From Aryan Khan to Alia Bhatt: A look at the most SHOCKING controversies of 20 star kids

From Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan to Salman Khan, Mahesh Bhatt's daughter Alia Bhatt, and more star kids who were involved in the most SHOCKING controversies.

By Shivani Pawaskar
Published: May 21 2022, 16:57 PM IST

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Star kids under the scanner — Star kids under the scanner

Being a part of the world of entertainment, everything that you do is a public spectacle. And if something wrong happens or by unforeseen circumstances you get embroiled in a controversy, oh the sheer media spectacle that follows. Have a look at the ongoing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial now. The list of controversies it has sparked is eye-popping. Here’s having a dekko at the list of Bollywood star kids who have been involved in some shocking controversies in the past.

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Salman Khan — Salman Khan

One of the other bad boys of Bollywood, Salman Khan, has faced multiple courtroom trials over the blackbuck poaching case, which first surfaced during the shoot of his 1999 blockbuster, Hum Saath Saath Hain. The superstar got relief in the case as late as this year, 2021. Another stain on Bhai's career was his involvement in a 2002 hit-and-run case, which lad led to death and maiming of a few footpath dwellers. He was eventually acquitted of all charged years later in 2015.

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Sanjay Dutt — Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt was not only booked for illegal possession of AK57 rifles and ammunition, but also had to serve jail time. Thankfully and justifiably, he was exonerated of all terrorism charges. Then there was his much-publicized battles drugs and subsequent rehab trips.

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Aryan Khan — Aryan Khan

Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested in October in a drug bust on a Mumbai to Goa bound cruise. He was accused of substance abuse. After being in the jail for about a month, Aryan was released on bail.

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Hrithik Roshan — Hrithik Roshan

The entire fiasco with Kangana Ranaut and the much-talked about email leaks concerning the two and all the mud-slinging over who was guilty over what are like multiple sword dangling over Hrithik Roshan that refuse to fall in a safe zone. There’s also the bit of alleged infidelity that’s said to have led to his divorce from

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Vivek Oberoi — Vivek Oberoi

In his own words, the media conference that Vivek Oberoi called to make his private spat with Salman Khan a public affair was the singular most detrimental factor to his Bollywood career. Then, there have also been a couple of instance where he has taken sly digs at his ex, Aishwarya Rai, and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan.

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Fardeen Khan — Fardeen Khan

Fardeen Khan was caught red-handed purchasing cocaine from a peddler, but since it was a miniscule amount, he was granted bail five days later.

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Tabu — Tabu

Salman and Saif's Hum Saath Saath Hain costar, Tabu, had also faced the same charges of poaching. Like Saif, she, too, was given a clean chit.

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Saif Ali Khan — Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan was also implicated in the same Blackbuck poaching case as Salman, but later acquitted. The Nawab of Pataudi was also arrested, but released soon after, for punching a man and apparently breaking his nose over an argument at a restaurant.

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Ranbir Kapoor — Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor was branded privileged and entitled by the public and received the ire of the media when he took objection to his vacation pics with then girlfriend, Katrina Kaif, finding its way to news channels and web portals sans his permission.

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Aaliyah Kashyap gets hailed for talking about bleeding while having sex for the first time — Aaliyah Kashyap gets hailed for talking about bleeding while having sex for the first time

So, the young girl did a Q&A on her YouTube channel where she was asked about bleeding in sex for the first time, To which she very confidently said that she did bleed a little while some of her friends did and some didn't. And this confidence in the girl bought her a lot of praise.

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Alia Bhatt — Alia Bhatt

Likewise, Alia Bhatt was mercilessly trolled for years for goofing up the name of the then President of India on Koffee with Karan.

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Ananya Panday — Ananya Panday

In the face of the nepotism debate, Ananya Panday’s comment on also having faced struggles created a huge hue and cry on social media.

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Tiger Shroff — Tiger Shroff

Early into his career, Tiger Shroff had made the mistake of joking during a promotional interview (upon being heckled by a journalist about his marriage plans) for the first Baaghi movie about wanting to marry a village woman who’d massage him and cook him warm meals when he returned home from work, which blew back in his face as feminists didn’t see the funny side of it.

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Aamir Khan — Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan made the mistake of speaking about a conversation with wife Kiran Rao about the growing intolerance in the country and perhaps wanting to shift abroad for the safety of their kids on national television, which had riled up several right-wingers and ultra-nationalists.

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Raveena Tandon — Raveena Tandon

Authorities at the Bhubaneswar Lingaraj Temple has lodged a complaint against Raveena Tandon (as star kid as she was Director Ravi Tandon’s daughter), claiming she had shot for an advertisement in the 'no camera zone' within the temple's premises.

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Shraddha Kapoor's shoes collection — Shraddha Kapoor's shoes collection

Shraddha owns a variety of expensive shoe collections which reportedly cost around 10 crores.

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Adhyayan Summan — Adhyayan Summan

Besides all the blackballing that ex-girlfriend Kangana Ranaut had meted out to him and his family, Adhyayan Summan himself had made headlines and courted controversy when he had revealed that ex-girlfriend Kangana Ranaut would make him drink the blood emitted during her menstrual cycle.

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Sooraj Pancholi — Sooraj Pancholi

Sooraj Pancholi has had to face a lengthy legal battle and years of intense media scrutiny for years over accusations of Jiah Khan's mother that she hasn't commuted suicide and Sooraj was responsible for her daughter's murder.

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Rishi Kapoor — Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor (a star kid as he was Raj Kapoor’s son) had found himself in the middle of a controversy copious times due to his incendiary tweets so much so that son Ranbir Kapoor and mother Neetu Singh had said that they would wake up dreading what new tweet he may have posted the previous night. There was also the matter of Chintuji and elder brother Randhir Kapoor being involved in a scuffle with some camerapersons during the Kapoor family’s Ganpati visarjan.