Johny Lever’s daughter Jamie Lever: There’s favouritism for sure, but there’s no nepotism

With Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the nepotism debate has rekindled and allegations and accusations are being made left, right and centre. Star kids are being bashed and blamed as the reason why outsiders are unable to flourish but, comedy king Johny Lever’s daughter Jamie recently gave a different perspective to the debate as she said that there’s favouritism but no nepotism in the industry.

Talking about nepotism Jamie told Mid-Day, “I can talk about my journey, being a film child, a star-kid, although I don’t like saying that, I think when people talk about Nepotism, it doesn’t apply to all the star kids. Not all-star kids are given the privilege. I’ve had a very different journey. There’s favouritism, there’s no nepotism, there’s favouritism to a certain lot.”

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She further continued, “There’s favouritism to a friend’s child, there’s favouritism to a certain group of people you know. My dad has done his job as his job, he didn’t make it his life. He went to work, shot for his films and came back home, that was his real life. He’s lived his real life which was his family, his friends, his spirituality. We were never a part of any filmy parties, we never went, we were never a part of any group. My dad was never filmy, my mother, as I said, came from a very humble background.”

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Talking about her father Jamie said that Johny wanter her to figure things out herself. “He wanted me to figure this out myself because he also figured it out himself. I got my first film in 2015 with ‘Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon’ and then I did TV shows and people used to ask me why I was not doing films, I said because I don’t get offered. And then I did ‘Houseful 4’. So I got work because of my work. We were never a part of any group. I’m very proud of my journey,” Jamie concluded.

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