You all must
have seen that the son of a doctor, most of the times, ends up being a doctor.
The son of an army man ends up joining defence and the son of an accountant has
a high chance of ending up being an accountant. However, in all these cases,
while the child ends up going in to the same profession as the parent, he or
she has to go through the required education
- first to qualify and later years of training to be popular and
successful.
However,
there are two industries that beat this trend. Politics and Acting. In these
two professions, just because your parent or a relative is a politician or an
actor gives you a clear chance on the platter to become one yourself. Most
popular politicians today are second generation and actors are the first
generation. While you may intuitively know this, Manoj from my wife’s office
pointed this out. Then I thought it would be nice to document it to understand
its intensity.
The acting
industry
Amitabh
Bachchan – Abhishek ; Anil Kapoor – Sonam
; Rishi Kapoor – Ranbir ; Shatrughan Sinha – Sonakshi ; Vinod Khanna –
Akshaye ; Feroz Khans – Fardin ; Raj Babbar – Arya ; Amjad Khan – Shadaab ;
Sashi Kapoor – Sanjana ; Salma Agha – Sasha ; Mithun Chakraborty – Mimoh ;
Jackie Shroff – Tiger ; Shakti Kapoor – Shraddha ; Kamal Hasan – Shruti ;
Dharmendra – Sunny, Bobby, Esha ; Jeetendra – Tushar ;Rajesh Khanna – Twinkle ;
Tanuja – Kajol; Sharmila – Saif/Soha; Mahesh Bhatt – Alia ; Randhir –
Kareena/Karishma ; Shabana Azmi – Tabu & Farah (nieces) ; Dev Anand –
Shekhar Kapoor (nephew) - Purab Kohli
(nephew of Shekhar Kapoor) ; Smita Patil – Prateek Babbar ; Guru Dutt – Amrita
Rao (her grandfather and Guru Dutt were second cousins); Nassir Hussain – Amir
Khan (nephew) – Imran Khan (nephew); Anupam Kher – Sikandar Kher ; Mukesh -
Neil Nitin Mukesh; Suresh Oberoi – Vivek ; Aparna Sen – Konkana ; And before
Rajnikant gets upset and wipes Google out of the world – Soundarya, his
daughter.
Then there
are those that are related to Producers and Directors: Bonny Kappor – Arjun ;
Vashu Bhagnani – Jackie ; David Dhawan – Varun ; Harry Baweja – Harman ; Yash
Chopra – Uday ; Gulshan Kumar – Kishen Kumar (I thought I had erased him from
my memory)
The
political industry with little more detailing
Amit Mitra
FM of West Bengal(grandson of Subhash Chandra Bose) ; Padmaja Naidu former
Governor of West Bengal (daughter of Sarojini Naidu) ; Abhijit Mukherjee MP
West Bengal (son of Pranab Mukherjee, who was himself son of Kamada Kinkar
Mukherjee, freedom fighter and member of West Bengal Legislative Council) ;
Nandamuri Harikrishna, MP of Andhra Pradesh and Ex Transport Minister(son of NT
Rama Rao, former CM of Andhra Pradesh) ; Daggubati Purandareswari, Minister of
State, Textiles (Daughter of NTR), Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy, MP (son of
Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, former CM of Andhra Pradesh) ; Y.S. Jagan Mohan
Reddy, MP (Son of Y.S.Rajashekara Reddy, former CM of Andhra Pradesh);
Mrigendra Kumar Singh, Bihar Youth Congress Leader, (son of Dr. Madhurendra
Kumar Singh, Member A.I.C.C and Prominent Leader of Bihar Congress who was
himself son of Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha, Member of first Lok-Sabha who was
himself son of Sadhu Sharan Singh who was member of Indian National Congress.)
Dr. Lakshmi Narayan Singh, Bihar Congress leader(Nikhil Kumar's son in law, who
was governor of Nagaland who himself was son of Satyendra Narayan Sinha who was
Freedom Fighter and former CM of Bihar, who was himself son of Dr.Anugrah
Narayan Sinha, Freedom Fighter and first Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.
Breathe
deeply...
Pooja Mishra
Jha, Member of Aam Aadmi Party (daughter of Vijay Kumar Mishra, MLA and Ex MP
who himself was son of Lalit Narayan Mishra
Former Railway Minister of India);
Subhash Yadav, Rabri Devi’s brother who herself needs no further
introduction. ; Mira Kumar of Congress is daughter of Babu Jagjivan Ram.
Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister (son of Murasoli Maran who was Former Union
Minister and nephew of Karunanidhi who
himself was TN’s former CM). Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon a Cabinet minister in
Parkash Singh Badal govt. (son of Surinder Singh Kairon MP and grandson of
Pratap Singh Kairon former Chief Minister Punjab), Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy
Chief Minister or Punjab and President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (son of
Parkash Singh Badal, Current Chief Minister of Punjab). Mantar Singh Brar, MLA
and chief parliamentary secretary, Punjab SAD (Son of Jaswinder S Brar, Ex.
Corporate Minister of Punjab: SAD) ; Paramjit Kaur Dhillon, President Municipal
Corporation, SAD (Badal) is Daughter of Jaswinder S Brar)
Breathe
deeply again...
Sara
Abdullah, (married to Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament is sister of Omar
Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, former Union Minister who
himself is son of Farooq Abdullah, former CM of J&K who was himself son of
Sheikh Abdullah former CM of J&K. Then there are Thakreys, Pawars, Patils
and Ranes from Maharashtra ; Yadavs from UP, Scindias and Dangis from MP;
Hoodas, Devi Lal, Bhajan Lal and Bansi Lal clans from Haryana; Patnaiks and
Sathpathys from Orissa, Gowdas from Karnataka and many in the making.
Wow...
looking at the political hierarchies, the acting industry has too much to catch
on to!!!
Oops! I did
forget to mention the Gandhi dynasty...
