Celebrity fathers in Bollywood just don’t preach, they act and ensure that their wards are out of any mess self-created or otherwise. Most times than not, papa’s are successful. Shibaji Roychoudhury brings you some such jodis as a Father’s Day special
If a quintessential maa has ruled Bollywood for over 100 years, there is a maibaap off screen who ensures all is hale and hearty with his children. Says whoIJ Say filmi children who have been rescued out of deep muck thanks to a father figure.
So, while yesteryear actor Aditya Pancholi is having sleepless nights trying to find ways to rescue his only son, there are other fathers trying to provide a befitting launch pad for their children’s debut.
In 2001, when Fardeen Khan was caught with the possession of cocaine, he was accused of violating Section 27 of NDPS Act and was arrested. His father Feroz Khan bailed him out. Khan had made a statement at that time saying that Fardeen was framed for buying drugs and wrongly accused. He also got his lawyer, Ayaz Khan to handle this case. Although, Feroze Khan died in 2006, the case finally resolved in March last year when Fardeen was acquitted.
“My dad’s words of wisdom changed me as a man and I owe everything to him. He was, is and will always be my hero,” Fardeen Khan says from Mumbai. He adds that it was his father who coaxed him to take up a rehabilitation programme to give up drugs.
It is not just the betas who have been in a soup and needed fatherly guidance. Even girls have been caught in a situation. It took a Rishi Kapoor and Anil Kapoor to sort out matters that went out of control owing to a discussion on Koffee With Karan where Ranbir Kapoor was made the butt of some obscene jokes. Papa Kapoor immediately retaliated accusing Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor of having no class.
That’s what irked our Mr India who stood tall to defend his darling daughter, Sonam. “Rishi lashed out at the girls for being immature but where was his maturity while deriding the two girls of his daughter’s ageIJ All that is in the past. Now, things are fine. Ranbir-Deepika have done a film together and Rishi will be playing Sonam’s on-screen father in an upcoming untitled film,” Anil Kapoor tells you.
Even Pankaj Kapoor believes that bygones should be treated as bygones. During the early days of Shahid Kapoor’s career, there were several critics who accused Shahid of being another Shah Rukh Khan copycat but Pankaj came out all guns blazing that his son has already proved his mettle. “I don’t think he has to justify himself any further,” Pankaj Kapoor says.