Recently,
filmmaker
Subhash
Ghai
was
in
the
limelight
owing
to
Mahima
Chaudhry's
statements
that
she
was
bullied
by
him
in
1997
after
making
her
Bollywood
debut
with
Pardes.
While
speaking
to
a
leading
daily,
Subhash
Ghai
shared
his
stand
on
the
nepotism
debate,
and
said
that
the
public
is
the
real
judge,
and
they
don't
care
if
the
actor/actress
is
a
star
kid
or
not.
He
told
HT,
"That
debate
was
there
when
I
entered
films
in
1965
too.
The
Raj
Kapoor,
Dev
Anand,
BR
Chopra
family...
but
people
like
Dharmendra,
Sunil
Dutt
came,
Rajendra
Kumar
aaya
na?
These
stars
were
also
popular.
The
essence
is
that
the
judges
are
the
audience,
who
are
strangers.
They
are
not
individuals.
The
public
decides,
they
don't
care
if
you
are
a
star
kid
or
not."
He
further
added,
"Initial
attraction
is
there.
'Kisi
ke
bachhe
ko
dekhne
jaate
hain
'yeh
toh
apne
baap
ki
tarah
lagta
hai,
chalo
dekhne
chalet
hain.'
One-two
films
can
work
on
the
name.
You
see,
only
20
percent
of
children
from
the
film
business
are
successful.
Actors
like
Ashay
Kumar,
Shah
Rukh
Khan,
also
came
from
outside.
I
never
thought
about
this,
when
I
was
working
with
actors
such
as
Jackie
Shroff
and
Minaakshi
Sheshadri.
Aaj
kal
kya
ho
gaya
hai,
we
have
started
looking
at
things
with
a
different
perspective."
In
the
same
interview,
Ghai
also
spoke
about
Mahima
Chaudhry,
and
said
that
the
media
should
forget
about
the
whole
controversy.
He
further
called
Mahima
'bacchi',
and
said
that
she
might
have
given
such
a
controversial
statement
out
of
excitement.
He
further
revealed
that
last
year,
Mahima
had
come
to
his
film
institute
as
a
guest
lecturer
a
couple
of
times,
and
they
are
constantly
in
touch
with
each
other.
The
Pardes
director
also
asserted
that
someone
must
have
provoked
Mahima
to
say
such
things
about
him.