Try finding a better villain than me. I am the best of the worst!
I am extremely frustrated with my son Ishaan Khattar being referred to as 'Kapur' time and again in the media. I am anguished and feel helpless.
You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a launch you are getting - everyone has to begin somewhere.
It is foolish to compare Shahid and Ishaan. Shahid has made it on his own. So will Ishaan. He did not get a Majid Majidi film because he is Shahid Kapoor's brother.
While acting with Amitabh Bachchan, the legend of Hindi cinema, and superstars like Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar, I observed how they interpret cinema and make it an experience to cherish for their audiences.
As voiceover artistes, we don't transcribe; we translate. One has to communicate what the character is feeling, and introduce humour where needed with a regional flavour that the audience can relate to.
With Netflix here, more shows will be dubbed to reach as many as eyeballs as possible.
My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn the craft.
For me, becoming a father at 50-plus was another challenge, but then, I am neither the first one, nor the last in this category.
I would never give a piece of advice whether it is a personal or professional one as I don't believe in it.
After a time, all children have to be on their own. Though as parents you always want to cushion them, however, when life throws new challenges, they have to take their own calls.
A lot of nepotism that exists, actually, exists outside this industry because in this industry, behind the camera a director's son becomes a director and a producer's son becomes a producer and that is still understandable that they are carrying their legacy but for actors, it is very very different.
Like I say, every child is born with his or her destiny; what he does with it is what matters.
After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.
I was fortunate enough to work with legends like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee, Vijay Anand and Yash Chopra, and contemporary filmmakers like Farhan Akhtar and Karan Johar.
My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.
Emotions have a way of transcending geographies and cultures and hence I don't think that an Indian woman is any different from a Turkish woman.
I am a staunch believer that every child is born with his own destiny and I would want to do everything possible for my kids for as long as I am around.
Acting can happen in cinema, on television, on stage.
Ishaan looks up to Shahid. When Shahid started his career Ishaan was a child.
