”
Last year, Priyanka had shared in an interview with Dax Shepherdthat her mom and her were worried when her subsequent films flopped at the box-office in 2008. “I didn’t have that kind of support which exists in a big way in Bollywood movies. They are multi-generational actors that come in and get multiple opportunities vs the ones that come in from outside. You don’t have your uncle making a new movie for you just because your last one tanked,” she had said.
Priyanka will be seen next in Head of State, starring alongside Idris Alba and John Cena. She also has Frank E. Flowers’ The Bluff in the pipeline.
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