Despite coming from a family of actors, Soha Ali Khan revealed at the Follow Your Heart campaign, that she became an actor against her parents’ will. What is even more surprising is that the news was more a shock for her brother, actor Saif Ali Khan, Than anybody else.
“When I was 25, I went against my parent’s will and my brother was terrified,” said the 34-year-old actor, reported the Hindustan Times.
“He said, ‘Parents will now blame me because you came and lived with me in Mumbai, you had a perfectly decent job in a bank and it’s my influence. And you better explain to them that it is your choice!’ Which I did,” she added.
Soha, who is a graduate of the prestigious Oxford University and has a Masters’ from the London School of Economics and Political Science, made her debut in Bollywood in 2004 alongside Shahid Kapoor. She admitted that she never dreamt of following the footsteps of her mother, veteran actor Sharmila Tagore, or her brother and become an actor. But it was simply her love for theatre that eventually drove her in this direction and made her leave a secured job.
“I didn’t think that I wanted to be an actor. I really wanted to do something different. I thought if I would become an actor, everyone would compare me to my brother and mother and say that she chose the easy way. [But] I couldn’t help myself, I loved theatre, I loved acting,” she shared while interacting with students.
“Every time I would cry, I would run to the mirror and watch myself cry like an actor’s scene from a film. So I thought there is a part of me that wants to do it. I tried till I was 25 not to do it, and I said I am going to do something different,” said Soha.
So far, Soha does not have any popular films to her credit but she was appreciated for her role in her last film, Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster Returns. The actor, who is currently in the news for dating actor Kunal Khemu, will next be seen in a war comedy, War Chod Na Yar and another movie called, Chaarfutiya Chhokare.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2013.
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