Karan Johar Trolled Again For Nepotism After Shanaya Kapoor Debut Announcement

Karan Johar has time and again been accused of favouring children of Bollywood stars when it comes to casting his films. Recently, Shanaya Kapoor, daughter of Sanjay Kapoor and cousin to actor Janhvi Kapoor was named in Dharma Productions' upcoming film titled Bedhadak. This again started the nepotism in the Bollywood debate on social media.

The film producer has earlier launched many star kids such as Alia Bhatt, Janhvi Kapoor, Ananya Panday and others. It is to be noted that the upcoming film Bedhadak also has two other fresh faces, Lakshya and Gurfateh Pirzada. Many social media users felt that Karan Johar could have gone for some other female actor to launch in his film instead of Shanaya Kapoor.

The trend of star kids getting big breaks instead of actors with no roots in the Bollywood industry has existed for as long as one can remember. In the recent times, the debate has caught out. Actor Kangana Ranaut started the public attacks against Karan Johar and accused him of nepotism. Many joined Ranaut in her accusations and called out the producer for not selecting better actors and going for children of famous actors.

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The film Bedhadak was also called out for being another version of the Student of The Year franchise started by Johar in 2012. The film starred Varun Dhawan, son of fimmaker David Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and Siddharth Malhotra. Another film of the franchise, Student of the Year 2 starred Ananya Panday, daughter of Chunky Panday, Tiger Shroff, son of Jacky Shroff and Tara Sutaria. Both the films had love triangle as the main plot. In Bedhadak, two male actors and a female actor has been cast making it seem like a love triangle plot.

One user wrote, "Same triangle, same dimensions, same marketing tactics of introducing one star kid every film. It speaks more about the audience I guess when stuff like this still continues to generate interest. Credit to KJ for having successfully built a business model around this."