Palak Tiwari, who marked sensations with her recent music video Bijlee Bijlee and then Mangta Hai Kya, has now opened up on how she faces rejection for being a ‘nepo kid’, and how she often gets discarded by people who have the notion that anyone who is related to some bigger star, has got it easy and privileged. She also mentioned her mother Shweta Tiwari’s struggles throughout, and how she is always compared with her mother.
Talking to Bollywood Bubble, she recently talked about 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.”
She further added, “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 the struggles she went through being compared with her mother, she 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.”
She explained further and stated, “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 struggles in her life from a young age.”
The Bijlee Bijlee sensation also commented on her mother’s struggles, saying, “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.”
She signed off saying, “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,” as quoted by Koi Moi.
