EXCLUSIVE: Palak Tiwari on facing nepotism: It’s not the same when you are a television actress’ child

Palak Tiwari is finding her ground in Bollywood and she has already made her mark with the music video of the Hardy Sandhu song Bijlee. But, it has not been easy for Palak as she has faced a lot of trolling on nepotism as she is the daughter of the television actress Shweta Tiwari. But Palak believes that while people always troll star kids about nepotism, they are actually shaming the parents who have given their kids a legacy. Moreover, Palak added that she is a television actress’ child and it is ‘not the same’ when it comes to getting work and making it in Bollywood. In an exclusive chat with Bollywood Bubble, Palak opened up about facing nepotism and how she ‘actually’ bagged her first job.

Talking about facing rejections, “People don’t like to hear it from me, because people have this notion that anyone that’s related to someone, who has made it- is privileged. I won’t deny that, maybe that privilege is there in certain areas but I have auditioned a lot in my life. As someone who is the daughter of a television actor, that doesn’t have all the boons that you think it will. I have auditioned a lot and have got rejected for ads, there was a point in my life, from 2016 to 2018, I was only auditioning every single day in Lokhandwala, I used to sit in that line and I used to audition with my intro and all. Kuch nai hua. During that process, I got my first ever ad, which is still on my Instagram.”

Talking about nepotism, the Bijlee star said that she has been compared to he mother in the past and her struggle becomes invalid as people assume she is quite privileged, Palak said, “In this industry, I believe that outsiders are marginalised and to a sense that is true, maybe sometimes they are overlooked. But you know there are equal cons I would say of being related to someone that has made it. More than anything else, just the pressure of living up to what they have created and the love that audiences have for them. I know, that no matter what I do, people will always think that my mom is better and that is something that I have never refuted in my life and I will never because she is better. I am a part of her. I am a much smaller part of her. So for me to grow where she is, it will take me a lot of time. But also, my mom had a lot of struggle in her life from a young age.”

 

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Further, Palak added that it is not the parent’s fault that they want to provide for their children, she said, “One thing that I just want to put out there, people may or may not accept it. People, who have worked so much just like my mom who came from nothing, next to nothing and she worked her way up. Would it be fair, if out of that, she gave her daughter nothing? All of that work of hers is gone in vain. Your parents do this so they can make a more comfortable life for their children. You think you are shaming the child, but you are shaming the parent. They have worked so hard. Unka hak banta hai ki woh apne baccho ko thoda provide karein. You can’t take that away from them.”

Check out the full conversation with Palak Tiwari below:

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