Want to grow thick skin like dad, says Ananya Panday

Actress Ananya Panday, who is making her Hindi film debut with “Student of the Year 2”, says she wants to grow a thick skin like her actor-father Chunky Panday. Asked if she feels the pressure to sustain in the industry especially because she comes from a film family, Ananya told the media here: “I think I do, because my father has such good comic timing. So, that is something that I always hear that, Did you inherit that comedy from your father?’

“My character in the film (SOTY 2) is also pretty funny and she give these one-liners, so I think the pressure is there especially in the comedy department which I will try to hopefully live up to.” What advice did her father give her before her Bollywood foray? “He didn’t give me any advice because he knows that his time was really different as compared to mine. So he thinks that I cannot apply the things which he applied during his acting stint. But I think I have learnt a lot from his behaviour.

“He never changed because of his successes and failures, so I want to be like that. I also want to take jokes in my stride the way he does. He always cracks jokes on himself. I want to grow thick skin like him.” Ananya said her father’s feedback has been the most important for her. (IANS)

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