Suhana's 18 steps to KhanDON

Gauri Khan announced “Gearing up for a birthday bash,” with a flourish on Instagram. And the daughter was suitably togged out to take on the world – a far cry from the gangly adolescent that we were accustomed to. For all those arguing about the existence or absence of nepotism in the Hindi film industry (thanks to a certain Ms Kangana Ranaut, who has gone on to open more fronts than the iconic Manikarnika can perhaps counter single-handedly) what more proof do we need that the phenomenon is alive and thrivingIJ

For every day we wake up to posts of Taimur Khan having turned baby number one and waving to paparazzi, Sarah Ali Khan’s sartorial choices, Ananya Pandey’s shenanigans on the sets of Student of the Year 2 or Shanaya Kapoor having done us (and the entire world) the honour of graduating from high school, no less! And incidentally the three – Suhana, Ananya and Shanaya are besties. So each feeds off the other. If that was not enough, we have Aradhya strutting on the red carpet with her mother Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at Cannes. Talking of star kids, Misha Kapoor even announced the arrival of her sibling for eternity to see. The bump is a star too. What this dumping of images does is to addict a generation to their poster value and incubate a demand for their consumption.  Nepotism anyoneIJ