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I was never asked to emulate dad: Bobby
Bobby Deol says he has always looked up to his father Dharmendra as his hero and never as a superstar
It’s almost a ritual that fathers in the Deol family launch their sons. Bobby Deol, who has everything going for him right now, made his debut in the 1995 hit film Barsaat, which was produced by his father, actor Dharmendra. Now Sunny Deol is directing a film that will launch his son, Karan.
Bobby, who will be seen next in Housefull 4 and Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se, gets talking about family and more:
As a star kid, were you affected by the attention and scrutiny that you were subjected to?
I never allowed attention to affect me. I was just ignorant. Definitely, choices are something you make in your personal life. Sometimes, you make a choice and realise ‘shit, yeh kya kar diya maine?’ Only if you knew exactly which script is a box-office hit, you will only do that, so it’s not that easy.
But you are the son of yesteryear superstar, Dharmendra…
No, I have never looked at him like that. He has always been my hero, and I have never thought of him in that way ‘oh I have to match up to this’. The most important thing is to be a good human being and that’s what I have learnt from dad.
Were you ever asked to copy your father’s style in films?
I was never asked to emulate my father. I am different, we have certain gestures that are similar... Some expressions would make people around us say ‘arre yaar this expression of yours is just like your brother (Sunny Deol)’. So I look up to him, I follow him.
Now that your nephew Karan is making his debut in a film directed by Sunny, did you tell him how to go about it?
You can give youngsters a guiding line, but not an advice. The sad part is that only you can make your mistakes, no one can tell you, ‘I made this mistake, so you don’t do it’. No one can make you stand on your two feet. You have to do that by yourself.