Mumbai: Actor Rajat Bedi, who returned to Bollywood after two decades with Aryan Khan’s ‘The Ba***ds Of Bollywood’, is all praise for the debutant director who he feels has worked really hard.
Reacting to the buzz around Aryan being Shah Rukh Khan’s son and success being served to him on a platter, Rajat stated: “The show is a result of Aryan and all his associates. That baccha (kid) has worked very hard. Please don’t ever feel that he is Shah Rukh’s son and he’s got everything on a platter. The boy has worked really hard. He doesn’t sleep. He’s been up and about. He shoots on his phone with his friends. He used to shoot the scene in the house and come the next day when the shoot was they and showed us… It was so cute.”
Defending Aryan against the ‘Shah Rukh Khan ka beta’ tag, Rajat told HT, “What Shah Rukh ka beta? There are so many big billionaires and they have kids… Main toh bolta hun do kissi aur bade aadmi ke bete ko sari equipment do aur bolo film bana ke dhikhade (I dare you to give all the equipment to a kid of some other rich person, and ask them to make a film). You can’t, because a star can’t make his child act in front of the camera… Camera pe toh bete ko hi kaam karna hai na baap toh nahi kar sakta. Woh wahan tak leke aa sakta hai, but camera ke aage aur peeche bacche ko hi karna hai… And that is exactly what has happened here (A star can get his kid an opportunity, but it is the kid who has to prove his or her worth in front of the camera or behind the screen).”
Written and directed by Aryan, the Netflix series ‘The Ba***ds Of Bollywood’ stars Lakshya, Sahher Bambba, Raghav Juyal, Bobby Deol, Rajat Bedi and many others.
