Nawazuddin Siddiqui is all set to fight the nepotism debate as his daughter Shora Siddiqui prepares to follow her father’s footsteps and is now training to be an actor. Nawazuddin, who is promoting his upcoming Zee5 film Rautu Ka Raaz, shared that Shora went and begged her teacher to give her an admission in school’s performing art faculty and is already watching world cinema at the age of 14.
Talking to Film Companion, Nawazuddin said, “My daughter is taking training right now. She herself went and got admitted to the performing art faculty, haath jod ke teacher ke saamne (with folded hands in front of her teacher) she said, ‘I want to learn acting’.”
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He also revealed the components of Shora’s training syllabus and how she’ll be performing a play in her final year. He said, “In that department, in that school, they will be performing a play in the final year, for that they’ll have to stitch their own costumes, they’ll have to do the carpentry work themselves, whatever props will be used, they’ll have to make it themselves, they’ll also have to take care of the lighting, do all the work themselves and at last there will be a show which will be ticketed. This is the kind of rigorous training she is taking. She is doing all of this by herself.”
He said that while he’s never asked her to take up acting, he is supporting her passion in every way possible. “Now that I see that she is taking so much interest, so just as other parents, we too tell her ‘toh chalo kar lo tum,’ (ok, you do it). She is doing it independently and for the longest time, I didn’t even know that she got through the performing arts faculty. I don’t even know what all workshops she does, she attends quite a lot of them, she is doing the summer workshop right now. She searches them herself and tells her mother or me that she wants to do it and asks me to pay the fees.”
When asked if he has been teaching her any acting or if she comes to him for help, Nawazuddin said, “No, ghar ki murgi dal baraabar hoti hai na, waisa hai. She watches a lot of film, watches world cinema. She is all of 14 and she watches one film every day. She had once performed one piece to show me, I asked her how she did it and she said, ‘papa, main puri taiyaari kar rahi hoon. Filmein dekhti hoon main (Papa, I am preparing, I watch a lot of films).’ So its like that, its her passion, so what can I say?’.”
Nawazuddin had earlier shared that his daughter is inclined towards acting. He shares videos of her performing and she has already gained quite a bit of popularity on social media for her acting skills. Nawazuddin and Aaliya also have a son, Yaani.
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