{"id":677277,"date":"2026-05-18T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:08","slug":"sonakshi-sinha-reveals-how-dad-shatrughan-sinha-gave-her-reverse-nepotism-treatment-early-in-career-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677277\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonakshi Sinha reveals how dad Shatrughan Sinha gave her ‘reverse nepotism’ treatment early in career | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a career spanning over 15 years, actor Sonakshi Sinha<\/a> has worked in a variety of films and shows, from action potboilers to police procedurals to the odd rom-com. Now, she is entering the legal drama space with her next film, System. Ahead of the release, Sonakshi sits down with Hindustan Times to chat about the film and how she found her character very relatable, right down to the meta \u2018reverse nepotism\u2019 joke.<\/p>\n

\"ShatrughanShatrughan Sinha with daughter Sonakshi Sinha.Sonakshi Sinha on System<\/p>\n

System, directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, stars Sonakshi as a young public prosecutor who teams up with a court stenographer (Jyotika<\/a>) to fight a murder case against a powerful businessman. \u201cThe film addressed so many issues that we may not even think of. These are derived from real people, real incidents, and things happening around us. At a lot of points, the film makes you question things. Any film that gets you started thinking about stuff is a good film,\u201d says Sonakshi.<\/p>\n

Her character, Neha Rajvansh, is relatable, says Sonakshi, not because of her profession but because of who she is. \u201cThe relatability doesn\u2019t come from the profession she is in, but from the woman she is. She is very flawed, layered, and someone who makes her own mistakes and has her own demons. All these things are very relatable to me, and surely to a lot of other women as well, those who are trying to prove themselves and don\u2019t get things handed to them,\u201d the actor explains<\/p>\n

Sonakshi Sinha on relating to \u2018reverse nepotism\u2019<\/p>\n

In System, Neha comes from a family of lawyers. Her father (played by Ashutosh Gowariker) is one of the country’s top defence lawyers, but wants his daughter to prove herself by working as a prosecutor before she can join the family business. It even leads Neha to ask her dad, \u201cWhat kind of reverse nepotism is this?\u201d Sonakshi says this mirrors her life story to an extent, as her father, veteran star Shatrughan Sinha<\/a>, held similar views when she began her acting journey. \u201cHonestly, that\u2019s been the case with me. My father has always told me, \u2018You have to prove yourself\u2019. Because he was like that. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are; you have to prove yourself to get ahead in life, and that\u2019s how you get what you deserve. So that was also something that was very relatable,\u201d Sonakshi recalls.<\/p>\n

Sonakshi began her acting career opposite Salman Khan with Dabangg in 2010, and found further success with Rowdy Rathore, Son of Sardaar, and Holiday. In recent years, she has found critical acclaim with streaming shows like Dahaad and Heeramandi. Her next film, System, will release on Amazon Prime Video on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a career spanning over 15 years, actor Sonakshi Sinha has worked in a variety of films and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5318,49,48,75,337,21659,249013,89412,10927,2550],"class_list":["post-677277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-nepotism","tag-reverse-nepotism","tag-shatrughan-sinha","tag-sonakshi-sinha","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}