{"id":477487,"date":"2026-02-13T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:27:08","slug":"tusshar-kapoor-on-being-a-single-dad-through-surrogacy-not-asking-father-jeetendra-about-it-he-believes-in-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477487\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusshar Kapoor on being a single dad through surrogacy, not asking father Jeetendra about it: ‘He believes in marriage..’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tusshar Tusshar Kapoor<\/a> is a single father to his son Laksshya. In June 2016, the actor surprised the industry by announcing the birth of his son through IVF and surrogacy, becoming Bollywood\u2019s first single father. Years later, he chronicled that deeply personal journey in his book ‘Bachelor Dad’.In a recent interview, Tusshar has spoken about his decision and revealed that he never thought marriage was his path but always was inclined towards fatherhood. The actor opened up on being a single parent and how he has managed that. He said in an interview with ‘Meri Saheli’, \u201cI am very old school\u2014similar to my father\u2014but at the same time, we are extremely different from each other. After staying in the US for five years, I learnt to live independently. I haven\u2019t even married. I have a child as a single father. However, my father is not like this. He believes in marriage and having a family, he is very old school Indian,\u201d he said.For Tusshar, stepping into single parenthood at 40 felt timely rather than daunting. \u201cOne kid is not all that challenging. I am not a very social person and don\u2019t particularly enjoy travelling. I became a father at 40. I was mature. It was the right time to embrace fatherhood, unlike how our society starts putting pressure on you from the age of 25.\u201dAddressing marriage, he made it clear that his decision was personal rather than ideological. \u201cI completely believe in marriage as an institution, but it wasn\u2019t for me. My calling was to become a father. When I realised that, there were divine interventions. I bumped into someone, got information, met the doctors, and things just fell into place. It wasn\u2019t planned, I went with the flow. I believed in God and kept faith.\u201dAt a time when single fatherhood through IVF was still uncommon in India, Tusshar did not feel compelled to seek validation, even from his own family. \u201cI had no pressure from my parents because I never thought of asking them. I was 39. I met Prakash Jha<\/a> on a flight to Tirupati. We weren\u2019t friends but knew each other socially. While returning, our flights were cancelled and we carpooled. On the way, he asked me, \u2018If you\u2019re not destined to be a married man, why not think of being a single parent?\u2019 He knew a single woman in his family who had become a parent around the same age.\u201dThat unexpected exchange became a turning point. \u201cI then called up doctors. They counselled me. We took it one step at a time, and eventually, I became a father.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tusshar Kapoor is a single father to his son Laksshya. In June 2016, the actor surprised the industry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,242990,134,242985,242988,344,242987,242989,242986,114273],"class_list":["post-477487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bollywood-single-father","tag-entertainment","tag-ivf-and-surrogacy","tag-marriage-and-family","tag-movies","tag-parenthood-at-40","tag-prakash-jha","tag-single-father","tag-tusshar-kapoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}