{"id":114054,"date":"2025-10-31T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:18:07","slug":"farah-khan-recalls-fathers-battle-with-alcoholism-and-familys-struggle-for-survival-we-started-selling-flats-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114054\/","title":{"rendered":"Farah Khan recalls father\u2019s battle with alcoholism and family\u2019s struggle for survival: \u2018We started selling flats\u2019 | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Farah TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to alcohol addictionFarah Khan<\/a> may be one of Bollywood\u2019s most fun and fearless stars today, a hit filmmaker, top choreographer and a YouTube favourite, but her life was not always this bright. Long before she directed big films like \u2018Main Hoon Na\u2019 and \u2018Om Shanti Om\u2019, she also faced some very dark days. She grew up in a broken home, watched her family lose everything, and learned to survive with very little. <\/p>\n

Farah Khan recalls her family\u2019s downfall<\/p>\n

Farah\u2019s childhood was far from easy. Her father, Kamran Khan, was once a successful film producer. But when his films stopped doing well, everything began to fall apart. During a chat with her best friend, Sania Mirza<\/a> on her podcast \u2018Serving It Up With Sania\u2019, Farah spoke about the harsh reality of her family\u2019s life during those years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was uncertain. We had a whole floor and then we started selling flats. Finally, we came to a one hall and one bedroom, after coming from five bedrooms and a huge hall, which he couldn\u2019t sell because they were under my mom\u2019s name. So that hall, in the afternoon, that was given to the people to come and play cards,\u201d she said.That small source of income became their only hope. \u201cThose Rs 30-35 were used to buy milk for the next day, little bhaaji and my dad\u2019s quarter or half bottle. If they didn\u2019t come to play for whatever reason, there was no milk for the next day. If two extra people came, we used to get excited that now we will get mutton today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farah Khan opens up about living hand to mouth<\/p>\n

The \u2018Tees Maar Khan\u2019 director described how her family lived from one day to the next, never knowing what tomorrow would bring. \u201cIt was literally that hand to mouth. It\u2019s a very depressive place to come back from. To see my dad like that, I can smell alcohol so well whenever I travel, it triggers a childhood memory for me. I used to stay in the college till 6:30-7 so that I didn\u2019t have to go home. Till now, I am insecure about money. I understood why my dad took to alcohol.<\/p>\n

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Even as a teenager, Farah did not have the luxury of taking life easy. She also spoke about how she decided to try something new when she started her YouTube channel. It began as a fun idea that quickly became a hit.\u201cAs you grow older, you care less about things. At that time, I had just finished a new script of a film that I want to make, and I knew I had to wait for two more years. I didn\u2019t want to be angsty and wake up with uncertainty everyday, have done that in my young days. I thought I\u2019ll just try doing YouTube, I didn\u2019t plan it and something about it hit the bullseye,\u201d she said.DISCLAIMER: If you or someone you know is struggling with alcohol abuse, please seek help from available helplines or support organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to alcohol addictionFarah Khan may be one of Bollywood\u2019s most fun and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[68935,68932,321,93,3217,68931,68933,68937,61,60,68939,68934,68936,68938],"class_list":["post-114054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alcohol-addiction-effects","tag-alcohol-recovery-resources","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-farah-khan","tag-farah-khan-alcoholism","tag-farah-khan-childhood-struggle","tag-farah-khan-youtube-channel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kamran-khan-film-producer","tag-overcoming-childhood-trauma","tag-sania-mirza","tag-sania-mirza-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}