Naseeruddin dismissed the debate and said, “I don’t understand this insider-outsider nonsense that’s going on. I mean, it’s a whole lot of rubbish and we should be put an end to this, it’s bulls***. Why would not I, who have had a secure happy life as an actor, encourage my son to go into the same profession? Would not an industrialist do it, would not a lawyer do it, would not a doctor not do it? Would not anybody do it? You mean to say that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s descendents should not have become singers?” He added that ‘nepotism gets you to a certain point’, after which it takes talent for survival.
Are people not understanding what he is saying or are they lapping up this garbage because it's Naseeruddin speaking against Kangu?
He isn't even addressing the nepotism argument, but twists it to saying that it's a parent-child thing - which doesn't make sense because that's not nepotism.
Let me explain using a family of doctors.
Scenario 1: Parents are doctors. Parents want kid to become doctor and encourages them to work hard, study, get into a good medical school, and then into a hospital. Work: 100% child, but parents are supporting indirectly.
Scenario 2: Parents are doctors. Parents want kid to become doctor so they get the kid admitted into a fancy college -> fancy medical school, and when the kid fails to find a job, they open up a clinic so their kid can work there or they convince their doctor friends to hire their kid because "he's so great!"
Pause here and ask which scenario is nepotism.
Parents encouraging children is not nepotism, and I would even argue that making their kids' lives slightly easier by acting as a helping hand isn't nepotism either.
But Naseeruddin clearly lines himself up with the nepotism gang with his later statement "nepotism gets you to a certain point" after which it takes talent for survival.
Why is nepotism allowed to be the magical gate pass into an industry that thrives on creativity and talent? While, yes, talent is needed for survival, the nepotism card gives a person more "try-agains" than the average actor. So while Average actor A can act, but doesn't get good opportunities and thus, ultimately falls away, Nepotism actor B gets great opportunities, even though a rock has more emotion than them.
In sum, Naseeruddin - if you don't "understand this insider-outsider nonsense that’s going on," kindly keep your nose out of this because your statements speak clearly for you. You don't understand this one bit.
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