Ahaan Panday , the breakout star of Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara, challenges the star kid label, describing his journey as coming from behind a fence. In a recent GQ India interview, the actor and son of businessman Chikki Panday and fitness expert Deanne Panday, emphasized that while he’s surrounded by Bollywood’s inner circle (his uncle is Chunky Panday, cousin is Ananya Panday, and father is a close friend of Shah Rukh Khan), he felt like an outsider looking in. "I can reach out, but I can’t touch what’s on the other side,” he said, framing his privilege as learning from the industry’s periphery, not inheriting a shortcut.

Ahaan on being tagged as star kid

Ahaan Panday addressed the "star kid" stigma, clarifying his unique position. When asked if audiences are harsher toward industry-insid

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