Ajay Devgn talks about nepotism; Says, 'The struggle is similar for everyone'

The latest episode of 'Koffee With Karan season 8' featured Ajay Devgn and filmmaker Rohit Shetty. They talked about how youngsters are struggling to make a living in the film industry. Ajay spoke about nepotism and said that today social media has so many things like nepotism, but people don't realise that the generations have worked very hard to reach here. It's not an easy story.

The actors also talked about how people like their fathers would come to Mumbai, give themselves years, and if the project didn't work, they would visit production houses every six months to ask for work. He added that 30–40 years pass by in this struggle. Whether you belong to the industry or not, the struggle is similar for everyone: you have to work hard. They are still working hard. Both his ankles are broken; people don't see that hard work. When Rohit came as an assistant, he didn't have the proper money to have food.

Ajay revealed how his father, Veeru Devgan, ran from his Punjab home at 13, came to Mumbai without a train ticket, and was sent behind bars. He eventually found a cab cleaning job. He then turned into a carpenter and went on to become a gangster. The actor further said that it was senior action director Ravi Khanna who spotted his father during a gang's street fight and made him a fighter in films.

Rohit Shetty also talked about his father, MB Shetty, who was an action choreographer and actor in the 1970s but died when Rohit was only 8–9 years old. To earn money after his father's demise, his mother resumed work in films as a junior artist.


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