Rajkummar Rao, who is gearing up for his upcoming film Mr and Mrs Mahi produced by Karan Johar, recently highlighted the dark side of Bollywood. He revealed that he was replaced by a star kid overnight which he called ‘unfair’. However, the film never made it to the theatres. The actor also mentioned that after he joined the industry, he was asked to attend B-Town parties to make contacts. 

During an interaction with the lead actors of Mr and Mrs Mahi on the YouTube channel of Dharma Productions, Karan Johar spoke about nepotism and said, “Sometimes they are using it as a tool to make headlines. Immensely successful people are saying, ‘Oh I felt victimised like an outsider and lost opportunity to a star kid’. Somebody is saying, ‘I didn’t attend a party so I didn’t get a role.’ I don’t know at which party there has been transactions for films.”

Rajkummar replied, “When I came to Mumbai, even I was told that ‘you have to attend parties’. Making contacts is not a problem, but you're not going to a party and going to say, ‘Hi I am here to make contact’. That's not going to happen. But having said that, I was supposed to do a film, but then suddenly I was not in that film overnight. Somebody who is known and happened to be a star kid got that part. In my mind, I was like it was not fair. Just because you can control things, you know some people, you can make calls (it shouldn't be done). But yes, this has happened.”

Watch the conversation here: 

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About Mr And Mrs Mahi

Helmed by Sharan Sharma, Mr and Mrs Mahi revolves around the life of a female doctor (Janhvi Kapoor), who is encouraged by her husband (Rajkummar Rao) to take cricket as her profession. The film is all set to release in theatres on 31st May. The movie also stars Zarina Wahab, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Abhishek Banerjee, Purnendu Bhattacharya, and Yamini Das in significant roles. Notably, Janhvi went through intense training for two years for this film.