{"id":3674,"date":"2016-07-07T04:10:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2016-07-07T04:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:40:05","slug":"sara-ali-khan-nepotism-koffee-with-karan-star-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Sara Ali Khan. She’s a Lot More than Saif and Amrita Singh’s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>f there were a Coolest Star Kid Award in Bollywood, I\u2019d imagine 23-year-old Sara Ali Khan \u2013 daughter of actors Saif Ali Khan<\/span><\/a> and Amrita Singh \u2013 would\u2019ve won it already. After all, she has redefined the art of the debut that involves star kids securing a Bollywood launch as a return-gift for their surnames, with two back-to-back releases.The actress debuts with Abhishek Kapoor\u2019s <\/span>Kedarnath <\/span><\/i>and follows it up with Rohit Shetty\u2019s <\/span>Simmba<\/span><\/i> in a span of two weeks (of course, Karan Johar is producing one of them). Even by nepotistic standards of ridiculous good fortune, the fact that Sara was afforded an extra big-budget film without having to furnish any kind of audience evaluation, seems a bit excessive. <\/span>\n\nBut in Bollywood, all\u2019s well that begins with a <\/span>Koffee with Karan<\/span><\/i><\/a> outing. With her film debut merely weeks away, Sara Ali Khan timed her first public appearance on the chat show \u2013 becoming the fourth star kid to grace <\/span>KWK<\/span><\/i> this season.<\/span>\n\nNone of us expected Sara to stray far away from the sacred female star kid playbook either. It was understood that she\u2019d be docile like Alia Bhatt, evade questions to craft a politically correct image like <\/span>Sonam Kapoor<\/span><\/a>, and giggle unnecessarily like Parineeti Chopra. But by the end of the show\u2019s 40 minutes, Sara Ali Khan had given the rest of her peers a crash course in individuality \u2013 even though she graced the Koffee couch with her famous abba.<\/span>\n\nDisplaying refreshing maturity, Sara did not make any attempts to sugar-coat her parents\u2019 divorce and admitted that her mother and father are actually happier without each other. When KJo revealed that he shot <\/span>KWK<\/span><\/i>\u2019s first episode with Saif on August 16, 2004, a day after Amrita Singh \u201cthrew him out\u201d, she winked and quipped, \u201cHappy Independence Day to them both!\u201d before making a victory sign. In fact, Sara even considered her father\u2019s second marriage to <\/span>Kareena Kapoor <\/span><\/a>as a \u201cwin\u201d for her because it meant that she had two comfortable homes instead of one uncomfortable one. <\/span>\n\nDespite Johar\u2019s intrusive questions, surprisingly none of Sara\u2019s answers seemed designed for the cameras \u2013 she seemed insistent on not playing the victim. There were no dramatic flourishes or emotional pretense… just a display of her candid personality, devoid of any star-kid predictability.<\/span>\n\nHer refusal to subscribe to a template was evident in her hilarious and blunt equation with her father. Instead of giggling when Saif jokingly said that a guy could \u201ctake\u201d her if he had money, Sara schooled him for making inappropriate remarks and got him to apologise. But the highlight of the episode was when she refused to fat-shame herself, a behaviour very unconventional for Bollywood (think Sonakshi Sinha and Parineeti Chopra post-transformation). Instead, she spoke openly about PCOD \u2013 a disorder <\/span>one in 10 Indian women <\/span><\/a>contend with \u2013 and how it affected her hormone levels to an extent that made it almost impossible for her to lose weight. She watched embarrassing home videos of her past chubby self, while exuding confidence. In fact, her unparallelled candour guaranteed that Saif\u2019s jibes were relegated to the background. <\/span>\n

Despite Johar\u2019s intrusive questions, surprisingly none of Sara\u2019s answers seemed designed for the cameras<\/blockquote>\nSara Ali Khan\u2019s individuality is all the more refreshing, considering we live in an age where every byte is crafted and tailored for promotion. And <\/span>KWK<\/span><\/i> is the stage that allows actors to garner cultural relevance. Appearances of <\/span>star kids<\/span><\/a> on the show follow the same boilerplate of the challenges they face despite receiving everything on a silver platter. The bar for candour is so low that the last time any star kid spoke without rehearsing in front of the mirror multiple times was in 2014, when Alia Bhatt declared that Prithviraj Chauhan was the President of India. <\/span>\n\nYet, for all the candidness on display, the elephant in the room was not addressed. Neither Karan Johar nor Saif Ali Khan broached the subject of nepotism in an episode that was technically a love-letter to nepotism. Their silence was all the more ironic, considering Saif had appeared on <\/span>KWK<\/span><\/i> last season with <\/span>Kangana Ranaut<\/span><\/a>, who launched a no-holds-barred tirade against nepotism.<\/span>\n\nBut Sara Ali Khan didn\u2019t shy away from the n-word. She spoke about it \u2013 just not on the couch. In a <\/span>BBC interview<\/span><\/a> that aired a day before her <\/span>KWK<\/span><\/i> appearance, she accepted that she benefited from nepotism and had the luxury of second chances, \u201cI don\u2019t think I can run away from (accepting) it. It\u2019ll be hypocritical and wrong.\u201d Her stance on nepotism remained the same in a bunch of other interviews as well and she didn’t shy away from being articulate or answering uncomfortable questions head on.<\/span>\n\nJust for that, she should be declared the Coolest Star Kid in Bollywood. Hopefully, we can say the same thing after watching <\/span>Kedarnath<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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