Konkona Sen Sharma says she feels guilty for being a ‘nepo baby’, admits she’s ‘been around film sets since I was a kid’

She said, “I feel guilty on my own, a little bit, sometimes.” She added, “I think I didn’t get called out because she was not a part of Bombay mainstream, my mum had done… Aparna Sen has done some Hindi films but not too many. She was so well known in the Bengali film industry as an actor not as a director, she was a big commercial star…”

Konkona then opened up about how she’s seen her mother on sets while she was growing up. “So I feel I am a ‘nepo-baby’ in the best sense because I have been around film sets since I was a kid, and I have not just been around film sets but also watched my mum editing, dubbing, mixing, doing budgets, having pre-production meetings and all. So it was a very familiar world. But it was not like she had any networks or connections like that in Bombay as such. It is always lovely to be extended the respect that was accorded to her, that’s just I am lucky.” Konkana said.

When asked if her talent could have anything to do with the fact that people don’t pull her into the nepotism debate, Konkona said, “It could be, but it is very subjective. There are all kinds of talents and some people like this and some people like that and it is so nice to have a wide variety of things happening so people can also pick and choose and we are not stuck with one kind of thing.”

On the work front, Konkona Sen Sharma recently directed a segment in Lust Stories 2. Her story in Netflix’s anthology was critically appreciated. The actor made her directorial debut in 2017 with A Death in the Gunj. Her future acting projects consists of The Rapist, which is directed by her mother Aparna Sen and Anurag Basu’s Metro… In Dino.