Chunky Panday has gone on record to say that he is proud to be known as Ananya Panday’s father. While Ananya is now on a career high after several successful films, awards and accolades, things were not always the same for the Pandey family. The father-daughter duo recently chatted for We Are Young and they opened up on a lot of things, including their “low phase.” The actor let down his guard and shared his experience of the time when he had no films and had to change career paths to earn money. He also revealed why he never took his daughter or wife Bhavana Pandey to his film sets.
Talking about his rock bottom, the actor said, “Why did you never come to the set because when your mother and I got married, I was in that bad phase. I had just returned from Bangladesh and was trying to find work for myself. Was trying to. I never got into the thing of calling you on set or calling mom on set, and it just stayed that way.”
Talking about this decline in his career, Ananya asked her father if he ever felt like it was the end of his career, to which Chunky replied, “Oh yes. The end means it was like Like Musical Chairs was happening and when the music stopped, you didn’t have a chair to sit on, I mean, I had blockbuster movies and this was right after eyesWhich is considered an iconic hit. Actually I had no work. the only movie i got who is thirdAnd after that it dried up completely.”
His struggle started after his Bollywood career ‘dried up’. “I went to Bangladesh, did films there. Luckily they worked out and I made that my home for 4-5 years. But yes, it was scary. But I never really stopped working. I started an event company Then I started doing programs, you know, I started doing land deals, buying properties… imagine I was trying to do door to door work and I said that I had to make a living. need and so I did all these things but I Learned a lot in the process. So I mean, I’m totally devastated,” he revealed.
Ananya also asked whether her father’s parents ever offered help during his bad times. “If you are a man and you have started your career, now you can’t go back to them and say I need money,” the actor said. But he also shared that his parents were not aware of his poor financial condition at that time.
Ananya Pandey started her Bollywood career student of the year 2 in 2019, and since then he has made his mark in the industry by choosing the right films and projects. Will be seen in the second season of call me baeAlso the next film of Dharma Productions moon my heart Which was announced recently.