WE DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT IT ANYMORE : ZARINA WAHAB

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RUBY ZAIDI

Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab’s son, Sooraj Pancholi, has been trying to make it in the movies since 2015’s Hero. Their daughter, Sana Pancholi, was also an aspiring actress in the early 2000s. Interestingly, Sana was supposed to make her debut in 2005’s Shakalaka Boom Boom, but was replaced by Kangana Ranaut. Sana’s father Aditya and Kangana were allegedly having an affair during that time. Later, Kangana accused him of physical and mental harassment and he filed a defamation suit against her. In a recent interview, when Sana’s mother was asked about her getting replaced in her debut film, she said that Sana never wanted to be an actor in the first place.

She shared with Lehren Retro, “That was not her cup of tea. She never wanted to be an actress. Like, how you force in the family, ‘kar lo beta’ but she was like, ‘nahi mumma mujhe nahi karna‘. Firstly, she doesn’t wear sleeveless tops, or other short clothes. She was given a low-neck thing to wear, she came back running. She didn’t even come out of her room. Then they took someone else, that was the main thing. She still doesn’t wear such clothes.” Zarina insisted that Sana “doesn’t want to be an actress.” “We never even talk about it now, not even in a joking way,” she said.