Sara Ali Khan, raised by her mother and veteran actress Amrita Singh, expresses deep gratitude for her grounded upbringing, which has kept her away from the glaring spotlight associated with stardom. In the latest episode of Mid-day’s ‘Sit With Hitlist,’ Sara reflects on her early experiences with the paparazzi and her time at the prestigious Dhirubhai Ambani school, where she wasn’t given special treatment despite her background.
Sara candidly shared, “I’m trying not to sound wrong, but I’m trying to be honest also, the more grateful I am for the upbringing that I’ve had. The more years I’m spending here, the more I’m realizing how easy it would have been for my mom to have brought me up differently and how grateful and thankful I am that she didn’t. We didn’t grow up thinking that paparazzi is our birthright.”
Sara Ali Khan reminisced about the time when she was photographed even before her debut film ‘Kedarnath’ hit the screens. She articulates this experience by saying, “I was trying to strike the balance between being rude to them (paparazzi) because I didn’t want to be, but also not being photographed because what have I really done to be here? Like why am I being photographed? And all this happened before the whole nepotism chapter and chatter had started like a year into my work. I myself had started feeling that yes my mother is an artist, my father is an actor, but I am not, so why are they behind me? I am really grateful that I kind of grew up thinking like that because now when they photograph me, I have a very good equation with them because somewhere I think I’ve earned it.”
Sara Ali Khan emphasized how her upbringing with her mother, Amrita Singh, kept her grounded and authentic, with little connection to the film world. She explained, “Radhika Madan, Janhvi Kapoor, and Ananya Pandey are friends I made at work. I was not like, ‘Oh, our parents have been actors previously’, so now we have special pani puri together. That was not the vibe at all.”
Sara also shared that, for a long time, she didn’t require personal security. “I didn’t grow up having seven people around me handing me things,” she noted. “Mom was very certain that she wanted us to have a full life external to the films,” she further added.
On the work front, Sara Ali Khan is set to share the screen space with Ayushmann Khurrana for the first time in an upcoming action comedy film. This fresh pairing has generated a lot of buzz. The film will be produced by Dharma Productions and Sikhya Entertainment.
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