Actor Sooraj Pancholi says he told his parents, actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, of his Hero offer after more than a year.
“I never told them that I wanted to be an actor. In fact, when I was offered Hero, I didn’t tell mum and dad for one to one and half years. And only when I received the narration of Hero, I told mum and dad about the offer and asked them if I should do it and they told me that if I wanted to do it, I should do it. So there was no pressure,” he said at the launch of a cover featuring him and his mentor Salman Khan for Stardust magazine.
Both of Pancholi’s parents are respected actors and there’s some pressure on a star child to live up to those credentials. But Pancholi differs.
“I do belong to a film family but my family is not at all filmy. And we’ve never discussed films at home. We don’t watch films together. I’ve seen only two films of my mum and about two to four films of dad. So it was never like that.”
Pancholi also stated that the bond between him and Khan grew on the set of Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger where he was the last assistant. After the film, Khan offered him the film on his birthday late in the night.
Hero is a remake of the successful film directed by Subhash Ghai, which is being directed by Nikhil Advani. The film is co-produced by Khan and also marks the debut of Athiya Shetty.
