Originally posted by: vcs17
I think the discussion on levels of nepotism is very complex, one can broadly say 0 and 1 those without and with connections, but the 1 can be broken down and unless one has comeplet info, it is tough to guage the connections and how they work
1. alia, pooja bhatt had production houses backing them and these production houses could also bring in good directors. pooja worked with vishesh films and mahesh bhatt was a top director then. alia got a curated list of good directors. hrithik also has rakesh roshan producing and directing for him, similarly dhanush has his brother selvaraghavan, even fahadh faasil had his dad (a renowned director, though not a production house), though it was only for debut. varun has his dad and bro, in south jayam ravi has similar set up. having a good director in your bag is a big privelege
2. jhanvi, sonam, arjun, harsh vardhan, allu arjun and most of the telugu stars have a production houses which produce for them and also can distribute etc. additionally the tel stars have fans from earlier generations which is carried over. karthi also had his debut because of suriyas production. kannada rajkumars kids also same.
3. big stars and their kids or those with good connections, dulquer, ram charn, abhishek, mahesh babu, pranav, ranbir, srk's kids, saifs kids, prithviraj, vijay, rajnis daughters, kareena, suriya, prabhas etc. sometimes they have prouduction houses too.
4. those who dont actively promote like kamal hassan and then some who are in the circles like ananya, shanaya etc but may not have productions. sundry like shahid, etc who connected but not huge resources.
lot of these connections and networks are not known and difficult to guage. for example what we think are outside production may actually be funded by these ppl, other business interests, leverage etc.
so it is difficult the know the level of benefit they get.
but at the top level are those in 1 category with production and a good director in their bag, especially alia who got multiple good directors
only ones with no connections currently big are yash, the 3 r's of kannada, actors like ajit, nani, vijay sethupathi, akshay kumar, aryan, tovino, nivin, vikram etc
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