Six years after kick-starting her career as a singer, Dhvani Bhanushali is now making her acting debut with Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam, which is co-produced by her father Vinod Bhanushali along with Laxman Utekar. Dhvani acknowledges the scrutiny on youngsters coming from a family with film connections and in an exclusive conversation with News18 Showsha, she talks about nepotism and what the reactions of being launched by her father can be like.
She has no qualms in ‘accepting’ that she’s ‘privileged’ and adds, “My dad has worked very hard to earn this privilege. He comes from nowhere. I’ve seen different phases of life. When I was born, we had nothing. He has built this life up over a span of 27 years.” However, she isn’t the one to ‘sit and negate the opportunities’. Talking about it, she says, “I’m obviously going to take them because I want to take the legacy ahead.”
The Leja Re and Vaste hit-maker candidly states that there’s nothing wrong with exploring the opportunities she’s blessed with. “Why shouldn’t we create opportunities for ourselves? Everyone will do it for their children. It’s not like parents serve things to their children on a silver platter. You obviously have to work hard for everything. And I’m putting my head down and working. It’s up to the audience to accept or reject me after watching the film,” Dhvani tells us.
Referring to how Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam happened to her ‘cosmically’, she points out, “The fact that I come from privilege doesn’t have to define if I should do a certain thing or not. If an opportunity to act, which is something I wanted to do, has come my way, I’ll have to take it. If I reject it just because a few people think that it has come to me because of my privilege, it’s not right.”
But unlike many, Dhvani feels that her ‘privilege is slightly different’. “While I talk about privilege, it’s a given that I don’t come from a film family. It’s not like my dad’s an actor who everybody knows. I come from money and I really respect the fact that my dad has spent so many years earning it and now I can live my dream because of his effort. I’ve built my name over five years. People know me because I’m a singer. They could’ve written me off back then as well. But they accepted me and I’m genuinely very grateful to them,” she remarks.
Dhvani further reveals that she wasn’t being offered roles from outside her dad’s production house and so, she grabbed the opportunity that came up internally. “It’s not like I just landed up on the sets of Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam and thought to myself ki picture hai toh kar lete hai. I spent two years to get myself trained. I’m very grateful for this. But this was the only opportunity I had. It’s not like everybody was calling me to be a part of their films. It’s not like I’m being flooded with opportunities from outside,” she says.
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