Chunky Pandey Says He Is To Blame For Ananya Panday's Koffee With Karan Take On Nepotism, Glad She's Called A Star-Kid

Everyone in Bollywood has their own take on nepotism. Actor Chunky Pandey whose daughter Ananya Panday has been massively trolled in the long ongoing controversy says he looking at the positive side and is happy people are referring to her as a star kid.

Talking to Anupama Chopra in a Film Companion interview Chunky recalled a time in the 90’s when he was out of work. Always being a hero in multi starrer films he was struggling to survive the industry in the single heroes era that set in after ’93-‘94. Looking back at his struggles Chunky says he’s happy that Ananya is being referred to as a star kid which makes him a big star.

Talking about Ananya being dragged into the nepotism debate and trolled the actor said, “First of all I'm glad they are calling her a star-kid so that makes me a big star. I'm seeing the positive sides to it. I keep telling her 'You know exactly how you got here.’”

The actor further said that he tried to become a doctor like his parents but he couldn’t do it and so he thought his daughter would become one. “Ananya was always good at studies and I always thought she’d become a doctor but at the age of 15 she told me, ‘Dad I want to get into movie’.” He asked her to finish her graduation and she was ready to leave L.A. when she got a call back for Student Of The Year 2 for which she had auditioned in between.

The actor also took a stand of Anaya and clarified that he is to blame for statement that got Ananya brutally trolled where she said that her dad had never been on Koffee With Karan. ‘I actually confused her, one day we were having this conversation and I was just telling her, it’s so strange that people that people are saying that you got this film [Student Of The Year 2] because of me, but me myself have never worked in a Dharma Production, I have never been on Karan’s show. So it’s obviously not because of me that you got the film. You got the film because of what you are, what you look like and what you’re capable of doing.’ So that’s what she was saying and it came out in a different way.”

Ananya is all set to star in Khaali Peeli next while Chunky Pandey is starring in the crime thriller web series Abhay 2.