Namashi Chakraborty on growing up with the negativity against Mithun Chakraborty: 'My father never buttered people for his benefit' [Exclusive]

Namshi Chakraborty, who'll soon be debuting in Bad Boy, recently sat down for a fun, charming and sincere Insta Live chat with BollywoodLife, where among the many topic touched upon, the one that we really dived deep into was the unwanted negativity his father, Mithun Chakraborty, used to receive from a section of the media despite being a huge star, churning out hit after hit at his peak. Well, Namashi decided to tell all in this exclusive interview, making for a crackling piece of Bollywood news.

Watch his full interview below:

Few among today's generation are aware of how of how big a star Mithun Chakraborty sir actually was. In the 90s, when romantic films, NRI settings and the Khans were all in vogue, with Sunny Deol and Govinda providing the only action and comedy offsets within desi milieus albeit for the middle and upper-middle class, it was Mithun Chakraborty who surfaced as a messiah of the common working class, who used to flock to watch his matinee and evening shows after getting off their laborious work.

Thus, several of Mithun's film, made on measly budgets, and shot entirely in his adopted land of Ooty, turned out to be bug hits. However, a section of the media and industry kept deriding his efforts, dismissing their returns as catering to the lowest-common denominator — as smugly elitist an attitude you'd ever come across.

When we quizzed Namashi Chakraborty on how his dad dealt with such uncalled for negativity and the lessons he's taken from him, the lad revealed, "When you're not from the film industry, like my father never belonged to film industry, he was from a very humble family, my grandfather was a very simply man — so my father didn't have enough of connections to tell the media to write good about him. Neither did he mingle much in film circles. Whatever he has become today is through his hard work."

Elaborating on how the media choose whom to favour and whom not to, Namashi added, "don't want to badmouth anyone in our industry, but the media is also very selective in whom they want to promote or not. So, the media favours some people a lot and my father never buttered people for his benefit. He did good or bad films like every other actor. But the impression my father has left, being an outside, a lower middle-class boy, having worked in 360 films, acted for 40 years — I feel what harm can a few negative articles do."

Namshi Chakraborty will be making his big-screen Bollywood debut in Bad Boy, helmed by one of India's greatest Directors, Rajkumar Santoshi, who has several classics in diverse genres like Ghayal, Ghatak, Andaz Apna Apna, Damini, Pukar, Khakee, China Gate, The Legend of Bhagat Singh and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani to his name.