Ananya Panday, Chunky Pandey’s daughter, is seen in a girl-next-door avatar for her first movie, SOTY 2. We got in touch with the proud father to know his reaction on Ananya FINALLY making her debut.
Student Of The Year 2 (SOTY 2) starring Tiger Shroff and debutante Ananya Panday and Tara Sutaria has now gone on floors. Producer Karan Johar shared the first look of the cast this morning and it has got everyone talking.
While the new set of students look promising, it can be recalled that Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt had made their debut with the first part of the movie. Five years down the line, the trio has established themselves as bankable stars.
Ananya Panday, Chunky Pandey’s daughter, is seen in a girl-next-door avatar for her first movie. We got in touch with the proud father to know his reaction on Ananya FINALLY making her debut. An overwhelmed senior Pandey said that he feels ecstatic about this and tears of joy seeing the posters.
He said, “I feel like standing on the roof and shouting. I am so excited,” and added, “This is something which was in the pipeline for almost a year and it pretty much reminds me of the time when I got into films myself. When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it. In fact, I remember just two days before the muharat my parents found out that I am doing a film. But with her, it has been different, the way her debut movie has got announced. I had tears in my eyes this morning when I saw the posters. I am a little too overwhelmed right now.”
Having been in the industry for so long and being aware of the grill, has he given any advice to her. To this Pandey said, “Well, I only keep telling her that you should not try and imitate anyone. You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm. She is quite ready for that. In real life, she is a very good student. She has got a scholarship in America too but we have deferred the admissions by a year because she got the movie. So, let’s hope the real life student becomes a good reel life student.”
Chunky also feels that Ananya was born to be a part of SOTY 2. “The little I can tell about my girl is that she was born to do Student of the Year because when the original came both my girls loved the movie so much,” he recalled adding, “They were crazy about Varun, Sid and Alia and were going on and on about it. Finally the elder one is doing part 2, it is too surreal. She couldn’t have asked anything better than this. She went and auditioned for it and when she got confirmed, her excitement was next level.”
However, being a star kid comes with its own sets of expectation. Is Ananya feeling the pressure too? Ask Chunky about it and he added, “I had a lot of pressure too as both my parents were doctors and everyone wanted me to be a doctor. But, we overcome it usually. I think she has chosen what’s right for her and I am sure she will do a good job. I mean obviously right now she is known as my daughter but I am sure that by the end of this year I will be known as her father. “
