My Parents Didn’t Encourage Me To Be An Actress : Soha Ali Khan, Bollywood actor Soha Ali Khan, an Oxford graduate, says her parents didn’t particularly encourage her to take up acting but never discouraged her from following her heart either.
The youngest beautiful and talented daughter of popular Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore and the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi said, “As far as acting is anxious, I wouldn’t say I was discouraged from acting but I was not encouraged to be an actress. My parents certainly felt my personality was not matched to acting in Indian movies and so I would be happier and better at doing something else.”
My Parents Didn’t Encourage Me To Be An Actress : Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan exposed her parents were always really conscious about her. “Also, they felt, like any parent, that there was a lot of race, anxiety and volatility in the Bollywood movie industry.”
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The Rang De Basanti star was adamant on pleasing her parents who wanted her to opt for a “stable” profession – and so she tried her luck working as a banker. “It was about making my parents proud and especially for my father. I wanted to make him proud. I knew he wanted me to do something more in the corporate space. So I tried exactly that but my heart was really not in it, which is why then I started working in films. It was a difficult choice but I knew my parents would embrace it whole-heartedly.”
My Parents Didn’t Encourage Me To Be An Actress : Soha Ali Khan
She continued, “Ultimately, they wanted me to be happy. They were not ones to dictate that ‘You’re not allowed to do this, or you must do this’. They believed in letting me go and let me live my life.”
